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…
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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 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…
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…
VIDEO –Interviews on Dred Scott Case
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…
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 –Confederate Family
The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania holds a series of remarkable wartime letters from a Texas farmer who served in the Confederate army. William Elisha Stoker described life in the army and openly expressed his concerns about the…
VIDEO –Lectures on Civil War Topics
Catherine Clinton (University of Texas / San Antonio) delivered a powerful lecture about Mary Lincoln on the eve of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death. Title = “Mary Lincoln’s Assassination” (41 min.) Lectures by Matthew Pinsker Underground Railroad Reconsidered…
VIDEO –Close Readings of Lincoln Documents
This short video close reading of Lincoln’s “Blind Memorandum” (1864) by Matthew Pinsker was part of 25 such videos he created for the online “Understanding Lincoln” graduate course, co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. There are now…