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Research Papers & Presentations
Agriculture Barlow, F. Rendol – The Effect of Rising Land Values on the Vermont Dairy Industry, 1964-1974. 1980. (Senior Thesis)
Belanus, Betty Jane – They Lit Their Cigars with Five Dollar Bills: The History of the Merino Sheep Industry in Addison County. 1976.
Brady, Alison – Vermont Dairy Farming and the Impact of Dairy Cooperatives on the Industry. 2006 Senior Thesis
Comai, Christopher – The Addison County Agricultural Society and the Development of VT 1818-1823. 1985.
Dow, Ben. – Farming and Technology in Vermont. 2000.
Duncan, Suzanne – The Role of the Merino in the Sheep and Woolen Industries of VT. 1986. (Senior Thesis)
Hamlet, Penny – “Pre-Progressivism” Farm Activism in VT from 1870-1900. 1986. (Senior Thesis)
Krashes, Peter – The Role of Agriculture in Middlebury, VT 1890-1896. 1985. (Senior Thesis)
Ostler, Thomas – “The Right Place, The Wrong Time” – An Examination of the Decline of the Vermont Sheep Industry 1840-1850. 1981.
Pulsifier, Tom – Middlebury in 1816. 1981.
Richardson, David – The Rise of Farm Organization in Vermont. 1968. (Senior Thesis)
Rosane, Megan – The History of the Merino Sheep Industry in Vermont and the James Family. 1981.
Shipman, Kathryn – The Effects of the Summer of 1816 on the People of Middlebury. 1980.
Arts and Architecture Abbott, John V. – The Greek Revival Style in Middlebury: Domestic Architecture. 1973.
Allwarden, Kathryn – Victorian Commercial Buildings. 1976.
Anderson, Townsend H. – Lavius Filmore. 1974.
Anderson, Townsend H. and Christina Fraoli – Nineteenth Century Architects and Builders of the Town of Middlebury, Vermont. 1973.
Auwaerter, John – Middlebury College Campus Architecture and Planning: Starr Library. 1987.
Bentley, William – Unbuilt Middlebury: A Chronological Commentary. 1987.
Bisacca, George – High Victorian Buildings in Middlebury in the Late 1870’s and Early 1880’s: A Selection Focusing on the Work of Clinton Smith. 1976.
Brauerman, David – 4 Weybridge St. 1992.
Bressor, Gary – Lavius Filmore. 1985.
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Arts and Architecture cont’d
Brunell, Martha and David M. Watts – Vermont Victoriana of Middlebury Mansards Et. Al. 1973.
Buchanan, Cathryn – The Mystery of Brandon’s Builders (1761 – 1861). 1977. (In two parts.)
Burditt, Timothy H. – An Architectural History of the Village of Bristol, Vermont in the 19th Century. 1976.
Burditt, Timothy H. – Middlebury Architecture 1850 – 1870. 1976.
Cahill, Caitlin – Keeping Time in the Green Mountain State: Vermont Clocks 1800- 1850. 1991.
Clarke, James L. – Architectural History of the Middlebury Inn. 1974.
Clarke, James – The Family Tree of the Congregational Church of Middlebury. 1972.
Clifford, Deborah P. – The Building of St. Mary’s Church in Middlebury, VT 1892- 1907. 1986.
Connors, Stephanie – The Architecture of Clinton G. Smith as a Physical Manifestation of the Ideals Present in Post-Civil War Middlebury. 1978.
Crater, Jeffrey C. – An Architectural History of the Women’s Campus, 1915 – 1987. 1987.
Delaney, Alison – The Vermont Hotel. 1978.
DeRosa, Ann – The John Warren House. 1977.
Devlin, William – Vergennes Falls Lithograph. 1979.
Dewey, Grant – Middlebury Black Marble Fireplace of the Greek Revival Era. 1983.
Gingras, Casey – Bristol Houses and Population, Are They Related?. 1997? (High school student paper)
Gohdes-Baton, Betsy – Wallpaper Layers through Time: From the Willmarth Homestead, Addison, Vermont. 1992.
Grace, Erin – Middlebury’s Victorian Courthouse. 1996.
Graf, Nancy Price – A Student’s Guide to the Sheldon Museum and Its Collections. 1978.
Hall, Richard – Middlebury College Architecture 1900- 1917. 1976.
Hanson, Pamela – The First Century of Architecture in Middlebury, Vermont. 1971. (2 copies)
Harris, Polly – 2 Franklin Street: Amasa Stewart’s Hotel. 1983.
