SUNY Plattsburgh History Department

SUNY Plattsburgh History Department Official page of the Department of History, SUNY Plattsburgh. page dedicated to networking with students, alumni, and the wider community.

Some photos of our SUNY Plattsburgh History Department majors taken following the Spring 2026 SUNY Plattsburgh commencem...
05/16/2026

Some photos of our SUNY Plattsburgh History Department majors taken following the Spring 2026 SUNY Plattsburgh commencement ceremony. Congratulations to all of our graduates who have achieved this important milestone.

Here are photos of the SUNY Plattsburgh History Department students who presented their research papers at today’s 2026 ...
05/08/2026

Here are photos of the SUNY Plattsburgh History Department students who presented their research papers at today’s 2026 Senior Presentations, held in the Alumni Room in the Angell College Center of SUNY Plattsburgh Every one of them did a great job, and the attendees’ level of engagement made this a very enjoyable event. Thank you to all who presented and participated! We also wish to give special thanks to our department administrator, Karen Richard for organizing this event.

Happening now….Spring 2026 SUNY Plattsburgh History Department Senior Presentations in the Alumni Conference Room, Angel...
05/08/2026

Happening now….Spring 2026 SUNY Plattsburgh History Department Senior Presentations in the Alumni Conference Room, Angell College Center SUNY Plattsburgh

05/07/2026

Here is the schedule for tomorrow's SUNY Plattsburgh History Department Senior Presentations. All are welcome to attend.

MAY 8TH, 2026
Alumni Conference Room, Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh

Schedule:

8:25 Welcome & Land Acknowledgment

8:30 Braden Peluso
“Contested Histories: Addressing the Odanak Missisquoi Relationship”

8:55 Tyler Deluca
“From Marksmanship to Political Advocacy: NRA Activism in the Early Twentieth Century”

9:20 Larry Blackwell
“Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the Children History Tried to Forget”

9:45 Sarah Davidson
“A Historiographical Approach: Examining the Importance of Household Archeology Within Cultural Preservation”

10:10 Sarah Tansey
“Back to Basics: A Case for Analog Learning”

10:35 Luciano Fiorello
“Artificial Intelligence and Social Studies: Opportunity or Risk?”

11:00 Zander Brown
“The Value of Debate in Social Studies?”

11:25 Georgia Belrose
“From Community to Classroom: The Power of Local History in the Social Studies Classroom”

LUNCH (for Presenters, their Guests & Faculty) 12:00 – 1:00 Alumni Conference Room
** Southern Italian Buffet with Vegetarian Options & Iced Water

1:00 Gabriella Gentile
“The Interiority of Combat: Using Oral History to Recover the Immigrant Experience in WWI”

1:25 Mikayla Ormsby
“An Unwritten Story: Folklore and Oral Tradition in the Classroom”

1:50 Amanda Reymaniak
“Teaching the Cold War in American Classrooms: Challenges and Strategies”

2:15 Ethan Witt
“Debating Debate: The Role of Argumentation in Social Studies Classrooms”

2:40 Dustin Lair
“Listen with Your Three Ears: Using Indigenous Methods to Teach Indigenous History”

3:05 Lucas Jensen
“Religion in the Classroom”

3:30 Carson Garcia
“More than a Game: Teaching the Cold War Through Sport”

Here is a photo taken today of SUNY Plattsburgh history major Mikayla Ormsby with a cheque for having won the 2026 Benja...
05/05/2026

Here is a photo taken today of SUNY Plattsburgh history major Mikayla Ormsby with a cheque for having won the 2026 Benjamin Feinberg Library Research Prize for an essay she completed as an Historical Advanced Honors Project with the guidance and mentorship of Dr. Vincey Carey. Her essay is entitled "History Hates Lovers: Modern Perceptions of Q***r Relationships and Women in 19th Century America." Good things are happening in the SUNY Plattsburgh History Department

Here are some photos of the SUNY Plattsburgh History Department majors who successfully completed a Senior Honors projec...
05/01/2026

Here are some photos of the SUNY Plattsburgh History Department majors who successfully completed a Senior Honors project this semester and delivered polished, professional presentations to the campus community this afternoon. The three presenters pictured here are Shane Gannon, Lucas Jensen, and Mikayla Ormsby. Thanks also to their academic mentors, SUNY Plattsburgh Professors Vincent Carey and Gary Kroll.

Happening now in Krinovitz Recital Hall: The 2026 SUNY Plattsburgh History Department Historical Advanced Honors Present...
05/01/2026

Happening now in Krinovitz Recital Hall: The 2026 SUNY Plattsburgh History Department Historical Advanced Honors Presentations. This is Shane Gannon presenting a research paper entitled “Branches on a Tree: Native American Nature Writing from 1890 to Today”.

We are happy to announce that one of our majors, Mikayla Ormsby, has been awarded the 2026 Feinberg Library Undergraduat...
04/30/2026

We are happy to announce that one of our majors, Mikayla Ormsby, has been awarded the 2026 Feinberg Library Undergraduate Research Prize. Mikayla’s paper, entitled “History Hates Lovers: The Modern Perception of Q***r Relationships in 19th Century America”, was written as a course assignment for Dr. Vincent Carey’s History 385 “Advanced Historical Practices” class. The prize carries with it a $500 award, a certificate, and publication in the SUNY Plattsburgh Institutional Repository.

SUNY Plattsburgh History Department majors Shane Gannon, Lucas Jesnen, Sarah Tansley, and Mikayla Ormsbypresented polis...
04/21/2026

SUNY Plattsburgh History Department majors Shane Gannon, Lucas Jesnen, Sarah Tansley, and Mikayla Ormsby
presented polished, professional and rigorous papers at the Phi Alpha Theta conference on Saturday at Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry this Saturday. They are picutred here with Sarah Root and their academic advisor, Professor Gary Kroll.

The quallity of their work was remarked upon by conference participants. And Sarah's essay on Bob Marshall and the Adirondacks garnered the prize for best paper.

We wish to congratulate them on their hard work.

A group photo of SUNY Plattsburgh History Department (History Honors Society) inductees, taken at the Valcour Conferen...
04/16/2026

A group photo of SUNY Plattsburgh History Department (History Honors Society) inductees, taken at the Valcour Conference Center on Saturday, April 11, 2026. Congratulations are in order for these high-achieving students. Their faculty advior, Dr. Connie Shemo, is pictured also, front row, left.

Well, you know you are a popular Professor when a student shows up for her final exam wearing custom-made pants fe...
12/09/2025

Well, you know you are a popular Professor when a student shows up for her final exam wearing custom-made pants featuring your face printed all over them...Professor Hornibrook claims the student said she got the pants second-hand, from a former student of his...

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