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…
Category: Antebellum Era
VIDEO –Interviews with Underground Railroad Experts
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…
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…
MAP –Lincoln’s Writings
Built in 2013 for the multi-media edition of Lincoln’s Writings, this map offers a gateway to explore 150 of Abraham Lincoln’s most teachable documents, from his first campaign statement in 1832 to his last speech on April 11, 1865. Lincoln’s…
COLLECTION –House Divided Project
The research engine at the center of the House Divided Project at Dickinson College is essentially a database of tens of thousands of historical documents and images from the period, 1840 to 1880, with a focus on the American Civil…
REFERENCE–Underground Railroad
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
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.