The following 150+ examples of outstanding student work derive from some of the best submissions over the last decade to Prof. Pinsker’s Dickinson College classes (both undergraduate and online graduate) and also from the hard-working summer interns at the House Divided Project.
History Methods Posts
- Fiona Clarke, Using Ancestry with Class of 1868 (Fall 2016)
- Fiona Clarke, College Archives and Class of 1868 (Fall 2016)
- Amanda Donoghue, Researching Indian School at CCHS (Fall 2016)
- Tom Forte, Researching Fifteenth Amendment at CCHS (Fall 2017)
- Sarah Goldberg, Researching Temperance Reform in Black Atlanta (2017-18)
- Colin Macfarlane, Researching Henry W. Spradley (Spring 2011)
- Leah Miller, A New Lincoln Letter (Spring 2012)
- Rachel Morgan, Johnson Family & Genealogical Research (Summer 2017)
- Samantha Reiersen, Class of 1862 and Ancestry (Fall 2016)
- Becca Solnit, Researching India Lobby During WWII (2011-12)
- Becca Stout, Dickinson’s janitors (Spring 2018)
- James van Kuilenburg, Researching Henry W. Spradley (Fall 2019)
- Cooper Wingert, Dickinson’s founders and slavery (Spring 2018)
- Cooper Wingert, Researching Fugitive Slave Law (2019-20)
Close Reading Posts
- Brendan Birth, Lincoln to Andrew Johnson, September 11, 1863 (Spring 2015)
- Mary Beth Donnelly, First Letter to Eliza Gurney (GRAD Summer 2013)
- Jacob Heybey, Third Lincoln-Douglas Debate (Spring 2015)
- Jesse O’Neill, Letter to Eliza Browning (GRAD Summer 2014)
- Moyra Schauffler, Lincoln’s Response to Seward (Spring 2015)
- Ryan Schutte, Letter to Carl Schurz, 1862 (Spring 2015)
- Katri Thiele, Lincoln’s 1861 Fragment on Constitution (Spring 2015)
- Ellen Tuttle, Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation (Spring 2015)
- Megan VanGorder, Letter to Fanny McCullough (GRAD Summer 2014)
Essay Posts
- Sarah Aillon, James Buchanan & Suppression of Slave Trade (Spring 2019)
- Melinda Critzer, Political Parties and US Foreign Policy (Fall 2011)
- Anna Crowell, James Mann in “Conversations with History” (Fall 2011)
- Anna Hansen, Mann on Political Parties (Fall 2011)
- Zach Kalman, Tracking Anti-Semitism (Fall 2014)
- Grace Lange, Between Rhetoric and Policies (Fall 2011)
- Will Nelligan, Zelikow: Foreign Policy of the Future (Fall 2011)
- Andrew Nissman, A Warning from the Past (Fall 2014)
- Moyra Schauffler, Fear in the Early Cold War (Fall 2014)
- Sam Weisman, Idealism in the Rosenberg Case (Fall 2014)
Election Day Posts
- Trevor Diamond, Election of 1948 (Fall 2010)
- Leah Kaplan, 1932 Socialists and Election Fraud (Fall 2010)
- Leah Kaplan, Socialists and Students in 1936 (Fall 2010)
- Ben Lyman, Marcus Hanna in 1896 (Fall 2010)
- Ben Lyman, GI Ballots in 1944 (Fall 2010)
- Will Nelligan, 1905 Boston Mayor’s Race (Fall 2010)
- Will Nelligan, Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 (Fall 2010)
- Alex Poeton, Women Voters in 1912 (Fall 2010)
- Ryan Schutte, 1874 Elections in Eufaula (Fall 2016)
- Peter Wright, Election of 1884 (Fall 2010)
- Peter Wright, William Jennings Bryan in 1896 (Fall 2010)
Landmark Cases Posts
- Gina Gonsalez, In re Neagle (1890) (Fall 2010)
- Gina Gonsalez, McLaurin v. Oklahoma (1950) (Fall 2010)
- Nate Grefe, Sweatt v. Painter (1950) (Fall 2010)
- Abigail Hazen, The Prize Cases (1863) (Fall 2010)
