William P. Tatum III is the Dutchess County Historian, responsible for promoting county history through research, writing, and exhibits, records management projects, heritage tourism events, and coordinating the county history community. He received his BA in History and Anthropology from
the College of William & Mary in Virginia in 2003, his MA in History from Brown University in 2004, and and completed his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2016. He has thirteen years’ experience in museum and historic site work across the east coast. Before moving to Dutchess, he taught at Brown and served as the Sol Feinstone Scholar at the David Library of the American Revolution. His research focuses primarily on the eighteenth-century British Empire in North America.
the College of William & Mary in Virginia in 2003, his MA in History from Brown University in 2004, and and completed his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2016. He has thirteen years’ experience in museum and historic site work across the east coast. Before moving to Dutchess, he taught at Brown and served as the Sol Feinstone Scholar at the David Library of the American Revolution. His research focuses primarily on the eighteenth-century British Empire in North America.