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)

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Contact Information

Academic School

School of Liberal Arts

Office

Fontaine 211

Email

Nicholas.Marshall@Marist.edu

Phone

845-575-3000, ext. 2290