A graduate of Yale, Stanford, and Harvard, Vic Henningsen began his career as a ranger-naturalist with the Vermont Department of Forests & Parks before shifting gears and teaching history for almost forty years, most of them at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. During that time he also served as a visiting scholar in education at Dartmouth College, held summer research fellowships with the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, and was for fourteen years a regular commentator on history, politics, and culture for Vermont Public Radio.  He currently teaches history at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth and serves as a trustee of the Vermont Historical Society. He lives in Thetford Center, Vermont.