- Viveka Jahn, Smith v. Allwright (1944) (Fall 2010)
- Elizabeth Kalaris, Williams v. Mississippi (1898) (Fall 2010)
- Allie Mansfield, Bailey v. Alabama (1908-10) (Fall 2010)
- Artie Phinney, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) (Fall 2010)
- Artie Phinney, Engel v. Vitale (1962) (Fall 2010)
- Jake Rainwater, Giles v. Harris (1903) (Fall 2010)
- Jake Rainwater, Gayle v. Browder (1956) (Fall 2010)
- Brandon Rothenberg, Luther v. Borden (1849) (Fall 2010)
- Brandon Rothenberg, Brown II (1955) (Fall 2010)
Mapping Posts
- Michael Abu, Panay Incident (Fall 2014)
- Lauren Benton, Mary Prince (Fall 2016)
- Michael Borsch, Susie King Taylor (Fall 2016)
- Tom Forte, Battle of Gettysburg (History 118, Fall 2016)
- George Gilbert, Good Neighbor Policy (Spring 2017)
- George Gilbert, William Parker (Fall 2017)
- Julianne Greco, Boxer Rebellion (Fall 2011)
- Imran Hasan, Coming of World War I (Spring 2016)
- Lauren Kennedy, Dollar Diplomacy (Spring 2019)
- Jack Lodge, Paul Jennings (Fall 2017)
- Aidan McDonald, Missionary Ridge (Spring 2016)
- Rachel Morgan, Harriet Jacobs (Fall 2017)
- Will Nelligan, 1842 Maine Boundary Brawl (Fall 2011)
- Moyra Schauffler, US Entry into World War II (Fall 2014)
- Anthony Scioscia, Cuban Missile Crisis (Fall 2014)
- Abigail Stasior, Elizabeth Keckly (Fall 2016)
- Maria Villotti, Josiah Henson (Fall 2017)
- Cooper Wingert, James Williams (Fall 2017)
Oral Histories
- Andrea Bisbjerg, Prof. Doug Stuart as Suspected Spy (Spring 2016)
- Christina Braxton, From the Navy to Black Panthers (Spring 2015)
- Ashlyn Buffum, Hurricanes in the 1950s (Spring 2017)
- Isabel Burlingame, Vietnam Era Protests (Spring 2015)
- Glenn Carr, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (Spring 2015)
- Ryan Cohane, 1987 Wall Street Crash (Spring 2017)
- Liam Donahue, Phil Shevlin and Baseball (Spring 2018)
- Killian Donohue, Watergate (Spring 2017)
- Sam Drabkin, Fighting AIDS in the late 1980s (Spring 2015)
- David Drawbaugh, Integration in Atlanta (Fall 2017)
- Matthew Ferry, Integration in Philadelphia (Spring 2015)
- Jordan Forry, American Homefront during the Cold War (Spring 2015)
- Noah Frank, Vietnam Era Draft Lottery (Fall 2017)
- Rachel Glick, Civil Rights in Birmingham (Spring 2015)
- Alex Glonti, 1987 Wall Street Crash (Spring 2017)
- Sarah Goldberg, Anti-War Movement at Dickinson (Spring 2016)
- Charlotte Heroux, Marshall Plan in France (Spring 2015)
- Dane Huber, A Soldier in Vietnam (Fall 2017)
- Heidi Kim, 1992 LA Race Riots (Fall 2017)
- Patti Kotrady, Vietnam Campus Protests (Spring 2015)
- Molly LaBelle, Oil Crisis of 1973 (Spring 2016)
- Kassidy Lesher, Poverty in the 1950s (Spring 2015)
- Jack Lodge, Vietnam Era Draft Lottery (Spring 2016)
- Andrew Long, Anti-Busing in Boston (Fall 2017)
- Charlie Luparello, 1987 Wall Street Crash (Fall 2017)
- Dalton Maltz, RFK Assassination and the late 1960s (Spring 2015)
- Dana Marecheau, Invasion of Grenada (Spring 2017)
- Caly McCarthy, 1968 Washington DC Race Riots (Spring 2015)
- Patrick Meier, Hydrogen Bomb (Spring 2015)
- Max Menkes, Baby Boomers (Fall 2017)
- Catie Nolan, Spying in Vietnam (Spring 2018)
- Kendal Packo, Hippie Counterculture (Spring 2015)
- Matt Pasquali, Remembering Kent State (Spring 2015)
- Cole Pellicano, An Auto Worker and the UAW (Fall 2017)