Hasley, William – Exterior Details in Middlebury Houses Pre-1840. 1974.
Hill, Suzanne – Cataloguing: Post-Colonial Doorways in Middlebury. 1974.
Jackson, “Cappy” – Industry Is Born in Middlebury. 1976.
Jacob, Judith M. – The Stick Style in Middlebury. 1976.
Jacobson, Karen – Early School Architecture in Middlebury. 1973.
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Arts and Architecture cont’d
Johnston, Sydney – The Years of Transition. 2001.
Jones, Robert O. – Middlebury Stores. 1973.
Jones, Robert O. – Clinton G. Smith (not a paper)
Keller, Elizabeth and George Jones – Middlebury’s First Frame House: Bela Sawyer’s House (17 High Street). 1980.
Kerney, John, Danny Shaw and Janie Ramsay – Phelps House: 89 Main Street, Middlebury. 1980.
Kissinger, Lisa and Malcolm Koolen – A Study of the Storrs-Turner House. 1980.
Kraham, Robin A. – Public Architecture: Middlebury Vermont in the Victorian Era. 1976.
LaBau, Peter – In Pursuit of an Origin for the Middlebury Doorway. 1976.
Ladd, Woody, Sara Meyer, and Nancy Price – A Catalogue of Interior Detail of Middlebury Architecture Pre-1850. 1974.
Lennon, Charles – Compilation of Research on Middlebury Domestic Architecture Prior to 1820. 1973.
Lennon, Charles – A Summary of Historical Research on Lavius Filmore. 1974.
Lindblad, Tim – Middlebury in the 1870’s and 1880’s: French Second Empire. 1976.
Lloyd, Alice B. – Middlebury Architecture of the 1890’s: An Evaluation. 1976.
Loewenson, Carol – Post-Colonial Architecture – Focusing on its Development in Middlebury. 1981.
Loveys, James B. The Gagne House: An Historic House in Weybridge. 1980.
Marvelli, Kevin A. – Mead Chapel Row: An Overview.
McDowell, Kim and Anne Dohna – Stonecrop Ledge. 1980.
Mehm, Edward F. – Middlebury Language Buildings. 1987.
Menagh, Melanie and David Braverman – 27 Weybridge St.: A Somewhat Specious History of Early Middlebury Aesthetics. 1986.
Mitchell, Betsy – East Middlebury: First Half of the Nineteenth Century. 1981.
Morrison, F. Scott – James M. Lamb: A Greek Revival Architect in Addison County. 1977.
Morrison, Scott – Samuel McIntire: Architect of Salem, Massachusetts. 1976.
Morrison, Scott – Middlebury Architecture Before 1840. 1974.
Morrison, Scott – Vermont Georgian Houses. 1977.
Moseley, Bruce – Sheep Farmers and their Houses. 1979.
Moseley, Bruce – A View of Middlebury Falls. 1979.
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Arts and Architecture cont’d Murphy, Bill – Middlebury: Fifteen Years in the Life of a Town, July 1970- July 1985. (2 copies)
Nelson, Steve – Early Twentieth Century Domestic Architecture in Middlebury. 1976.
Nichols, Arthur B. – Middlebury Doorways. 1974.
Panitz, Amy – Vergennes Architecture 1780-1840. 1977.
Pattee, Craig L. – Fraternities at Middlebury: Chi Psi, Delta Upsilon, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Sigma Phi Epsilon. 1987.
Peters, Natalie D. – The American One-Room Schoolhouse: A Descriptive, Analytic Study of a Community Vernacular Building Artifact In Addison County, Vermont, 1790-1858. 1997.
Pope, Spencer – First Courthouse of Addison County. 1996.
Raymond, Elizabeth H. – An Architectural Analysis: Pearson Hall, Adirondack House, and Battell Hall, 1987.
Reichenboch, Heidi and Chris Axelson – The Painter House of Middlebury, Vermont. 1980.
Riegel, Richard E. III – The Development of Winter Athletics at Middlebury. 1987.
Ross, Ian – A Town History of Middlebury, Vermont. 2002.
Safford, John E.A. – Academy Building Research. 1987.
Salisbury, Lisa – Early Middlebury Bricks. 1980.
Seybolt, G. Crossan – Charter House: An In-Depth Investigation of the Development of an Early American House. 1977.
Seybolt, G. Crossan – It’s Gothic, It’s Italianite; You’re Both Wrong, It’s Greek or Gothic Architecture in Middlebury From 1850-187? 1976.
