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By Cassi Stanco, Class of 2013 The past couple of weeks have found me engrossed in a research journal for History 304.  This archival research project was time consuming and, at times, quite frustrating. However, my work on this research … Continue reading →

By Wilson Riccardo This past month, I found myself working on a research project for Professor Pinsker. The goal of the project was simply to create a body of research centered around various points of Carlisle during the Civil War … Continue reading →

By Taylor Bye, Class of 2012 Looking back on my research project on the life and Civil War service of Levi Bowen I can say with certainty there are several lessons to be learned. The first of these goes back … Continue reading →

By:Kristina Niedermayer One of the most useful files that I came across is the drop file titled “Civil War Cumberland County,” file L16.0060. This file of useful information that I previously blogged about, is located at the Cumberland County Historical … Continue reading →

As a brief follow up to my research project on the Shelling of Carlisle, I realize that there were many things that I overlooked. In particular, I overlooked important manuscript collections such as the Himes collection and the Turner collection … Continue reading →

Last night I had a breakthrough with my research. I had already spent three in-depth research sessions in the Cumberland Country archives researching the Hemphill family, who was/is a Carlisle family who immigrated to Cumberland County from Ireland in the … Continue reading →

I made my third visit to the Dickinson College Archives.  I decided to revisit the materials I looked at during my last visit.  They had a lot of useful information, and I would like to center my project around a … Continue reading →

John Osborne and Christine Bombaro (’93) co-wrote “Learning to Read the Signs,” for the February 2010 issue of The History Teacher.  The article explains the pedagogical value of a mock trial that Bombaro implemented in her first-year seminar at Dickinson … Continue reading →