- Jake Pesko, Secret Bombing of Laos and Cambodia (Fall 2017)
- Nick Reese, 1967 Newark Race Riots (Spring 2017)
- Mitchell Snyder, Reagan Revolution (Spring 2018)
- Jessica Snydman, 1948 Berlin Crisis (Spring 2015)
- Troy Thornton, 1964 Rochester Race Riots (Spring 2016)
- Roberto Valentino, Cold War in Turkey (Fall 2017)
- Sam Waltman, A Nurse’s Experience with the AIDS Epidemic (Spring 2018)
- Vincent Warzecha, Invasion of Grenada (Fall 2017)
- Sam Weisman, Remembering E.F. Schumacher (Spring 2017)
- Marcus Witherspoon, Korean War (Fall 2017)
- Kaileigh Wright, Title IX and Women’s Sports (Spring 2015)
- Olivia Zoratto, Vietnam Era Protests (Spring 2017)
Video Documentaries
- Amanda Donoghue, 1859 Doy Stampede (Summer 2019)
- David Gillespie, Do They Miss Me at Home? (Spring 2011)
- Sarah Goldberg, First Photograph of Dickinson (Summer 2016)
- Colin Macfarlane, Henry W. Spradley, Citizen (Spring 2011)
- Dana Marecheau / Cooper Wingert, 1854 St. Louis Stampedes (Spring 2020)
- Leah Miller, Lincoln’s Autobiographical Sketch (Summer 2014)
- Rachel Morgan, The Autograph Book, 1861 (Summer 2017)
- David Park, Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Summer 2009)
- Don Sailer, A Texas Farmer’s Civil War (Spring 2010)
- Don Sailer // Singers Divided, Lincoln & Liberty (Spring 2011)
- Don Sailer, From Carlisle to Andersonville (Spring 2011)
- Ryan Schutte, 1874 Eufaula Riot (Fall 2016)
- Sam Weisman, Journeys of Moncure Conway (Summer 2017)
Research Papers
- Hillary Kativa, Carter’s Playboy Interview in the 1976 Election (Spring 2005)
- Brian Krussell, Bound by the Numbers: Robert McNamara (Fall 2009)
- Aidan McDonald, Amos T. Ackerman and Reconstruction (Spring 2016)
- Moyra Schauffler, Madeleine Albright Profile (Fall 2014)
- Becca Solnit, Adlai Stevenson at the UN (Fall 2009)
Web Projects
- Sarah Aillon, Allen Dulles (Spring 2019)
- Taylor Bye, Daniel Anthony of Kansas (Spring 2012)
- Amanda Donoghue, Discovering Joshua Lippincott (Fall 2016)
- Tom Forte, WWI: Fiery Baptism at Little Gibraltar (Spring 2018)
- Tom Forte, July 30, 1864 (Spring 2020)
- Matthew Guariglia, Visions of Red: FBI Blog (Spring 2012)
- China Harvey, Race for the White House: 1864 (GRAD Summer 2016)
- Julie Haueisen, Poetry of Lincoln (GRAD Summer 2016)
- Sam Lorenzo, WWII: Battle of Peleliu (Spring 2018)
- Lois MacMillan, Global Lincoln (Summer 2013)
- Kaileigh McNellis, Civil War Photography (Spring 2020)
- Rachel Morgan, Civil War: Mary Dillon’s Carlisle (Summer 2017)
- Rachel Morgan, Benjamin Rush: Ties to Slavery (Fall 2017)
- Rachel Morgan, WWII: Operation Husky (Spring 2018)
- Jordyn Ney, Furman v. Georgia (Spring 2020)
- Jesse O’Neill, Lincoln’s Wit (GRAD Summer 2014)
- Becca Stout, Thomas Cooper & Slavery (Fall 2017)
- Maeve Thistle, John Taylor Cuddy (Fall 2019)
- Megan VanGorder, Lincoln’s Bloomington (GRAD Summer 2014)
- Maria Villotti, Vietnam: My Lai Massacre (Spring 2018)
- Cooper Wingert, Richard McAllister: Fugitive Slave Commissioner (Fall 2017)
Honors Projects
- Sarah Goldberg, Temperance Reform in Black Atlanta (2017-18)
- Becca Solnit, The Forgotten Lobby: Advocates for India in WWII (2009-10)
- Becca Stout, James Miller McKim and the Abolitionists’ Civil War (2018-19)
- Cooper Wingert, 1850 Fugitive Slave Law (2019-20)