Stone, E.M. – Old Stone Row: Painter Hall, Old Chapel, Starr Hall. 1987.
Tansey, David – A History of the Painter-Wainwright House. 1987.
Taylor, Laurie S. and John A. Silverman – The Federation House 1805-1980: A Masterpiece in the Federal Style. 1980.
Teetor, Katherine – Portrait of David Nichols, Jr. 1987.
Truslow, Anne – The Role of the Nineteenth Century Itinerant and Portrait Painter in Establishing American Art. 1988.
Van Praagh, Alex and Andrew Krastzer – Sheldon Museum: Proposal for Adaptive and Additional Facilities. 1986.
Venne, Gregory R. – Middlebury’s First Half Century: A Survey of Architecture in the Foote Street Area, 1974.
Waldsmith, John – Mementoes of Home: The Photographic Legacy of A.F. Styles. 1979.
Weels, Craig – St. Stephen’s Church. 1978.
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Arts and Architecture cont’d Willard, Bruce – Church Architecture In Middlebury, VT 1826-1920. 1976.
Wilson, Kim – Early Settlement in the Farmingdale or Seeley District Settlement. 1978.
Commerce and Trade (See also Industry) Cheng, Chris – The Quaintification of Middlebury, VT: A Cultural Geography Approach. 2001.
Cyr, Tina – Modern Advertising Techniques of the 1830’s. 1982. (High school student paper)
Darnell, Polly – History of Printing in Middlebury, VT, 1801-Present.
Darnell, Polly – Jonathan Hagar’s Bookstore, Middlebury, VT.
Donelan, Jamie – Economic Relationships between Middlebury College and Middlebury Town. 1999.
Ferland, Tom – Advertising in Middlebury During the 1830’s and 1880’s. 1982. (High school student paper)
Hocker, Frederick – The Development of the Sailing Carrying Trade on Lake Champlain, 1742-1823. 1984 (Senior Thesis)
Hosley, William A. – The Economic History of Middlebury: 1790-1816. 1976.
Korot, Mia – Fires in Middlebury, Changes in Layout, Landscape and Architecture. 2000.
Kvasnak, Meghan – Middlebury 1830-1850: A Transitional Stage. 1985 (Senior Thesis)
Noonan, Chip – The Role of the Entrepreneur in Middlebury’s Business Community. 1981.
Paul, Chris – Commercial and Retail Changes – 1960 to Present. 2000.
Prescott, John – Food in the 1930’s: A Slice of American Life in the Great Depression. 2000.
Saliba, Peter – Middlebury’s Entrance into the Domestic Economy, 1790-1830. 1989. (Senior Thesis)
Sleeper, Buck – Pedestrian Web and Development of Downtown Middlebury. 2004. (Independent Project, Middlebury College)
Watson, Ann – The Function of the Tavern in Addison County, VT, 1790-1845. 1975.
Domestic Life Barron, Claire – Divorce: Eighteen Hundreds Style. 1985.
Hattori, Andrew – Using Oral History to Learn about the Telephone. 2000.
LaBau, Peter – Textile Equipment. 1977.
Miller, Pam – Marriage and the Stewart Family. 1982. (High school student paper)
Morgan, Donald H. – The Farm Bull. 1987.
Morgan, Donald H. – One Chance In a Thousand. 1986.
Salomon, Ronald – Letters of the Robinson Children . 1997.
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Education (See Arts and Architecture for papers on school buildings) Blagden, Ann W. – Early Days in Middlebury: A Bibliography for Use In Elementary Schools. 1979.
Hillier, Amy – Who Should Attend to Everybody’s Business? Democracy in Middlebury’s Schools. 1992 (Nuquist Award)
Hills, Tim – Sketches of Two Addison County District Teachers in the 1820’s. 1982. (High school student paper)
Hubbart, Richard – History of Early Middlebury Education. 1998
McKinnon, Janet – (teacher) Mary Hogan Challenge Program (Grades 3, 4,& 5): Photography as History. 1986.
Pidgeon, Jennifer – The Academic and Social Lives of Middlebury College Coeds in the 1920’s. 1996.
Reilly, Megan – The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of Catholic Education: St. Mary’s School, Middlebury, Vermont.
