In Fall 2010, Dickinson College student Ben Lyman explored the challenges of soldier voting during the 1944 presidential election. The GI and the Ballot: Election Day 1944
Author: Matthew Pinsker
ESSAY –Election Day 1896 with Marcus Hanna
In Fall 2010, Dickinson College student Ben Lyman tackled the subject of Election Day 1896 through the eyes of Republican national campaign manager Marcus Hanna. The Ohio businessman was the mastermind behind William McKinley’s victory and was subsequently rewarded with…
ESSAY –Election Day 1912
Dickinson College student Will Nelligan produced a creative examination of how ex-president Theodore Roosevelt experienced Election Day on 1912, when he was running as a Progressive or Bull Moose candidate in a three-way contest that included Democrat Woodrow Wilson (the…
ESSAY –Election Day 1896
Peter Wright offers a vivid portrait of William Jennings Bryan on the day of his defeat in 1896. Bryan was the Democratic – Populist candidate for president who was overwhelmed by former Ohio governor William McKinley and the well-financed, well-organized…
IMAGE –Revere’s Boston Massacre Engraving
This famous engraving by Paul Revere depicting the riot in Boston on March 5, 1770, which resulted in the deaths of five colonists (including Crispus Attucks), what the patriot artisan calls here, “The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston…
REFERENCE –Founders Profiles
Dickinson College students study the Founders with great care, because the college itself was part of the American Revolutionary era, established as a school in 1773 and first chartered as a college in 1783. The guiding spirit of the institution…
REFERENCE –Landmark Cases
Dickinson history majors in the senior seminar on the US Constitution have been attempting to build a series of research guides on Landmark Supreme Court cases. Their work is evolving, but can be viewed at the History 404 course site…
ESSAY –Boss Lincoln
The essay by Matthew Pinsker originally appeared in The Living Lincoln, a collection of essays edited in 2011 by Thomas Horrocks, Harold Holzer, and Frank Williams in 2011 for Southern Illinois University Press. The essay analyzes newly discovered documents that…
ESSAY –Underground Railroad and Coming of War
This essay by Matthew Pinsker originally appeared History Now (Winter 2010), an online magazine of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It offers a concise explanation for why the Underground Railroad should be considered a primary factor in the coming…
ESSAY –Man of Consequence
This essay originally appeared in Illinois History Teacher 16 (2009), pp. 16-33. It offer a compact overview of how Abraham Lincoln rose to power during the antebellum political crisis. Man of Consequence: Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s By Matthew Pinsker “The…