This essay by Matthew Pinsker originally appeared History Now (Winter 2010), an online magazine of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It offers a concise explanation for why the Underground Railroad should be considered a primary factor in the coming…
Category: Civil War
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 –Daniel Anthony of Kansas
Dickinson student Taylor Bye created a fascinating web exhibit that explores that life of Daniel Anthony, the brother of Susan B. Anthony. Daniel was a noted abolitionist, Civil War soldier and Kansas journalist, whose life and career spanned some of…
COLLECTION –Their Own Words
The Dickinson Library has digitized over 34,000 pages of text (both published and unpublished) that were written by Dickinsonians from the 18th,19th, and 20th centuries. The wide-ranging collection covers numerous topics, but the collection is especially strong for the following figures:…
COLLECTION –Slavery and Abolition
The libraries at Dickinson College and Millersville University formed a partnership to digitize more than 24,000 pages of nineteenth-century US pamphlets on slavery and abolition. Slavery & Abolition in the US
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…
VIDEO –Interview on Sherman’s March
In this 2008 interview conducted at Dickinson College, historian Mark Neely was asked whether Sherman’s March to the Sea in 1864 and across the Carolinas in 1865 were examples of total war. He denied that they were and tried to…
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 Emancipation
Robert Engs (1943-2013) was a leading historian of nineteenth-century America who visited Dickinson College in spring 2008 as a presenter in one of our teacher workshops. While on campus, he offered some insights about how to explain the outlook of former…