Overview When Booker T. Washington recalled the outbreak of the Civil War, he claimed that “every slave on our plantation felt and knew that, though other issues were discussed, the primal one was that of slavery.” Washington’s memory of life as young slave…
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ESSAY –1860 in Springfield, Illinois
House Divided Project intern Don Sailer produced a vivid description of the 1860 Election Day in Springfield, Illinois. Sailer doesn’t mention this fact in his concise post, but Abraham Lincoln only barely won his hometown in 1860, prevailing over Stephen A.…
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 –Burlingame’s Lincoln
Historian Michael Burlingame published a multi-volume prize-winning biography of Abraham Lincoln in 2008 that offered a host of new insights, details, and fresh evidence on the great president’s life and career. Yet that important new study contains over 2,000 pages of…
VIDEO –Confederate Family
The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania holds a series of remarkable wartime letters from a Texas farmer who served in the Confederate army. William Elisha Stoker described life in the army and openly expressed his concerns about the…
VIDEO –Civil War Documentaries
In 2011, Dickinson students and staff at the House Divided Project produced two documentary short films to help commemorate the upcoming 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. “From Carlisle to Andersonville” by John Osborne and Don Sailer offered the…
Contributors
Student contributors for this project include undergraduates from Dickinson College and graduate students who have participated in Matthew Pinsker’s online courses for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. In some cases, we also have middle and high school student contributors,…