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A powerful student-produced documentary short film about an escaped slave who became an American citizen.  For more details, including the research journal behind this extraordinary discovery, click here.

Featured Dickinson Videos

  • Tour of Gettysburg Battlefield
  • Tour of Ford’s Theatre
  • Lincoln’s Autobiography
  • Close Readings of Lincoln Documents
  • Video excerpts from Burlingame’s Lincoln
  • Lectures on Civil War Era Topics
  • Panels on Presidents at War
  • Civil War documentary short films
  • Confederate family documentary
  • Interviews on Underground Railroad
  • Interviews on Dred Scott Case
  • Interview on Lincoln’s Views on Race & Slavery
  • Interview on Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • Interview on Emancipation
  • Interview on Civil War politics
  • Interview on Sherman’s March

Other Recommended Videos

  • Music Parodies on American History
  • Gilder Lehrman Institute Multi-Media
  • C-SPAN American History

Do-It-Yourself (DIY)

  • Windows MovieMaker Tutorial (Russ Allen)

  • iMovie Tutorial (Leah Miller)

  • Interview with filmmaker Jake Boritt

Editor

Matthew Pinsker
Pohanka Chair for Civil War History
Director, House Divided Project
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013
hdivided@dickinson.edu

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Pathways

  • African American (21)
  • Antebellum Era (28)
  • Campaigns & Elections (33)
  • Civil War (36)
  • Cold War (5)
  • Colonial Era (5)
  • Constitution (13)
  • Diplomacy (6)
  • Early Republic (3)
  • Economics (7)
  • Education (7)
  • Environmental (4)
  • Gilded Age (4)
  • Great Depression (5)
  • Homefront (6)
  • Immigration (4)
  • Journalism (9)
  • Memory (19)
  • Military (10)
  • Music (6)
  • Nationalism (11)
  • Native American (2)
  • Post-Vietnam (4)
  • Poverty (5)
  • Progressive Era (7)
  • Reconstruction (9)
  • Religion (4)
  • Revolutionary War (6)
  • Science & Technology (5)
  • Slavery (24)
  • Southern (10)
  • Urban (8)
  • Vietnam Era (4)
  • Western (4)
  • Women (16)
  • World War I (2)
  • World War II (5)

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