Rucker, Chris – A Study of Three Primers. 1982. (High school student paper)
Ryan, Terry – The Exclusive Middlebury Female Seminary of 1836. 1982. (High school student paper)
Shulman, Jason – Antebellum Middlebury: Vermont’s Educational Center. 1992. (Senior Thesis)
Simons, Steve – Education as Reflected Through Morals. 1982. (High school student paper)
Swanson, Janet – English Infant Schools & Primary Education in Middlebury, Vermont. 1977. (Senior Thesis)
Environment and Natural Resources Eccleston, Duncan T. – Otter Creek: The Changing Vision of a Middlebury Resource. 1995. (Senior Thesis)
Goldwarg, Eric – Man Who Buys Mountains: An Environmental History of Bread Loaf and the Joseph Battell Lands. 1999.
Holmes, Marion E. – Chipman Hill, Middlebury, Vermont. 1986.
Health Care and Medicine Brown, Theodore G., Jr. – The Delivery of Health Care in Addison County During the Nineteenth Century. 1997.
Condon, Rhianon. Medicine from 1800 to 1850. 2000.
Erb, Susan – Personal Documentation – Consumption in Middlebury, VT 1847-1886. 1985.
Hollingsworth, Pierce – Opiate Use in Vermont 1810-1914. 1976. (Senior Thesis)
Kelly, Sarah – The Founding of Porter Hospital, Middlebury, Vermont. 1991. (Senior Thesis)
Li, Yong – Patent Medicine. 2000.
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Health Care and Medicine Long, Derek R. – The Spanish Lady “Forgotten”: American Historical Memory and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. 2008. (Senior Thesis)
Platt, Holly – A Case Study of Porter Medical Center: Charles Perrow’s Theory of Hospital Administration Applied. 1978. (Senior Thesis)
Long, Derek – The Spanish Lady “Forgotten.” American Historical Memory and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. 2009 (Senior Thesis)
Industry Bullock, Edward – Electrical Power Generation on East Bank of Middlebury Falls. 1980.
Burchard, Charlie – The Decline of the Woolen Industry in Middlebury, VT. 1986.
Burrow, Phil – Wool Dyers of 1848: Their Relation to Middlebury Manufacturing Company Factory. 1982. (High school student paper)
Carbonetti, Jill – New England in the World’s Wool Industry. 1982. (High school student paper)
Carlisle, L. Diana – Champlain Glass Company: Burlington’s First Manufacturing Enterprise. 1997.
Coan, John – The Marble Industry in Middlebury. 1995.
Darnell, Polly – Attitudes of 19th and Early 20th Century Factory Workers.
Diemar, Thomas – Model of a Cotton Mill. 2000.
Gade, Hilarie – Brown Novelty Company. n.d.
Harper, Roger – General History of the Vermont Co-Operative Fire Insurance Association, 1958-1982. 1983. (Senior Thesis)
Keeler, Joann – The Addison County Fair: Agrarian Reactions to Industrial Trends. 1991. (Senior Thesis)
Knab, Rich – Jonathan Wheelock’s Cotton Mill. 1984.
Kreiger, Thomas – West Bank of Middlebury Falls. 1980.
O’Hara, Patrick – Efficiency: The Business Transactions of William F. Goodrich, 1854-1859).
Peleszak, Christine M. – The Abandonment of Leicester Hollow. 1984.
Reynolds, Stephen – Boat Building in Burlington. 1974.
Russo, Dominick – Electric Lights and Waterworks in the Village of Middlebury, Vermont: 1890-1891. 1986.
Shepard, Nate – A Historical View of Starksboro’s Mills Through David Ferguson’s Forge 1840’s – 1870’s. 1996. (High school student paper)
Taylor, Sam – Middle Ground. (High school student paper) 1997?
Templeton, Peter H. – The Monkton Iron Co., 1807-1816. 1980.
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Industry, cont’d Templeton, Peter H. – Glassmaking in Addison County. 1978.
Truax, Marjorie – A History of Mills, Bristol, Lincoln, New Haven, Starksboro. 1997? (High school student paper)
Law Burchard, Charlie – The 18th Amendment in Vermont. 1987. (Senior Thesis)
Dittmar, Peter – Crime and Punishment in Early Middlebury. 1996.
Gibson, Kristen – History of Jails in Middlebury. 1996.
Lyons, Jonathan – Index for 19th Century County Court and Supreme Court Records, Addison County Courthouse, Middlebury. 1981.
Pligavko, Michael – Crime and Criminals in Addison County. 1996.
Teetor, Kay – Dugald Stewart and the Practice of Law in 19th Century Middlebury. 2000.
Wallace, Bob – Stop, Thief! A Study of the Addison and Bridport Thief Detecting Society. 1986.
