In spring 2015, Dickinson student Jordan Forry conducted a thoughtful, wide-ranging interview with his grandmother about the nature of life on the home front of the early Cold War. She recalls atomic bomb drills, but also remembers that her family…
Author: Matthew Pinsker
ESSAY –Oral History About Kent State
In spring 2015, Dickinson student Matt Pasquali conducted an oral history with Patricia Mackey on the 1970s shootings at Kent State. Mackey was not a student in the Ohio university, but she remembers vividly how the tragedy affected her campus…
PODCAST –Lincoln’s Writings
Dickinson theatre professor Todd Wronski has become the “voice of Lincoln” for the House Divided Project. He has recorded dozens of podcasts acting as Abraham Lincoln reading documents from Lincoln’s Writings: The Multi-Media edition, an award-wining website created by the…
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 –Interview on Sherman’s March
In this 2008 interview conducted at Dickinson College, historian Mark Neely was asked whether Sherman’s March to the Sea in 1864 and across the Carolinas in 1865 were examples of total war. He denied that they were and tried to…
VIDEO –Interview on Civil War Politics
Pulitzer Prizer winning historian Mark Neely offers thoughtful comments on two-party politics and the suppression of civil liberties in the North during the American Civil War. Matthew Pinsker interviewed Neely on the Dickinson College campus in spring 2008.
VIDEO –Interview on Emancipation
Robert Engs (1943-2013) was a leading historian of nineteenth-century America who visited Dickinson College in spring 2008 as a presenter in one of our teacher workshops. While on campus, he offered some insights about how to explain the outlook of former…
VIDEO –Interview on Lincoln-Douglas Debates
In 2008, Lincoln scholar Matthew Pinsker offered a series of short interviews on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in preparation for a teacher workshop about the famous senatorial contest on its 150th anniversary. These videos were part of a companion digital classroom…
VIDEO –Interview on Lincoln’s Racial Views
Here Lincoln scholar Matthew Pinsker offers his views on whether or not Lincoln was a racist and how to explain Lincoln’s views on slavery. These interviews were recorded at Dickinson College in the summer of 2009. The interviewers were two…
VIDEO –Interviews on Dred Scott Case
In 2007, the House Divided Project at Dickinson College hosted a teacher workshop on the 150th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision. Historians such as Steven Hahn (University of Pennsylvania) and Lea VanderVelde (University of Iowa College of Law) provided…