All posts tagged "Middlebury College"
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15.4K2Business and LaborEmma Willard: Inventor of the Modern Woman (in 1821)
Emma Willard was one of the first people – if not the first— to believe women could have it all: career, family...
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13.7K8Religion and Social MovementsVermont’s Alexander Twilight: The First Black College Graduate in America
One day at the Brownington school in Orleans County, Vt., a youngster approached the front of the class to answer an arithmetic...
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7.1K1Business and LaborColumbus Smith Found Fortune Abroad, Sadness at Home.
Columbus Smith, a Vermont lawyer, found in 1844 he could make a fortune by researching old deeds to locate the rightful heirs...
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