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Marist Fall 2026 Open House
Join us for our final Fall Open House and see Marist for yourself. Explore our stunning riverfront campus, learn more about academics and admissions, and get a firsthand look at life as a Red Fox. Along the way, you'll hear from students, faculty, and staff about the opportunities, connections, and experiences that make Marist special. Register Below:
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Academics
Marist Fall 2026 Open House
Join us for our final Fall Open House and see Marist for yourself. Explore our stunning riverfront campus, learn more about academics and admissions, and get a firsthand look at life as a Red Fox. Along the way, you'll hear from students, faculty, and staff about the opportunities, connections, and experiences that make Marist special. Register Below:
Academics
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Admission & Financial Aid
Marist Fall 2026 Open House
Join us for our final Fall Open House and see Marist for yourself. Explore our stunning riverfront campus, learn more about academics and admissions, and get a firsthand look at life as a Red Fox. Along the way, you'll hear from students, faculty, and staff about the opportunities, connections, and experiences that make Marist special. Register Below:
Admission & Financial Aid
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Student Life
Marist Fall 2026 Open House
Join us for our final Fall Open House and see Marist for yourself. Explore our stunning riverfront campus, learn more about academics and admissions, and get a firsthand look at life as a Red Fox. Along the way, you'll hear from students, faculty, and staff about the opportunities, connections, and experiences that make Marist 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)
