
History
The goal of the History Department is to introduce students to the histories of a broad range of cultures, peoples, places, and times while honing their skills in writing, speaking, and research.
The Senior Program
The senior seminar paper or honors thesis is the culminating experience for history majors at Hamilton. It is a semester-long research project in which students draw on their accumulated skills and knowledge to produce focused, high-level scholarship on a specific topic or problem.
Recent projects in history include:
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A “Dirty War” against History: Historical Self-Perception in Argentina’s Proceso Militar
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“I Had No Intention of Remaining Quiet:” Renegotiating African Womanhood through Travel
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Bonds of Iron...and Blood Too: An Intellectual History of the Prominence of the Volk and Mysticism in the Origins of National Socialism
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Modeling a Gentleman: Landon Carter and the Virginian Gentry
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Our Earthly Bodies: Caught between the eternal rock and a hard place
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“Have the Leading Men of All Countries Lost Their Reason Completely?”: Building Transnational Communities through Race and Gender after World War I
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Abraham Lincoln's Rhetoric of Qualification
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Military Tribunals and the Hegemony of Liberal Internationalism
- Discord in Utopia: Reconciling Perfectionism with Human Nature in the Oneida Community
- Narratives of a Nation: Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of Hindu Nationalism and Appeal for Universal Nationalism
- Confrontational Coverage: Imagery, Media Exposure, and the Civil Rights Movement
Contact
Department Name
History Department
Contact Name
Shoshana Keller, Chair
Clinton, NY 13323