Vic Henningsen
CommentatorVic Henningsen is a teacher and historian.
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Vermont's mountains were in tough shape. Delicate ecological areas like the arctic-alpine zones on Mansfield and Camel's Hump were being pounded by tens鈥� -
It seems that the President is again considering a national emergency declaration as a way of circumventing Congress to secure funding for his border鈥� -
The Shutdown is forcing both sides to embrace possible solutions to a problem neither particularly wants to solve. President Trump demands a border wall -鈥� -
President Trump made a mistake going after Chief Justice John Roberts in a recent Twitter storm. When the president denounced a member of the Ninth鈥� -
It was a tough year for apples on this side of the hill, but a banner year for squirrels. We have a lot of apple trees, but the two closest to the house鈥� -
The Kavanaugh confirmation drama reminds me of a capsule movie review of Dead Reckoning, a deservedly forgotten Humphrey Bogart thriller: 鈥淓veryone gets鈥� -
For the most part, the formal Kavanaugh hearings were a poor example of our democracy at work. Judge Kavanaugh was magnificently evasive: bobbing and鈥� -
Nearly identical appeals come from both Left and Right. 鈥淥nly your contribution NOW can stop Brett Kavanaugh from savaging your rights!鈥� Or, 鈥淥nly your鈥� -
In 1793, the ruler of the Earth鈥檚 richest and most powerful nation met with a delegation from what was then part of the developing world seeking to鈥� -
In troubled times, people often turn to history for guidance: surely, they think, the past has some instructive message for the present. But historians鈥�
