Three Mile Island: Emergency is a collection of materials from the period surrounding the 1979 nuclear accident at power plant near Middletown, PA. The resource center includes government documents, newspaper reports and a variety of other primary sources. There is…
Category: Post-Vietnam
EXHIBIT –Remembering America Since 1945
In spring 2015, Dickinson students in History 118 (US Since 1877) conducted oral histories and produced essays with multi-media appendixes (such as podcasts or videos). Several of these extraordinary projects have been featured in this Storify essay summarizing their work.…
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…
VIDEO –Panels on Presidents at War
A wide range of experts participated in a series of panels in summer 2014 for on the challenges facing American presidents at war. The first panel at the New America Foundation in Washington DC focused on the constitutionality of…