Commentary Series
Commentary Series
Gilbert: Henry V at 600
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It’s rare that one can note a 600th anniversary, but Peter Gilbert says it was six hundred years ago today that England’s Henry V became king upon the death of his father, Henry IV.Commentary Series
Gilbert: The Fire Next Time
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In January 1963, fifty years ago, the great American writer James Baldwin published a famous book entitled The Fire Next Time. According to Peter Gilbert, it was a profoundly influential statement about race relations in the midst of the Civil Rights movement.Commentary Series
Gilbert: Frost’s Final Days
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Robert Frost died fifty years ago tomorrow at the age of eighty-eight. Here’s Peter Gilbert to tell us about the last days of a man that scholars generally now recognize as one of America’s greatest poets.Commentary Series
Gilbert: Blizzard
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With the return of wintry weather, parents once again have to plan ahead for days when their children may be released from school early due to impending weather, out of concern for their safety. It’s a necessity that’s reminded Peter Gilbert of how a tremendously powerful winter storm once swept across the northern plains – with the most dire of consequences.Commentary Series
Gilbert: Emancipation
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Peter Gilbert observes that New Year’s Day one hundred and fifty years ago was unlike any other in American history. With the stroke of a pen, four million humans stopped being under the law pieces of property owned by other people. The slaves in the Confederacy won their freedom.Commentary Series
Brunch Sampler: Peter Gilbert
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At the Commentator Brunch earlier this year, for Peter Gilbert, the theme – "When Worlds Collide" – was all about the Civil War.Commentary Series
Gilbert: The Halifax Disaster
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This time of year, the sight of truckloads of Christmas trees on the highway headed south, remind Peter Gilbert of the story of Boston’s Christmas tree. It ‘s a powerful story that goes back exactly ninety-five years to Halifax, Nova Scotia and the first World War.Commentary Series
Gilbert: Whitman’s Election Day
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It’s been said that you campaign in poetry and govern in prose. And as the country prepares to vote once again, commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert tells us about a timely poem written by one of America’s greatest poets.Commentary Series
