Robert Dalzell Fred Rudolph Professor of American Culture B.A. (1959) Amherst College Ph.D. (1966) Yale University

Contact
NAB Room 246
Phone: 413.597.2361
Robert.F.Dalzell@williams.edu
Office Hours:
By appointment

Courses Taught
HIST 252B: America from San Gabriel to Gettysburg, 1492-1865
HIST 301B: Autobiography as History: An American Character?
HIST 372: The Rise of American Business
HIST 373: Va Va Vroom!-A Nation on Wheels
HIST 466: Imagining Urban America, Three Case Studies: Boston, Chicago, and L.A.

Selected Publications
George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America, with Lee B. Dalzell (Oxford University Press, 1998).  Precis
Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).
Daniel Webster and the Trial of North American Nationalism, 1843-1852 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973; paperback New York: W.W. Norton, 1975).
American Participation in the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, 1960).

Research Interests
The Rockefellers and Kykuit (the family home in Pocantico, NY)

Theses Advised
Kelly M. Grant '00
Richard Scott '00
Steven Gertner '01, Rockefeller Center
John Crowley-Delman '01, The Williams Station Mill
Joanna Pons '02, American Political Discourse Concerning the French Revolution
Robert Carroll '03, MassMOCA. Idea to Reality
Robinson Sawyer '03, The Elimination of Fraternities at Williams College

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