Occasional Paper Series:

Occasional Paper #1
University of Vermont Student Research on Vermont Topics, edited by Carolyn Perry, 66 pp., 1979; $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-02-0. Provides a bibliography of unpublished student research with comments by University of Vermont faculty.

Occasional Paper #2
Litigious Vermonters: Court Records to 1825, by P. Jeffrey Potash and Samuel B. Hand, 30 pp., 1979; $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-03-9. Encapsulates the findings of a National Historic Publications and Records Commission-funded project on Vermont records prior to 1825 that was sponsored by the Vermont Supreme Court.

Occasional Paper #3
Goal Setting in Planning: Myths and Realities, by Robert L. Larson, 41 pp.,1980; $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-04-7. Discusses and evaluates "rational planning models" for goal setting in educational systems with particular emphasis upon the Vermont application of these models.

Occasional Paper #4
Research and Lawmakers: A Student Perspective, edited by Barry Salussolia and David Rider, 66 pp., 1981; $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-05-5. Incorporates edited transcripts of seminars among legislators and policy analysts, exploring the interaction of research and policy making, especially legislation, presented during a Center-sponsored UVM course, "Applied Research on Vermont Topics"; includes a bibliography.

Occasional Paper #5
Social Service in Vermont: The Community and the State, by Marshall True, 28 pp., 1981, $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-06-3. Contains two papers: "Insanity, Society, and the State: Some Perspectives on Mental Health in Vermont" examines attitudes and treatment of insanity and mental health problems in Vermont; "From Relief Society to Mental Health Center: The Changing Role of the Howard in Burlington, Vermont" traces the evolution of voluntary neighborhood charities into highly specialized and institutionalized public agencies.

Occasional Paper #6
The French in Vermont: Some Current Views, by Peter Woolfson and Andre J. Senecal, 40 pp., 1983; $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-09-8. Contains two papers: Woolfson's "The Franco-Americans of Northern Vermont: Cultural Factors for Consideration by Health and Social Services Providers" discusses some of the general cultural patterns of Franco-Americans and seeks to assist health and social services practitioners, in particular, to better understand clients who share this heritage; Senecal's "Studies on Vermont/Quebec Relations: The State of the Art," a bibliographical essay, surveys a wide range of works treating Vermont/Quebec relations from a number of different perspectives and disciplines. 

Occasional Paper #7
From Ferment to Fatigue? 1870-1900: A New Look at the Neglected Winter of Vermont, by H. Nicholas Muller III, 28 pp., 1984; $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-12-8. Examines Vermont's history in the post-Civil War era and assesses the historiography of the period, finding its emphasis on decline incompatible with recent evidence; concludes by calling upon researchers to develop greater understanding of a neglected period in Vermont's past.

Occasional Paper #8
Relationships between School Taxes and Town Taxes in Vermont Local Government, by Leonard J.Tashman and Michael J. Munson, 38 pp., 1984; $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-13-6. Discusses how votr tax commitments to school and town budgets relate to each other and to a community's size and wealth.

Occasional Paper #9
The Life and Legacy of the Reverend Phinehas Bailey, by Jeffrey D. Marshall,32 pp., 1985; $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-14-4. Gives an account of the life and times of the Reverent Phinehas Bailey (1787–1861), minister, craftsman, and inventor, who is perhaps best known for the system of shorthand he developed.

Occasional Paper #10
Land Gains Taxation: The Vermont Case, by Thomas L. Daniels, 58 pp., 1986;$5.00. ISBN 0-944277-15-2. Finds that Vermont's land gains tax, which was passed in 1973 to curb land speculation and parcellation, has failed to adequately control land subdivision activity and has yielded considerably lower revenues than estimated.

Occasional Paper #11
Friends, Neighbors, and Political Allies: Reflections on the Gibson-Aiken Connection, by Samuel B. Hand, 36 pp., 1986;$5.00. ISBN 0-944277-16-0. Explores the close political and social relationship of two of Vermont's most prominent twentieth-century figures—Ernest W. Gibson, Jr. (1902–1969), and George D. Aiken (1892–1984)—as revealed through their wartime correspondence.

Occasional Paper #12
The Vermont Schoolmarm and the Contemporary One-Room Schoolhouse, by Jody Kenny, 105 pp., 1990; $9.00. ISBN 0-944277-20-9. An ethnographic study of a contemporary one-room schoolteacher. Explores topics such as the question of scale, the schoolmarm's isolation and independence, and tradition versus change; concludes with lessons learned from the one-room schoolteacher's experience.

Occasional Paper #13
A Historical Who's Who of Vermont Theatre, by George B. Bryan, 77 pp., 1991; $7.50. ISBN 0-944277-21-7. Consists of two parts: first, an essay which provides an overview of Vermont theatre history, and second, a directory of the people—from actors to playwrights to scenic artists—who collectively make up that history.

