About Us

tseidule@hamilton.edu

Ty Seidule served in the U.S. Army for more than three decades, retiring in 2020 as a brigadier general. He is a professor emeritus of history at West Point and received its distinguished faculty award.

In 2021, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appointed Seidule to the Congressional Naming Commission tasked with redesignating Department of Defense assets which honor Confederates, where he was elected vice chair.

Seidule's most recent book is A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation’s Military Bases. His previous book Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause made NPR, Forbes and others best books of 2021 list. Seidule has written or edited five other books, four of which won writing prizes, and he created and co-edited the award-winning West Point History of Warfare, the largest enhanced digital book in any field. His short video, "Was the Civil War About Slavery" has 35 million views on social media.

Seidule serves as an International Security Fellow at New America and is also on the scholar advisory board for the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History.

ksstewar@hamilton.edu

315-859-4824

Kaity Stewart graduated from Bowling Green State University with a Master's Degree in College Student Personnel and spent ten years working in student life. The first 3 years of her career were in residential life at Syracuse University, followed by 7 years in Student Activities at Hamilton College. She is an event planner who manages complex logistics and budgets while also integrating an emphasis on the student experience into her work. Stewart oversees the day-to-day operations of the Common Ground team and works to execute on all aspects of the Common Ground events and mission.

kritchie@hamilton.edu

315-859-4351

Kim Ritchie graduated from The Ohio State University with a Master’s Degree in English. While in graduate school, she worked in the Office of Academic Affairs in the Program Review Office. After graduation she worked first as a technical writer at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio and then as the Manager of Technical Publications and Document Control at the Fernald Environmental Management Project near Cincinnati. Since then she has been a freelance writer and retail manager. She provides logistical and administrative support to Common Ground.