Currently we live in one of the most divisive times in American history. However, the past is full of politically charged moments that still resonate with us today as documented by the Sheldon Museum’s archival collections. *** The (Un)Settled Question An editorial in the Oct. 31, 1860, issue of the Middlebury Register reads: “It has been asserted by Southern presses that Vermont is a bagatelle, and might as well be out of the Union as in it. …[N]ext Tuesday…let them be assured that she is in the Union, an … (read more)
