New Underground Railroad Handbook with NPS
Rising High School Seniors –Apply by May 31, 2024
2024 Wert Lecture with Harold Holzer
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New Underground Railroad Handbook with NPS
(Carlisle, PA) The House Divided Project at Dickinson College has partnered with the National Park Service Network to Freedom to launch a new Underground Railroad Online Handbook that contains over twenty essays from the nation’s leading scholars on aspects of the resistance to slavery through escape and flight. Project director...
Rising High School Seniors –Apply by May 31, 2024
Rising high school seniors from across south central Pennsylvania and elsewhere are invited to apply for the free, two-week Knowledge for Freedom seminar taking place this July on the historic campus of Dickinson College in Carlisle (July 14-July 26, 2024). The program is highly competitive and provides preference to low-income...
2024 Wert Lecture with Harold Holzer
On Thursday evening, March 28, 2024, prize-winning author and acclaimed historian Harold Holzer will deliver the annual J. Howard Wert Lecture from the lectern that was on the speaker’s platform on November 19, 1863 when Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. Holzer will speak on “Lincoln and Immigration,”...
Dickinson College students and staff are creating a wide variety of resources to commemorate the 150th anniversary of both the Civil War (2011-15) and Reconstruction (2015-27) in order to help America’s classrooms learn more about this turbulent era.
House Divided Project at Dickinson College
Matthew Pinsker, Director
61 N. West Street
PO Box 1773 / Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013
Tel: 717-245-1865
hdivided@dickinson.edu