Phillip Hamilton

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Phillip Hamilton (born 1961 in Toronto, Canada, though not Canadian) is the author of the book, The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family. He is currently working on The History of Christopher Newport University, a local university in Virginia.

Hamilton graduated from Gettysburg College, then attended graduate school in history at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned a Ph.D. He then moved to St. Peters, Missouri with his wife, Christina where he got a job there at Lindenwood University They lived in St. Peters, Missouri and had two children, Thomas, born in 1993 and Jacob, born in 1997. They then moved to Newport News, Virginia where he got a job as a history professor at Christopher Newport University. After seven years of writing, editing, and submitting, his book was finally published, The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family. Afterwards Paul Trible, the head of CNU asked him to begin writing The History of Christopher Newport University. He has recently received tenure.

Phillip Hamilton describes himself as a datheist, or a mix of a deism and theism. Says Phillip Hamilton, "God does not usually concern himself with matters of our world, but will from time to time intervene."