The Wilmott Family Third Century Professor of History
- B.A. (1959) Amherst College
- Ph.D. (1966) Yale University
- Robert.F.Dalzell@williams.edu
- Stetson 404
- 413.597.2316
- Office Hours
- By appointment
- Courses
- 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.
- Research
- The Rockefellers and Kykuit (the family home in Pocantico, NY)
- Thesis Students
- 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
- 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).