History 117, “US History To 1877,” with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets at Dickinson College during spring semester 2026 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9AM in Denny 211. Course texts include Gordon Wood, The American Revolution (2002) and Louis Masur, The Civil War (2011), plus an innovative online textbook called American Yawp, as well as other articles and online resources. As part of their course work, students will write two essays (on the revolutionary and Civil War eras) and will create one multi-media close reading project on a key document from early American history.
Banner image credit: 1865 Lithograph adapted from Thomas Nast 1863 illustration for Harper’s Weekly magazine. For more information on this early example of “photoshopping,” visit the House Divided Project’s Emancipation Digital classroom.
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