In this 2008 interview conducted at Dickinson College, historian Mark Neely was asked whether Sherman’s March to the Sea in 1864 and across the Carolinas in 1865 were examples of total war. He denied that they were and tried to…
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VIDEO –Interview on Civil War Politics
Pulitzer Prizer winning historian Mark Neely offers thoughtful comments on two-party politics and the suppression of civil liberties in the North during the American Civil War. Matthew Pinsker interviewed Neely on the Dickinson College campus in spring 2008.
Contributors
Student contributors for this project include undergraduates from Dickinson College and graduate students who have participated in Matthew Pinsker’s online courses for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. In some cases, we also have middle and high school student contributors,…
Mr. Spielberg Goes to Washington
This essay appeared in Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation, ed. Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon (Ohio University Press, 2016), pp. 236-58 Mr. Spielberg Goes to Washington[1] By Matthew Pinsker When Frank Nugent, the film critic for the New York…