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Major national and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus.

Ty Seidule, a military historian and the College’s inaugural Chamberlain Fellow, advised Hamilton’s 484 graduates never to stop learning and striving to achieve the College’s motto, Know Thyself. “Know your own history. Know your community’s history. … Keep questioning. Because that is really the only way to know thyself

Major national and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus.

The Hamilton College seal, “Know Thyself” parallels the modus operandi of Chamberlain Fellow and Visiting Professor of History, Ty Seidule’s critically acclaimed book, Robert E. Lee and Me.

From climate change to Title IX, from coups to international recruitment, faculty have presented their views in major news outlets throughout the year.

President Trump has vowed to veto a bill authorizing more than $740 billion in defense spending because it includes a provision to change the names of 10 Army installations, wrote Chamberlain Fellow and Professor of History Ty Seidule in a Washington Post essay on Sunday, Nov. 29.

Ty Seidule, a visiting professor of military history and retired brigadier general, is an expert on Confederate memorialization and the Lost Cause — the notion that the Confederacy was a doomed but noble undertaking is particularly attuned to the ways in which the war and its aftermath shaped American culture.