About the Author and Contributors

AUTHOR

Christine Smith is the librarian at Spaulding High School in Barre, Vermont and former high school history teacher. She has a Master's Degree in Early American Women's History and Vermont Women's History. She is Treasurer and past president of the Vermont Alliance of the Social Studies and member of the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance.

For information on the lessons or primary documents please email Christine at History200VT@gmail.com

CONTRIBUTORS

Historian Marilyn Blackwell, Ph.D., has published many articles on nineteenth-century women in the United States and the social history of Vermont. She is co-author of Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood.

Rachel Onuf is Director of the Vermont Historical Records Program, based at the Vermont State Archives & Records Administration. Rachel holds an MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Michigan and an MA in American History from the University of Virginia.

Heather Kralik is Outreach Coordinator for the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. A career children's librarian of twenty-six years, she pioneered a school-to-garden library program. Heather is an artist who uses pastels, watercolors, and collage to merge birds into landscapes. Her last show was at North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.