Occasional Paper #14
Confronting Statehood: A Bicentennial Series of Short Essays , by Paul S. Gillies, 107 pp., 1992; $7.00. ISBN 0-944277-23-3. Collection of 52 essays which were originally printed in the state's newspapers during the 1991 bicentennial of Vermont statehood. Gillies comments on the Vermont character and the Vermont experience as viewed with the context of statehood.

Occasional Paper #15
University of Vermont Graduate Theses on Vermont Topics, 1975-1992, edited by Kristin Peterson-Ishaq, 246 pp., incl. index, 1993; $17.00; ISBN 0-944277-24-1. Supplement to Occasional Paper #1; provides over 300 abstracts of theses and dissertations focusing on Vermont research in over 30 graduate programs at UVM.

Occasional Paper #16
The Vermont State Office of Economic Opportunity: A Case Study in Organizational Relationships, by Mary Carlson, 68 pp., 1993; $7.50. ISBN 0-944277-25-X.  Traces the organizational development of the Vermont State Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) from its beginnings as part of national and statewide efforts to wage the War on Poverty to 1993.

Occasional Paper #17
Lucius Chittenden's Journey to "The Inside of the Earth," by Lucius Chittenden; transcribed and annotated by Michael N. Stanton, 87 pp., 1995; $7.50. ISBN 0-944277-31-4.  Contains seven pieces of fiction written by Lucius Chittenden (1824–1900), a Vermont lawyer who served in the Lincoln administration.

Occasional Paper #18
The Light of Other Days: The First Twenty Years of the Center for Research on Vermont, by George B. Bryan, 108 pp., 1995; $8.50. ISBN 0-944277-33-0. A meticulously researched documentary history of the Center for Research on Vermont; includes a name-index.

Occasional Paper #19
The Character of Vermont: Twentieth-Anniversary Reflections , by Michael Sherman and Jennie Versteeg, Samuel B. Hand, and Paul Gillies, 63 pp., 1996; $7.50. ISBN 0-944277-34-9. Consists of hree papers on topics of importance to Vermont in the context of the twenty-year existence of the Center for Research on Vermont—"Surveying the Character of Vermont," "Present at the Creation: Establishing a Center for Research on Vermont," and "The State of Vermont Research in 1995."

Occasional Paper #20
'Dear Wife': The Civil War Letters of Chester K. Leach, Compiled by Edward J. Feidner, 243 pp., illustrated; paperbound; 2002; $19.00. ISBN 0-944277-38-1. Presents the experiences of Chester K. Leach of Fletcher, through his own words “in one of the finest and most complete accounts of a Vermonter in service during the American Civil War.”

Proceedings

Data Collection: Individual Rights to Privacy vs. Public Program Needs, edited by D. Gregory Sanford, Mary Deming, and Frederick Schmidt, 56 pp., 1977; $5.00. ISBN 0-944277-01-2. Summarizes addresses and remarks delivered at a November 6, 1976 conference sponsored by the Center and funded in part by a grant from the Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues, and the UVM College of Arts and Sciences.

Vermont's Heritage: A Working Conference for Teachers: Plans, Proposals, and Needs, edited by Marshall True, Mary Woodruff, and Kristin Peterson-Ishaq, 130 pp., 1983, $7.50. ISBN 0-944277-10-1. Contains scholars' presentations and curricular projects developed by participants at a July 9–13, 1994 conference partially supported by a matching grant from the Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues.

Teaching Vermont's Heritage: Proceedings of the Second Working Conference on Vermont's Heritage forTeachers, edited by Marshall True, Mary Wood-ruff, and Kristin Peterson-Ishaq, 160 pp., 1984,$7.50. ISBN 0-944277-11-X

Lake Champlain: Reflections on Our Past, edited by Jennie G. Versteeg, 300 pp., 1989; $17.95. ISBN 0-944277-19-5. Volume of selected presentations from the two-year humanities project, "Lake Champlain: Reflections on Our Past." (Note: A bibliography to this book was published in a 1989 [listed with Reference Tools]).

We Vermonters: Perspectives on the Past, edited by Michael Sherman and Jennie Versteeg. Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society, 1992. 361 pp., $21.95. ISBN 0-934720-38-x. A collection of 31 essays exploring various aspects of Vermont's history and identity.  (Note: A bibliography to this book was published in 1995 [listed with Reference Tools]).

Reference Tools

University of Vermont Libraries Folklore and Oral History Catalogue, 133 pp., 1991; $10.50. ISBN 0-944277-22-5. (Individual collections are available separately upon request for $2.00 each, $5.00 for Folklore.) The catalogues's 450 entries describe six collections--College of Medicine, Folklore, Institutional, Political, Vermont, and Vermont Landscape Artists--in the UVM Archives of Folklore and Oral History.

We Vermonters: Perspectives on the Past - A Bibliography, edited by Kristin Peterson-Ishaq, 177 pp., 1995; $14.00. ISBN 0-944277-29-2. Combines the annotated reading lists of more than 60 presentations on Vermont's history and heritage from the interdisciplinary series, "We Vermonters: Perspectives on the Past." Serves as a companion volume to the book of selected essays, We Vermonters: Perspectives on the Past which is also available from the Center (see above).

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