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…
Category: Antebellum Era
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 –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The Dickinson Library has digitized over 34,000 pages of text (both published and unpublished) that were written by Dickinsonians from the 18th,19th, and 20th centuries.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…
PODCAST –Lincoln’s Writings
Dickinson theatre professor Todd Wronski has become the “voice of Lincoln” for the House Divided Project. He has recorded dozens of podcasts acting as Abraham Lincoln reading documents from Lincoln’s Writings: The Multi-Media edition, an award-wining website created by the…
PODCAST –Lincoln and Liberty
During the 1860 campaign, the Hutchinson Family Singers, a well known group of New Hampshire musical performers with strong antislavery sentiments, adapted a popular folk ballad, “Rosin’ the Bow,” (also Rosin’ the Beau) to help support the Republican presidential campaign…
VIDEO –Interview on Lincoln-Douglas Debates
In 2008, Lincoln scholar Matthew Pinsker offered a series of short interviews on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in preparation for a teacher workshop about the famous senatorial contest on its 150th anniversary. These videos were part of a companion digital classroom…
VIDEO –Interview on Lincoln’s Racial Views
Here Lincoln scholar Matthew Pinsker offers his views on whether or not Lincoln was a racist and how to explain Lincoln’s views on slavery. These interviews were recorded at Dickinson College in the summer of 2009. The interviewers were two…