{"id":178,"date":"2015-08-30T14:06:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2024-10-22T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:02:36","slug":"essays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/2015\/03\/28\/where-was-william-lloyd-garrison\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-174 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/1865-04-14-Anderson-Beecher-Nicolay1-1024x640-1024x640.png\" alt=\"1865-04-14-Anderson-Beecher-Nicolay1-1024x640\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/1865-04-14-Anderson-Beecher-Nicolay1-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/1865-04-14-Anderson-Beecher-Nicolay1-1024x640-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/1865-04-14-Anderson-Beecher-Nicolay1-1024x640-560x350.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/1865-04-14-Anderson-Beecher-Nicolay1-1024x640-260x163.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/1865-04-14-Anderson-Beecher-Nicolay1-1024x640-160x100.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Pinsker explains the divisions that erupted among abolitionists in his 2015 essay, &#8220;Did the End of the Civil War Mean the End of Slavery?&#8221; \u00a0For more details, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-end-of-civil-war\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Essays by Matthew Pinsker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/abraham-lincoln-campaigns-and-elections\/\">Abraham Lincoln: Campaigns &amp; Elections<\/a> (2002)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-myth-of-rivals\/\">Myth of Rivals<\/a> (2008)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-man-of-consequence\/\">Man of Consequence: \u00a0Lincoln in the 1850s<\/a>\u00a0(2009)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-lincoln-theme-2-0\/\">Lincoln Theme 2.0<\/a> (2009)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-boss-lincoln\/\">Boss Lincoln<\/a>\u00a0(2011)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-lincolns-catty-letters\/\">Lincoln&#8217;s Catty Letters<\/a> (2014)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essays\/mr-spielberg-goes-to-washington\/\">Mr. Spielberg Goes to Washington<\/a> (2016)<\/li>\n<li>When Lincoln Faced Rigged Elections (2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Campaigns &amp; Elections<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-short-history-of-campaign-finance-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Short History of Campaign Finance Reform<\/a> (1997)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2024\/10\/Vaulting-Ambition.pdf\">Lincoln, Clinton and Vaulting Ambition<\/a> (1997)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2024\/10\/PA-Prince.pdf\">Pennsylvania Prince<\/a> (2008)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-mccutcheon-and-campaign-finance-reform\/\">Beyond McCutcheon<\/a> (2014)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-general-jackson-is-dead\/\">General Jackson is Dead<\/a> (2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Underground Railroad &amp; Emancipation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-underground-railroad-and-coming-of-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underground Railroad and Coming of War<\/a>\u00a0(2010)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-emancipation-moments\/\">Emancipation Moments<\/a> (2013)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-interpreting-the-upper-ground-railroad\/\">Interpreting the Upper-Ground Railroad<\/a> (2014)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-end-of-civil-war\/\">Did the End of Civil War Mean the End of Slavery?<\/a> (2015)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-after-1850\/\">After 1850:\u00a0 Reassessing the Fugitive Slave Law<\/a> (2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Model Student Essays<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1860: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-1860-in-springfield-illinois\/\">Election Day in Springfield, Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1884: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-election-day-1884\/\">Mugwumps and Mudslingers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1896: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-election-day-1896\/\">William Jennings Bryan<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-election-day-1896-with-marcus-hanna\/\">Marcus Hanna<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1905: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-boston-mayor-john-honey-fitz-fitzgerald\/\">Boston Mayor John &#8220;Honey Fitz&#8221; Fitzgerald<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1912: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-election-day-1912\/\">Theodore Roosevelt<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-women-and-the-election-of-1912\/\">Women Voters<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1928: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-women-for-hoover\/\">Women for Hoover<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1932: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-norman-thomas-in-1932\/\">Norman Thomas and the Socialist Vote<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1944: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-election-day-1944\/\">GI Ballots<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1948: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-election-of-1948\/\">Election of 1948<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1940s\/50s:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-oral-history-about-cold-war\/\">Oral History About Life During Cold War<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1968:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/podcast-remembering-the-sixties-from-mankato\/\">Oral History About RFK&#8217;s Assassination<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1970:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-oral-history-about-kent-state\/\">Oral History About Kent State<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Pinsker explains the divisions that erupted among abolitionists in his 2015 essay, &#8220;Did the End of the Civil War Mean the End of Slavery?&#8221; 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Other Essays by Matthew Pinsker Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln: Campaigns&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essays\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}