sentence: Sale is director of the institute.
sentences_before: In 2004, Sale and members of the Second Vermont Republic formed the Middlebury Institute which is dedicated to the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination.
sentences_after: In 2006, Middlebury sponsored the First North American Secessionist Convention, which attracted 40 participants from 16 secessionist organizations and was described as the first gathering of secessionists since the American Civil War.
concept_name: sale
headings: Kirkpatrick Sale Views Secession
categories: American historians Writers from New York Cornell University alumni 1937 births Living people