Matthew Pinsker
Office: 61 N. West Street
Email: pinskerm@dickinson.edu
Twitter: @House_Divided
Office Hours: By email or ZoomRecent Tweets
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MUST READ historically grounded analysis by Robert Kagan: Our constitutional crisis is already here #historyteacher https://t.co/H9NxZBuw14 2 years ago
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Essay on politics of History Wars, By Matthew Karp | Harper's Magazine https://t.co/QtXTNoHWHO 2 years ago
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RT @ProenzaColes: Portrait of the Afro-Spanish artist, Juan de Pareja. Painted by Diego Velazquez, Pareja was Velazquez’s enslaved as… https://t.co/LmuAujmENJ 2 years ago
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Election of 1948
The 1948 election presented a new opportunity for the United States. After Franklin Roosevelt had won four consecutive elections, there was now a clean slate, so to speak, and not just with two major party candidates. While Democrat Harry Truman … Continue reading
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Buchanan in 1856
By Sarah Aillon On November 6th, 1856, the Carlisle Democrat reported that the presidential election two days prior had “passed off quietly in Cumberland County.” [1] With two exceptions, Pennsylvania had voted Democrat in every presidential election since the establishment of … Continue reading
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“Possibly Tilden, Hopefully Hayes” : Political Party Intervention in the Election of 1876
“Twenty-four hours from the present writing the question will have been settled who is to be the President of the United States for four years from March 4, but during the interval between this time and that, when the result … Continue reading
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Democratic Victory Through Violence– The Eufaula Riot of 1874 and Southern Redemption
On November 3, 1874, Captain A.S. Daggett of the 2nd U.S. infantry sat at his hotel window and watched horrified as bloodshed ensued outside the polls on the main street of Eufaula, Alabama on election day. An altercation outside a … Continue reading
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Gold Wins: William Jennings Bryan’s 1896 Defeat
On November 3, 1896, William Jennings Bryan awoke early in Omaha, Nebraska. Looking convivial and relaxed, the Democrat ate a hearty breakfast and headed downtown to travel by train to Lincoln in a regular car. Upon his arrival in the … Continue reading
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The Campaign of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt and the Election of 1912
The River of Roosevelt – Rio Da Roosevelt – runs 400 miles through western Brazil, finally meeting the Amazon River. It is among the harshest tributaries of the Amazon, and until less than one century ago, was thought to be … Continue reading