Join us for a Vermont Humanities Reading and Discussion Series with Elayne Clift

Outsiders: Those Who Fell Outside the Cultural Norm

This discussion series examines the treatment of populations outside the cultural norms of the late 19th and early 20th century America. The books cover the historical conditions and treatments of Native Americans, women deemed mentally ill and locked away, and those considered developmentally handicapped, mentally handicapped and/or genetically inferior.

Tuesday, October 17, 1pm - 2:30pm
David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928

Tuesday, November 14, 1pm - 2:30pm
Nancy Gallagher, Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State

Tuesday, December 19, 1pm - 2:30pm
James W. Trent Jr., Inventing the Feeble Mind

Tuesday, January 23, 1pm - 2:30pm
Jeffery Geller and Maxine Harrison, Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls

Elayne Clift is an award-winning writer, journalist, lecturer, and workshop leader. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and various other magazines, periodicals and anthologies. She has published two memoirs, two books of poetry, three short story collections, three essay collections and three edited anthologies.

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Event Info

Sep 19, 2024, 10 AM to 12 PM

Sep 21, 2024, 8 AM to 1 PM

Sep 25, 2024, 6 to 7:30 PM