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Dr. Thomas S. Wermuth
The Frank T. Bumpus Chair in Hudson River Valley History
Bio
Dr. Thomas S. Wermuth is the Frank T. Bumpus Chair and the Academic Director of the Hudson River Valley Institute. His teaching focuses on early North American and United States history with special attention to the Hudson Valley region. He has researched and authored books and articles about the people and culture of the Hudson River Valley, and his most recent volume is a reappraisal of New York鈥檚 pivotal role in the American Revolution, titled Fire and Freedom: The American Revolution in New York, available from Cornell University Press.
Education
PhD, Binghamton University
MA, SUNY-Albany
BA, 蜜月直播
AA, Dutchess Community College
Selected Publications
Fire and Freedom: The American Revolution in New York, edited with Jennifer Lemak and Devin Lander. (Cornell University Press, 2026).
鈥淜eeping `Blue Monday鈥 in the Hudson Valley: A Note on Nineteenth Century Work Culture," Hudson River Valley Review 39:1 (Autumn, 2022), 76-84.
鈥溾楢fter the ceremony of the minister was over, the ceremony of the crowd began鈥: The Evolution of the Skimelton, a New York Wedding Tradition,鈥 New York History 99:3/4 (Fall, 2018), 225-255.
鈥淧ainters, Writers, and Tourists in the Nineteenth Century,鈥 in Painters, Writers, and Tourists in the Nineteenth Century, (special issue of Hudson River Valley Review, 2014), iv-vii.
鈥淭he American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley,鈥 with James Johnson in James Johnson, Christopher Pryslopski, eds., The Key to the Northern Country: The Revolution in the Hudson River Valley. (Excelsior Editions, 2013), 1-9.
鈥淎fter the Halfmoon: New Approaches to the Study of Henry Hudson and the Hudson River Valley,鈥 The William and Mary Quarterly LXVII (October, 2010), 817-826.
America鈥檚 First River: The History and Culture of the Hudson River Valley History. State University of New York Press, 2009, edited with James Johnson and Christopher Pryslopski.
鈥淭he Central Hudson Valley and the American Revolution,鈥 in Joseph Tiedemann and Eugene Fingerhut, eds., The Other New York: The Revolution Beyond New York City. (State University of New York Press, 2006), 145-175.
Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850.2 State University of New York Press, 2002.
鈥淣ew York Farmers and the Market Revolution: Economic Behavior in the mid-Hudson Valley,鈥 Journal of Social History 32 (1998), 179-197.
I have presented 22 scholarly papers at conferences since 1988, including the Organization of American Historians, Business History Conference, Social Science History Association, Cambridge University Colloquium on Early American History, New York State Historical Association, and the Economic & Business Historical Society. I have also given a number of invited talks over the years at such institutions as Vassar College, Hamilton College, Binghamton University, the University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 Center for Early American Studies, and Bard College.
Awards and Honors
National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, 2009-13, $500,000.
Helen Wilkinson Reynolds Award, Dutchess County Historical Society, 2018.
U.S. Department of Education 鈥淭eaching American History鈥 Grant, 2006-2009, $999,000.
Hudson Valley Heritage Award, Locust Grove Historic Site, 2008.
Elected Fellow, New York Academy of History, Columbia University, 2008.
U.S. Department of Education 鈥淭eaching American History鈥 Grant, 2002-2005, $837,000.
蜜月直播 Board of Trustees Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2001.
New York Council/ National Endowment for the Humanities, Program Grant, Fall 2000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship, 1993.
Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Early American Studies, 1991.
Charles G. Kennedy Award, Economic and Business Historical Society, 1991.