Each month, VHC's Executive Director Peter Gilbert presents commentaries on Vermont Public Radio that examine current and past events from a humanities perspective.

The Campfire (5-20-13) Harvard professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson is regarded as one of the world's preeminent biologists, sociobiologists, and naturalists. An entomologist, he's the world's leading authority on ants. In his recently published book, The Social Conquest of Earth, Wilson describes how "eusocial" species have become the dominant species on earth.

1937 Guide To Vermont (5-10-2013) Seventy-five years ago, a summer visitor to the state would most likely have consulted the Guide to Vermont, published in 1937 by the Federal Writers' Project -- part of FDR's Works Progress Administration. Today the Guide offers an intriguing look at how much Vermont has changed since that time, and how much it's stayed the same.

Marooning the Heroes (4-22-2013) Years ago Peter Gilbert came across an old book buried in the stacks of Dartmouth's library.  The story it tells isn't historically important, but it's certainly is moving and memorable.

What JFK Jr. Taught Me (4-12-2013) Peter Gilbert recalls something a former student said now fifteen years ago and explains how, finally, he came to understand its wisdom.