Our Editors
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Matthew Pinsker teaches courses in U.S. political, legal and diplomatic history. His research focuses on the career of Abraham Lincoln, partisanship in the Civil War era, American constitutionalism, the Underground Railroad and the history of U.S. campaigns and elections. Pinsker is the co-director of the House Divided project. |
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Don Sailer graduated from Dickinson College as an American history major. His research interests include the Upper South during the secession crisis. Sailer is the assistant director of the House Divided project. |
Our Correspondents
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William Nelligan is a Class of 2014 double-major in history and political science. His academic interests include urban, legal, and political history, as well as public policy, judicial theory and the role of ethnicity in politics. |
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John Osborne teaching interests center on British and modern European history and historical methodology. Present research interests are in public history and the preservation and access of resources and analysis using the World Wide Web. Osborne is the co-director of the House Divided project. |
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Tim Smith is a history major at Dickinson College |
Guest Columnists
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Fergus Bordewich is the author of Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement (2005) and Washington: How Slaves, Idealists, and Scoundrels Created the Nation’s Capital (2008). |
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Rob Hardy is a writer and research associate in classics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. |
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Kate Larson is the author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2003) and The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (2008). |
Previous Correspondents
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Blake Dickinson was a history major and graduated in May 2008. |
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Dave Gillespie studies American history at Dickinson College and is a member of the class of 2011. He studied the Civil War at the Gettysburg Semester at Gettysburg College in 2009. |
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Elizabeth Gorenbergh was a history major with a concentration in American history and graduated in May 2010. After graduation she hopes to go into the teaching profession. |
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Shane Harding is a history major and and is a member of the class of 2012. |
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Anna Lovett was a history major with a concentration in US-Asian Relations and graduated in May 2010. |
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Ben Lyman is an American history major at Dickinson College with a particular interest in military history. He is an avid blogger and considers it one of his favorite pastimes. |
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Brenna Mary McKelvey is a history major entering her junior year at Dickinson College. |
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Morgan Mintz graduated in May 2010. |
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Leigh Oczkowski is a history major entering her junior year at Dickinson College. |
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Dave Park was a history major and graduated in May 2010. |
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Jacob Rainwater is a history major entering his senior year at Dickinson College. |
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Brandon Matthew Rothenberg is a history major and is a member of the Class of 2011. |
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Becca Solnit is a history major entering her junior year at Dickinson College. She enjoys studying American and diplomatic history. |
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Russell Toris is a computer science major and will graduate in 2011. |
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Joanna Williams was a history major and graduated in May 2009. |