Military Affairs Eling, Daniel – The Lake Champlain Squadron. 1998? (High school student paper)
Fisher, Allan – Vermont’s Response to the Opening of the Civil War and the First Call for Troops. 1975.
Fisher, Allan – Vermont’s Response During the Civil War to Emancipation and President’s Proclamation. 1975.
Johnson, Matthew – The Tradition Continues: The Service of Vermonters During the Vietnam War. 1992.
MacGowan, David – A Study of Civil War Correspondence. 1985.
Murphy, Mary Anna – Roger Stevens, Jr.: Vermont Loyalist and British Spy. 1988.
Nelson, Sarah – Company F, 1st U.S. Sharpshooters. 1997. (High school student paper)
Stinson, Conor – Children Soldiers in the American Civil War. 2001 (High school independent study)
Stinson, Conor – An Exploration of Vermont’s Contribution to the American Civil War. 2000. (High school independent study)
Woodard, Sarah – The Soldier’s Economy of the Civil War. 1991.
Music Cockrell, Dale (class) – Music in Rutland, VT. 1982.
Cockrell, Dale (class) – History of Music in Middlebury 1820-1885 and 1800 - 1885. 1980 projects.
Cockrell, Dale (class) – History of Music 1814 – 1855. 1983 project
Downs, Jonathan – The Role of Music in the Region – Changes. 2000.
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Politics (Papers on the Underground Railroad and the social effects of Abolitionism are filed under Social Organization and Activity; those dealing with Abolitionism in relation to religion are filed under Religion.)
Bowie, Chester – A 1912 History of the Vermont Progressive Party. 1967. (Senior Thesis)
Cheng, Lisa – The Formation of Addison County and the Designation of its Shire Town. 1996.
Coffey, Raymond – Gamaliel Painter vs. Daniel Foot. 2000.
Cohen, Joel – William Slade: The Moral Crusade for Anti-Masonry and Anti-Slavery 1829-1848. 1982.
Dalton, Brian – Snake Mountain Farm: Case History and Context. 1991. (Senior Thesis)
Gauthier, Ronald – The Rise and Organization of the Temperance Crusade in Vermont, 1791-1833. 1977. (Senior Thesis)
Inglis, Jeff – The Korean War & Truman’s Dismissal of MacArthur: Vermont’s Reaction. 1993.
Kirby, John – Vermont Patriotism: A Study of Public Opinion Prior to World War I. 1968. (Senior Thesis)
Klein, Lawrence – Lawkeepers and Their Role in Vermont and Middlebury History. 1996.
Larabee, June – Vergennes, Vermont 1807 – 1817: Caught in the Web of National Affairs. 1986. (Senior Thesis)
Lowman, Melissa – Middlebury During the Civil War: A Local Reaction to the Issue of Slavery. 1986.
Martel, Sarah - The New Deal in Addison County. 1990. (Senor Thesis)
McNichol, June – Vermonters’ Reaction to the Civil War. n.d.
Miran, Karl – William Slade and the Dilemma of the Reform Strategy 1829-1848. 1976.
Naylor, Jennifer - “Talking ‘Bout a Revolution”: Student Protest During the Vietnam Era at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont. 1992. (Senior Thesis)
Perry, Christina – The Rise of Organized Abolitionist Activity in Addison County, 1833-1836.
Seymore, E.L. – Duty and the Beast: Vermont Post Bellum Approaches to the Color Problem in the U.S. as Reflected in the Middlebury Register and the Records of the Vermont Colonization Society. 1972. (Senior Thesis)
Smith, Deborah A. – Middlebury’s Reaction to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950’s. 1981.
Smith, Deborah – Vermont’s Reaction to Nuclear Power. 1983. ( Senior Thesis)
Weeks, Grier – The Abolition Movement in Middlebury. 1980.
White, Laura – Abolitionism in the Middlebury Area. 1985.
Whiting, David – The Reaction of the Addison County, Vermont to the War of 1812: How a Small County was Indicative of the New England Response to the War. 1991.
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Population Darnell, Polly – Guide to County Information in U.S.Census Reports, 1790-1890.
Emilo-Webb , Roxanna – Italian Immigrants in Vermont. 1991.
Hawkins, Martha – Vermont Indians in Vermont Historiography. 1982. (Senior Thesis)
Harvey, Patricia – Abby Maria Hemenway and the Vermont Historical Gazeteer. 1978.
