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…
Category: Campaigns & Elections
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…
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…