History Methods and Historical Thinking
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- Teaching and Learning (American Historical Association)
- Learning Historical Research (William Cronon)
- Osborne Center for Historical Methods (Dickinson College)
- TeachingHistory.org (George Mason University)
- Historyprofessor.org (Zachary Schrag)
- Stanford History Education Group (Stanford University)
- Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts, Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001), [GOOGLE BOOKS]
Colleges & Universities Studying Slavery
There are simply far too many web resources on the subject of slavery and academia to include here in their entirety, but this section highlights a range of introductory articles, edited collections, or projects that can help demonstrate some emerging trends and best practices.
- Universities Studying Slavery consortium (includes Dickinson College)
- Jenny Schuessler, “Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery,” New York Times, March 5, 2017
- Leslie Harris, et.al., ed. Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (2019)
- Brown University: Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice (2007)
- Columbia University: Columbia & Slavery (2017)
- Georgetown University: Slavery Archive (2017)
- Harvard University: Harvard and Slavery (2011)
- Princeton University: Princeton & Slavery (2018)
- University of Alabama: Hilary Green’s Hallowed Ground site (2018)
- University of Virginia: President’s Commission Report (2018)
Dickinson College Histories
- A Sketch of the Rise … of Dickinson College (1811)
- Charles Collins, Dickinson College (1856)
- Dickinson College and Its Alumni (1866)
- William Allen, Dickinson College: An Historical Sketch (1875)
- Charles Francis Himes, A Sketch of Dickinson College (1879)
- Horatio Collins King, History of Dickinson College (1897)
- Robert McAlarney, Address on the History of West College (1904)
- Mary Dillon, In Old Bellaire (1906) –historical novel about Civil War era
- Boyd L. Spahr, Dickinson Doings: Ten Stories (1900)
- Edward W. Biddle, The Old College Lot (1920)
- Charles W. Super, A Pioneer College and Its Background (1923)
- James Henry Morgan, Dickinson College (1933)
- Charles Coleman Sellers, Dickinson College: A History (1973)
- James Gerencser & John Osborne, eds., Dickinson Chronicles (2000)
- Dickinson Archives & Special Collections (current)
- House Divided research engine (current)
- Dickinson & Slavery (current)
- Dickinson College, The Dickinson Story (current)
BLACK CARLISLE
- 1896 article, “Negroes Under Northern Conditions” by Guy Carleton Lee (features analysis of black community in Carlisle) [Google Books]
- 1910 Pennsylvania Negro Business Directory [Hathi Trust]
- Janet Bell, Lincoln Cemetery: “The Story Down Under” 1884-1905 (Carlisle, 2011) (hard copy at CCHS; newspaper article & video at PennLive)
- Susan Cavenagh, “Blacks In Carlisle, 1870-1880,” History Department honors thesis, Dickinson College, 1970
- Linda Reis, “Looking for Lochman” essay from 2000 collection on photographers (Carlisle photographers from this period include: John Nicholas Choate, Charles Francis Himes, Albert Allen Line, Charles Lochman)
- US Census records (note 1890 census records mostly destroyed) (Ancestry.com via Library database finder)
