Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth

  • Making Roots
  • Why Busing Failed
  • The Nicest Kids inu0026nbsp;Town
  • Black Quotidian
  • Digital History
  • Bio u0026amp; CV
  • In the Media
  • Half American

    The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Published October 2022 from Viking Books, Pre-order available now. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of […]

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    26 Dec 2021
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  • Speaker’s Bio

    Dr. Matthew Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African-American History and the history of Civil Rights, his next book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, will be published by Viking Books in October […]

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    17 Sep 2020
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  • Black Quotidian

    Black Quotidian

    Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers, a digital book published by Stanford University Press (2019), explores everyday lives of African Americans in the twentieth century. Drawing on an archive of digitized African-American newspapers, Matthew F. Delmont guides readers through a wealth of primary resources that reveal how the Black press popularized African-American history and […]

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    16 Sep 2020
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  • Why Busing Failed

    Why Busing Failed

    My second book, Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation, was  published by University of California Press in 2016. In the decades after Brown v Board of Education, busing became one of the nation’s most controversial civil rights issues. Why Busing Failed is the first book to examine battles over […]

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    14 Sep 2020
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  • The Nicest Kids in Town

    The Nicest Kids in Town

    American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark’s claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black […]

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    13 Sep 2020
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  • Making Roots

    Making Roots

    Making Roots: A Nation Captivated, was published in August 2016 by University of California Press.  This is the first book length study of Roots. Roots, published by Doubleday in the fall of 1976 and broadcast by ABC in the winter of 1977, was read by millions and watched by millions more, but today, Roots is neither […]

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    12 Sep 2020
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  • Digital History

    Digital History

    Leveraging new media platforms for scholarly communication is also important to me as a means of outreach.  I learned how to use the Scalar multimedia-authoring platform as a fellow in the NEH Digital Humanities summer seminar at USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy in 2011.  Since then, I have created Scalar companion websites for each of […]

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    11 Sep 2020
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  • In the Media

    In the Media

    “Proposed new GI Bill targets racial inequities,” CBS Evening News, December 27, 2021 “Lessons from the Derek Chauvin verdict,” CBS Sunday Morning, April 25, 2021 “‘Trying To Reckon Honestly’: Dartmouth Prof. On The Evolution Of Black History Month” (Vermont Public Radio), February 15, 2021 “Joe Biden On Race: What The Democratic Presidential Nominee Has Said […]

    mattdelmont

    10 Sep 2020
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  • Teaching

    Teaching

    I became a Professor because I love teaching. As a teacher, I want my students to see the study of history as an ongoing endeavor in which they play an important part.  I create hands-on courses that provide spaces for students to develop their own ideas and opinions through primary source research, critical thinking, reading, […]

    mattdelmont

    9 Sep 2020
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