All News

In three recent articles, TIME magazine has engaged the expertise of Hamilton experts in reporting a story. Most recently, Director of Special Collections and History Lecturer Christian Goodwillie was quoted in Read a Rare Alexander Hamilton Love Letter to Elizabeth Schuyler.

By the numbers, the Wellin Museum’s new exhibition, Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, has been a great success with more than 1,500 visitors in the first two weeks since its opening.

Praised by The Wall Street Journal, the Natural History Magazine and the Library Journal, among others, “Continental Divide – a History of American Mountaineering,” has been released by W.W. Norton in paperback. A National Outdoor Book Award honorable mention recipient, the book, written by Professor of History Maurice Isserman, has been excerpted in publications including The Alpinist and The Oregonian.

When ESPN’s 30 for 30 O.J.: Made in America, was announced at this week’s Academy Awards ceremony as the winner in the best documentary category, alumna Deirdre Fenton ’04, was one of its producers receiving an Oscar.

The Peace Corps announced that Hamilton was listed 22nd among small schools on the agency’s 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are nine Hamilton alumni currently volunteering worldwide.

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the world’s first jazz recording, the Hamilton College Fillius Jazz Archive has begun to add its more than 300 videotaped interviews with jazz greats onto its YouTube channel.

New York Times quoted Professor of Economics Paul Hagstrom and referenced his research focused on refugees in a Feb. 22 article in the Times titled “A Surprising Salve for New York’s Beleaguered Cities: Refugees.”

In one of many interviews on American Public Media’s Marketplace program, Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, discussed what regulators might consider when making changes to the Dodd-Frank financial reform law in a segment titled “How small is too big to fail?” on Feb. 16.

The Wellin Museum will host an opening reception for Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, oil paintings that explore our relationship with the media landscape and a graphic memoir based on the architecture of urban playgrounds in the 1970s, on Feb. 18.

Professor of Government Robert W.T. Martin's essay titled “What Did the Founding Fathers Think of Fake News?” appearing on the History News Network site called on Americans to take the role of the press more seriously.