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…
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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…
EXHIBIT –Digital Lincoln
In 2009, to help commemorate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, the House Divided Project at Dickinson College partnered with the Journal of American History to create a web-based exhibit that would showcase ways that newly emerging digital tools could reshape the…
EXHIBIT –Lincoln Douglas Debates
The House Divided Project at Dickinson College has created an innovative digital classroom on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. The contest between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was really the first public US senatorial campaign in American history and…
COLLECTION –Lincoln’s Writings
NEH EDSITEMENT has named Lincoln’s Writings: The Multi-Media Edition as one of the “Best of the Humanities Web.” The site ranks 150 of Abraham Lincoln’s most teachable documents and provides an arsenal of multi-media learning resources around each one. This…
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 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 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…