The essay below originally appeared in The Weekly Wonk in April 2014, following the announcement of the Supreme Court decision in the case of McCutcheon v. FEC. Campaign Finance Beyond McCutcheon By Matthew Pinsker The history behind the dramatic…
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ESSAY –Emancipation Moments
The essay excerpted below originally appeared in Emancipation at 150: The Impact of Emancipation, a special e-book anthology produced in 2013 on the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln’s Cottage and the US Commission on Civil Rights. Emancipation…
ESSAY –Interpreting the Upper-Ground Railroad
The essay excerpted below originally appeared in Max van Balgooy, ed., Interpreting African American History and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), 75-88. It argues for a more sophisticated understanding of interpreting Underground Railroad sites, one that emphasizes how open much…
ESSAY –Myth of Rivals
In 2008, Matthew Pinsker produced an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times that challenged the way then President-Elect Barack Obama was interpreting the popular study of the Lincoln Administration (Team of Rivals) by presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Pinsker’s short essay has been…
ESSAY –Boss Lincoln
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…
ESSAY –Underground Railroad and Coming of War
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…
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…
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…