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Fall Open House
Join us for our last Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
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Fall Open House
Join us for our last Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
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Fall Open House
Join us for our last Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
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Nicholas Marshall
Associate Professor of History
Bio
Courses taught:
- Conspiracy Theories in American History
- The Empire State: New York History
- American History to 1877
- Themes in Modern History
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Historical Research Methods
- American Colonial Experience
- History and Culture of the Hudson River Valley
- Sex, Death, and Disease in America
- Radicals and Reformers in Nineteenth-Century America
Education
PhD, University of California, Davis
MA, University of California, Davis
BA, Oberlin College
Research Interests/Areas of Focus
Social History of the United States
Selected Publications
"The Sacrosanct Statistics of the Civil War," J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 4 (Spring, 2016), 214-221
"The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War," Journal of the Civil War Era 4 (March, 2014), 3-26
"Rural Experience and the Development of the Middle Class: the Power of Culture and Tangible Improvements," American Nineteenth Century History 8 (March, 2007), 1-25
"The Rural Newspaper and the Circulation of Information and Culture in New York and the Antebellum North," New York History 88 (Spring, 2007), 133-151
"'In the Midst of Life We Are in Death': Affliction and the Practice of Religion in Antebellum America," in Mortal Remains: Images and Attitudes toward Death in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003)
