{"id":343,"date":"2015-09-05T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/?p=343"},"modified":"2015-09-05T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T13:52:25","slug":"video-lincolns-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/video-lincolns-autobiography\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211;Lincoln&#8217;s Autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late 1859, Abraham Lincoln produced a short autobiographical sketch for a Pennsylvania newspaper that was profiling potential contenders for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination. \u00a0Dickinson student Leah Miller has produced this sketch as a documentary short video, using the voice of Dickinson professor Todd Wronski (as Lincoln) and a host of images available inside the House Divided research engine. \u00a0This is a very short, teachable document. \u00a0Please check out supporting resources below, including a handout and a C-SPAN video showing how Matthew Pinsker teaches this subject in his classroom at Dickinson.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BEU-0NfWONQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Handout-Lincoln-Autobiography.pdf\">Handout &#8211;Lincoln Autobiography<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Election of 1860,&#8221; Lecture, Dickinson College, Sept. 28, 2010 (C-SPAN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?295696-1\/election-1860\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-345\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Pinsker-on-1860-Election-1024x578.png\" alt=\"Pinsker on 1860 Election\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Pinsker-on-1860-Election-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Pinsker-on-1860-Election-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Pinsker-on-1860-Election-560x316.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Pinsker-on-1860-Election-260x147.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Pinsker-on-1860-Election-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late 1859, Abraham Lincoln produced a short autobiographical sketch for a Pennsylvania newspaper that was profiling potential contenders for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination. \u00a0Dickinson student Leah Miller has produced this sketch as a documentary short video, using the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/video-lincolns-autobiography\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119143,119161,17733],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-era","category-campaigns-elections","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}