In 2009, to help commemorate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, the House Divided Project at Dickinson College partnered with the Journal of American History to create a web-based exhibit that would showcase ways that newly emerging digital tools could reshape the…
Author: Matthew Pinsker
EXHIBIT –Lincoln Douglas Debates
The House Divided Project at Dickinson College has created an innovative digital classroom on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. The contest between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was really the first public US senatorial campaign in American history and…
EXHIBIT –Daniel Anthony of Kansas
Dickinson student Taylor Bye created a fascinating web exhibit that explores that life of Daniel Anthony, the brother of Susan B. Anthony. Daniel was a noted abolitionist, Civil War soldier and Kansas journalist, whose life and career spanned some of…
COLLECTION –Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island: Emergency is a collection of materials from the period surrounding the 1979 nuclear accident at power plant near Middletown, PA. The resource center includes government documents, newspaper reports and a variety of other primary sources. There is…
COLLECTION –Their Own Words
The Dickinson Library has digitized over 34,000 pages of text (both published and unpublished) that were written by Dickinsonians from the 18th,19th, and 20th centuries. The wide-ranging collection covers numerous topics, but the collection is especially strong for the following figures:…
COLLECTION –Slavery and Abolition
The libraries at Dickinson College and Millersville University formed a partnership to digitize more than 24,000 pages of nineteenth-century US pamphlets on slavery and abolition. Slavery & Abolition in the US
COLLECTION –Lincoln’s Writings
NEH EDSITEMENT has named Lincoln’s Writings: The Multi-Media Edition as one of the “Best of the Humanities Web.” The site ranks 150 of Abraham Lincoln’s most teachable documents and provides an arsenal of multi-media learning resources around each one. This…
COLLECTION –Carlisle Indian School
The Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center is one of the newest and most ambitious primary source collections ever undertaken at Dickinson College. The project, led by co-directors Jim Gerencser, Susan Rose and Malinda Triller,aims to develop a comprehensive searchable database…
EXHIBIT –Remembering America Since 1945
In spring 2015, Dickinson students in History 118 (US Since 1877) conducted oral histories and produced essays with multi-media appendixes (such as podcasts or videos). Several of these extraordinary projects have been featured in this Storify essay summarizing their work.…
PODCAST –MLK Riots in Washington DC
In spring 2015, Dickinson student Caly McCarthy interviewed her father Joseph McCarthy about his recollections of the city of Washington DC in the aftermath of the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination in 1968. The gripping interview also formed the basis…