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,…
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Exhibits
The House Divided Project at Dickinson College produced this exhibit for the Google Cultural Institute in November 2013 to help commemorate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address. For more details, click here. Featured Dickinson Exhibits Daniel Anthony…
Videos
A powerful student-produced documentary short film about an escaped slave who became an American citizen. For more details, including the research journal behind this extraordinary discovery, click here. Featured Dickinson Videos Tour of Gettysburg Battlefield Tour of Ford’s Theatre Lincoln’s Autobiography…
ESSAY –Interpreting the Upper-Ground Railroad
The essay excerpted below originally appeared in Max van Balgooy, ed., Interpreting African American History and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), 75-88. It argues for a more sophisticated understanding of interpreting Underground Railroad sites, one that emphasizes how open much…