Hickock, Betsey – “To a Young Woman Voyaging.” n.d.
Oleet, Jason A. – Fortune Favors the Brave. 2000.
Pearson, Jennifer – Letters from the Midwest, 1825-1850: Middlebury Emigrants and the “Frontier Spirit.” 1980. (Senior Thesis)
St.Peter, Mitchell – Middlebury Response to the California Gold Rush.
Vuillet, Heather Ann – Irish Immigrants in Middlebury, VT., 1850-1870. 1981. (Senior Thesis)
Religion Allison, Eliz – The Ministry of S. Avery Shepard in Montgomery, ALA., 1858-1865.
Castner, Timothy – The Revival of 1886 and the Rise and Fall of the Middlebury YMCA. 1991.
Dillon, Dixie – Catholic American or American Catholic? 2005.
Knab, Richard – Congregationalism in Middlebury During the Second Great Awakening. 1986. (Senior Thesis)
Lewandowski, Keith – The 1830’s Revivals in Middlebury: A Bittersweet Success. 1995.
McKenna, Anne Marie – Asaph Drake and His Community Compared in Relation to Religion. 1982. (High school student paper)
Mendelsohn, Aaron – Success and Tradition: A Social History of Jewish Family Life in Rural Vermont 1880-1920. 1994.
Merrill, James – A Pastor, a President, and an Itinerant Preacher: The Effort to Preserve Revivalism and Promote Religion Among the Younger Generation in Middlebury, Vermont in the 1830’s. 1993.
Nelson, Kelli – Religion: A Force in Nineteenth Century Vermont. 1982. (High school student paper)
Neuberger, Mary Alice – God and Religion Seen as the Central Focus of the lives of 1830’s Americans. 1982. (High school student paper)
Pedro, DeAnna – Religion: The Cause for Freeing the Slaves. 1982. (High school student paper)
Schurman, Linda – Early 19th Century Religious Revivalism in
Swier, Naomi – Anti-Slavery in Vermont. 1997.
Woltemade, Christopher – Life as a Missionary. 1982. (High school student paper)
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Science and Technology Fraser, Kathleen – Three Major Fires of Middlebury. 1982. (High school student paper)
Hefferman, Michael – Great Middlebury Fire – 1891. 1980.
Johnsen, Keith – Basic Preventive and Corrective Care of Library Materials. 1977.
Johnson, Nathan – Rising from the Ashes: Benevolence, the Media, and Rebirth in Nineteenth Century Middlebury, Vermont. 1997.
Jordon, Joan – Coin Silver: A Key to the Past Through Local Silversmiths. 1988.
Sharp, Hope – Inadequate Fire Protection in Middlebury, Vermont. 1982. (High school student paper)
Spring, Jackie – Fire Builds Morale. 1997.
Social Organization & Activity Baker, Elizabeth – The Shifting Focus of the Middlebury Community as Evidenced by the Primers of 1777 to 1883. 1982. (High school student paper)
Benoit, Robin – Leisure Life in Middlebury 1889-1895. 1985.
Bridges, Emily – Etiquette of Courtship and Marriage in the 1800’s. 1982. (High school student paper)
Brooks, Kip – Vermont: Slavery and the Underground Railroad. 1981.
Bruch, Josh – Letter Writing Guides of the Nineteenth Century as a Key to the Code of Life. 1982. (High school student paper)
Bullock, Victoria – The Myth of the Vermont Underground Railroad with specific reference to the Life and Works of Rowland Thomas Robinson and Rowland Evans Robinson. 1996.
Charbonneau, Dan – Newspapers. 1982. (High school student paper)
Chick, Sarah – Community and Conflict: the Impact of the Civil War on Middlebury. 1992. (Senior Thesis)
Darnell, Polly – The Founding of the Sheldon Museum. 1980.
De Laney, John – Vermont State Temperance: A Reach for the Unachievable. 1982. (H.S. student paper)
Eccleston, Duncan – Social Concerns of Anti-Masonry. 1994.
Erwin, Emily – The Anti-Slavery Society in Addison County, VT. 1998. (High school student paper)
Fitzsimmons, Brendan – Bicycling in Addison County in the 1890’s. 1993.
Fitzsimmons, Brendan – Tourism in Addison County 1830-1930. 1995. (Senior Thesis)
Fitzsimmons, Elizabeth W. – The Changing World of Middlebury’s Seymour Family: Social and Economic Transitions in the 1830’s. 2000.
