Beyond Bennington: Vermont as a Borderland and Cultural Crossroads During the Revolution and Early Republic
Reconsidering the Revolution in Vermont as more complicated than a fight for Independence to become the Fourteenth State, Colin Calloway will focus on half a dozen individuals to provide glimpses of a world where history, experiences, loyalties, identities, and choices were not predetermined by modern political boundaries.
Colin Calloway grew up in Yorkshire in the north of England. His first teaching job was in York, but after marrying a Vermonter who wanted to practice law in the U.S. and live in Vermont, he resigned and brought her home. He taught English at Springfield High School for a few years and wrote his way into American academia. He served as assistant director and editor at the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous History at the Newberry Library in Chicago for two years, and then moved to the University of Wyoming, where he taught for seven years. For five of those years, he commuted between Wyoming and Vermont. In 1995, he came to Dartmouth College, where he has been ever since.
He has appeared on the PBS series We Shall Remain and on Ken Burns’ most recent documentary on the American Revolution.
His books include First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of Native American History (1999; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2019; 2024); The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (2018), which was a National Book Award finalist and won the George Washington Prize; One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (2003) which won six best-book awards.
He was elected President of the American Society for Ethnohistory in 2007-08; given an award by the Missisquoi Nation of Abenakis in 1996; awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, in 2014; and received the Sarah Josepha Hale Award for distinction in literature in 2022. He has twice been honored by Dartmouth’s Native students at the annual powwow.
Brought to you by the Bennington Regional 250th Anniversary Committee, the Manchester Community Library, and the Manchester Historical Society.
