The Underground Railroad research guide offers a true gateway to online resources on the subject, featuring hundreds of hard-to-find records, documents, images, videos, and other multi-media content. Last updated in 2015. UGRR Research Guide
Author: Matthew Pinsker
MAP –Civil War Era
This map is built around snippets from Louis Masur’s The Civil War: A Concise History (2011) and a host of resources from the House Divided Project at Dickinson College.
MAP –American Revolution
This map is built around snippets from Gordon Wood’s The American Revolution (2002) and a host of resources from Dickinson College and other institutions.
MAP –Atlantic Slavery
Dickinson students Mary Chobanian, Cory Palmer and Kyle Reese helped create this map built on snippets from David Brion Davis’s Inhuman Bondage (2006), a sobering study of the rise and fall of Atlantic slavery, for their course in Spring 2012, History 211:…
VIDEO –Henry W. Spradley, Citizen
Produced in 2011 by Dickinson College student Colin MacFarlane (Class of 2012), this 11 minute documentary short film offers a model for student-centered research. The fascinating story explores Colin’s attempt to learn more about black soldiers from Carlisle, Pennsylvania who…