Ethan Allen has an image problem. Is the internet and present-day polarization to blame?

Ethan Allen, as portrayed in a 1927 advertisement for Ticonderoga pencils. Photo courtesy Vermont Historical SocietyAs Revolutionary War leader of the Green Mountain Boys militia, Ethan Allen had seemingly no sooner captured Fort Ticonderoga from British troops on May 10, 1775, when he put quill pen to parchment to chronicle his effort.“I have,” Allen wrote, “taken the greatest care and pains to recollect the facts and arrange them; but as they touch a variety of characters and