Ginevan, Douglas W. – Changing Needs: A Case Study of Philanthropy in Addison County, Vermont.
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Social Organization & Activity, cont’d Holler, Christine – Life in Middlebury in the 1880’s. 1982. (High school student paper)
Ives, Michael – A “Practical Mystic?” Analyzing Rowland T. Robinson’s Moral Paradox 2004.
James, Erin – America’s Feelings on the Civil War. 1998?.
Kireker, Sally – Catalog of Sheldon’s Photo Collection (as of 1978). (High school student paper)
Kline, Margaret C. – Modernity and Morality: Middlebury in the 1920’s. 1992.
Kline, Margaret C. – The Right to Recreate and the Attempt to Amuse: Recreation and Leisure in Addison County. 1994. (Senior Thesis)
Mason, Sandra – Writing Letters the Nineteenth Century Way. 1982. (High school student paper)
Matt & Keely – Ode to the Creemees of Addison County. 2001.
Mincher, Amy – Religion and Patriotism in Middlebury, 1842-1905: The Traditions of Forefathers’ Day and Memorial Day. 2009.
McLaughlin, Liza – Total Abstinence. 1982. (High school student paper)
Mincher, Amy – Religion and Patriotism in Middlebury, 1842-1905: The Traditions of Forefathers’ Day and Memorial Day. 2007
Morrill, Jeff – The Vermont Temperance Movement in the 1850’s. 1982. (High school student paper)
Mullin, Jason – The Anti-Slavery Society of Middlebury, Vermont. 1982. (High school student paper)
Norse, Angela – The Abolition Movement in Addison County. 1997? (High school student paper)
Ralph, Jim – Botts is Back. 2001.
Reafs, Sara – Leisure Activities in the 19th Century. 1985.
Richman, Deborah – The Country Weekly as an Historic Mirror: A Case Study of the Middlebury Register, 1870-1910. 1982. (Senior Thesis)
Robison, Blake – Entertainment Novelties of the 1880’s. 1982. (High school student paper)
Salomon, Ronald J. – Being Good: An Abolitionist Family Attempts to Live up to Its Own Standards. 1997.
Schatz, Daniel J. – Stability Amidst Turmoil: Middlebury, Vermont, 1865-1880. 1994. (Senior Thesis)
Schwartz, Amy D. – New Anxieties: Vermont Farmers and the Industrial Revolution, 1830-1860.
Scola, Paul – Baseball: The Apple of America’s Pie. 1990.
Sommers, Mike – Etiquette and Manners of the 1840’s. 1982. (High school student paper)
Stiefel, Edith – But What Did They Do for Fun? Or the Recreation Possibilities in Addison County c. 1800’s. 1986.
Torella, Andrea – Destiny’s Identity: A Small Town’s Struggle to Survive the Forces of the Outside World. 1988.
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Social Organization & Activity, cont’d Winters, Beth – Attitudes of Three Newspaper’s to the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Vermont. 1986.
Winters, Beth – Attitudes of Three Newspaper’s on Women’s Suffrage. 1986.
Wolfman, Matt – The (Not-so) Great Depression in Middlebury, Vermont. 1993.
Wright, Jessica – The Legend and History of the Underground Railroad in Vermont. 1996.
Transportation and Communication Cook, Timothy – The Politics of Beauty: History of Roadside Advertisement Control in Vermont. 1983.
Cross, Heather – The Effect of the Transportation Revolution on the Middlebury Marble Manufacturing Company, 1803-1837. 1982. (Senior Thesis)
Duncan, Suzanne – The Center Turnpike Company, January 1801-September 1869. 1985.
Gyory, Andy – A Bridge is Built (Middlebury, VT. 1893). 1977.
Krashes, Peter – The Otter Creek Bridge: A Monument to Improvement. 1984.
Kvasnak, Meghan – Rutland & Burlington Railroad. 1984.
Mutterperl, John – Green Mountain Parkway to Interstate Highway: Roads and Change in Vermont. 1989. (Senior Thesis)
Smith, Denver – Bridges in Addison County. 2000.
Sturtevant, Todd R. – The History of the West Bridport Ferry. 1993.
Yeager, Mary Ann – The Big Four Packers and the Big Five Trunk Lines: A Study of Railroad Competition and Technological Progress. 1967. (Senior Thesis)
Women Bryan, Betsey – Female Mill Workers in the Davenport and Nash Mills, Middlebury, VT, 1850. 1979.
Crist, Carolyn – Mills Girls and Methodism. 1973.
