In the summer of 2008, historian Fergus Bordewich (Bound for Canaan) and Harriet Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson (Bound for the Promised Land) visited Dickinson College as part of an NEH workshop on the Underground Railroad. They spoke about the subject in a…
Author: Matthew Pinsker
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 –Lincoln’s Autobiography
In late 1859, Abraham Lincoln produced a short autobiographical sketch for a Pennsylvania newspaper that was profiling potential contenders for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination. Dickinson student Leah Miller has produced this sketch as a documentary short video, using the…
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…
ESSAY –Remembering the Sixties From Mankato
In Spring 2015, Dalton Maltz (Class of 2016) conducted an oral history with Prof. Todd Wronski who recalled hearing about the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, and other experiences from that turbulent era. In some way, Wronski was far…
VIDEO –Panels on Presidents at War
A wide range of experts participated in a series of panels in summer 2014 for on the challenges facing American presidents at war. The first panel at the New America Foundation in Washington DC focused on the constitutionality of…
VIDEO –Lectures on Civil War Topics
Catherine Clinton (University of Texas / San Antonio) delivered a powerful lecture about Mary Lincoln on the eve of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death. Title = “Mary Lincoln’s Assassination” (41 min.) Lectures by Matthew Pinsker Underground Railroad Reconsidered…
VIDEO –Close Readings of Lincoln Documents
This short video close reading of Lincoln’s “Blind Memorandum” (1864) by Matthew Pinsker was part of 25 such videos he created for the online “Understanding Lincoln” graduate course, co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. There are now…
VIDEO –Tour of Ford’s Theatre
Matthew Pinsker hosts a video tour for the Ford’s Theatre Society to help commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln Assassination. Tour of Ford’s Theatre (30 minutes / 9 segments)