Ethan Allen Homestead Museum - Enrichment Program for May

Past event
May 16, 2021, 2 PM

(Note: Although Covid restrictions are being reduced, The Homestead is not quite ready to host an in-person talk.)

"Religion and Society on the Vermont Frontier"
May 16th - 2:00 pm

Join us as Shelby Balik, from Metropolitan State University-Denver presents on the connections between society and religion on Vermont's frontier.

Streaming at https://ethanallenhomestead.org/programs/lecture-series/

Shelby M. Balik is an associate professor of history at Metropolitan State University of Denver, specializing in early American history and American religious history. She holds degrees from Brown University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography (Indiana University Press, 2014), which won the Best First Book Award from Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society. Her next book, "Family Religion: The Politics of Practice in Early American Households" will provide a religious history of family life in the long eighteenth century. She is also co-editing a digital and print collection of records from the first Moravian church in eighteenth-century New York City.

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Special thanks to the sponsors who made this series possible: People's United Bank: www.peoples.com and Rice Lumber: www.ricelumber.com

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