Kevin Thornton
CommentatorKevin Thornton is an historian and filmmaker from Brandon. His current project is about mourning and Civil War memory in Vermont.
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For decades now, American colleges have been working to identify their first African-American students. The implicit message is that any college that can… -
150 years ago this month my town of Brandon, like the rest of the state, was in mourning. A town of 3,000 in the 1860 census, it lost six men in the… -
Andrew Harris, University of Vermont class of 1838, was the first black college graduate in the United States to demand, not only an end to slavery, but…