Cummings, Pamela – Women and Education in New England, 1780-1820. 1991.
Darnell, Polly – Vermont Women’s Work. 1973.
Davie, Melissa – Correspondence of Lorrette E. Wolcott to George Howe. 1979.
Dionne, Francine – The Hannah Lucy Clark Case. 1981.
Dow, Elizabeth – Women’s Lot in Bristol, 1880. 1990.
Grose, Carolyn – Lorrette Wolcott & Louise Drake. 1986.
Mincher, Amy – Emma Willard & Her Fight to Educate Women. 2003.
Nichols, Lisa – Religion & Women. 1979.
Parlin, Kathy – Prescriptions for Women vs. Reality. 1981.
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Women, cont’d Reagan, Susan – Middlebury’s Mill Women. 2003.
Richardson, Nancy – Old Age as It Was Experienced by Three 19th Century Vermont Women. 1979.
Ritter, Nina – Mill Working Women and the Family Unit 1834-1851. 1986.
Shaw, Jordana E. – Vermont Women in the Midwest 1830-1860: A Study in Isolation, Devotion, and Courage. 1992. (Senior Thesis)
Todd, Eliza – Role of Women in Reform Societies. 1981.
Woodard, Sarah – Thanks to Women’s Club Work, Men Sleep Late . . . 1991.
Biographies Bartle, Marion – Rowland Thomas Robinson (1796-1879): An Anachronism for his Time. 1982. (Senior Thesis)
Beattie, Betsy – Phillip Battell as a Young Man in Jacksonian America. n.d.
Bowen, Colleen – The Value System of the Stewart Family, 1982. (High school student paper)
Buckeye, Robert – The Education of Edwin James (Class of 1816). (Paper from the Abernathy Lecture, May 3, 2007)
Burrell, John – Seth Storrs. 1989.
Choate, Jane – Ann Story: Mother of the Green Mountain Boys. 1998.
Corrigan, Elizabeth Ann – Rowland T. Robinson, Supporting his Beliefs after Leaving the Society of Friends. 1997? (High school student paper)
Clifford, Deborah – The Education of Mary Winchester.
Clifford, Sarah – Jonathan Hagar. 1982.
Daly, James – The Dilemma of Westward Expansion as Followed Through Myron Bird’s Letters. 1982. (High school student paper)
Dickinson, Page – Samuel Swift. 1989.
Garffer, Patricia – Eben Judd. 1989.
Geiger, Lori – The Judd & Harris Families of Middlebury, Vermont. 1980.
Gnuse, Karen – Emma and John Willard: The Middlebury Days. 1989.
Hosley, William – The Richards-Bryant Correspondence, 1798-1851. 1977.
Knoll, Melissa – Emerson Wright. 1996.
Lambert, Elizabeth – Jessica Stewart: A Public and Private Study. 1986. (Senior Thesis)
Lank, Heather – Life of Miss Sarah Weeks Sheldon. 1981.
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Biographies, cont’d Leeds, Greg – Revelations of George Howe’s Civil War Letters. 1982. (High school student paper)
Lucia, Ryan – One Man’s Character. 1997. (High school student paper)
Manville, Tina – Isaac Ebenezer Markham. 1989.
Ouellette, Susan – “Rendered … more ignorant than others”: Early Female Education in the Journal of Phebe Orvis”
Perks, Rebekah - Deacon Aspah Drake’s View of Religion and its Effects Upon Him. (High School Student Paper)
Randall, Amy – Horation Seymour. n.d.
Reynolds, Pam – Story of Columbus Smith & the Shard Estate. 1998.
Richardson, Megan – Hastings Warren. 1989.
Romani, Daniel – Col. John Chipman. 1989.
Rowe, Kathleen – Henry Copeland’s Religious Mission. 1982. (High school student paper)
Schurman, Linda – Rev. Thomas Merrill. 1982. (Senior Thesis)
Shortsleeve, Brittany – Hanna Reynolds. 2004.
Sternecken, Claire – Correspondence of Emma Seymour and Philip Battell. 1982.
Tabor, Laura – The Career of Daniel Chipman. 1996.
Wagner, Joann – A Dilemma, Gold Rush Letters: Myron Bird (1848-1852). 1982. (High school student paper)
White, Shane – The Soldier vs. the Man: The Confusion of George Howe as Evidenced in the Civil War Letters of George Howe to Lorette E. Wolcott 1863-1865. 1982. (High school student paper)
Wilson, Anna – John VI Warren. 1989.
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