Graduate students in the limited enrollment section of the online course will also have a very special opportunity to participate in the events surrounding the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.  On November 19, 2013, selected graduate students from “Understanding Lincoln”  will be invited to attend the anniversary commemoration in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at no cost –including free travel and accommodations.  After the morning Dedication Day ceremonies, we will host a live-streaming webcast directly from the historic Wills House in Gettysburg where President Lincoln stayed during the night before he delivered his famous address.  Partly through the extraordinary generosity of the Lincoln Leadership Institute, we will then be able to highlight the best multi-media final  projects submitted by students in the course.  These are the students who will be selected by Prof. Pinsker to attend the ceremonies and present their work in a live online session with fellow students and other interested course observers.

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If you’d like to see an example of how this online learning experience works in a history course, please check out this video segment on the Emancipation Proclamation, produced by Gilder Lehrman education coordinator Lance Warren and featuring Prof. Pinsker leading a short, close reading of the January 1, 1863 document.  You might be surprised by what you don’t know about this famous executive order and how much can be gained by going through it almost line-by-line.

Additional Course Information

Faculty Profiles

Matthew Pinsker will be the main instructor for “Understanding Lincoln.”  Pinsker holds the Brian Pohanka Chair for Civil War History at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he also directs the House Divided Project, an innovative effort to create free digital resources on the Civil War Era for K-12 classrooms.  Pinsker is the author of various books and articles on Abraham Lincoln, including Lincoln’s Sanctuary (Oxford, 2003) and the forthcoming Boss Lincoln (W.W. Norton).  Currently, Pinsker serves as a Visiting Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  He is also a Distinguished Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC.

Lance Warren will serve as the chief course producer.  Warren is Director of Digital Projects for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.  He leads Gilder Lehrman’s online education programs and creates original video content for use in K-12 classrooms.  His co-directed film, That World is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town, won the Audience Award for Short Documentary at the 2009 Virginia Film Festival.  Warren received a B.A. in History and Political Science from Syracuse University  and an M.A. in History from Brandeis University.

Course Description

Nobody would have appreciated the power of open online education more than Abraham Lincoln, one of the great self-made, lifelong learners in world history.  This open online graduate history course aspires to create the kind of course that Lincoln would have appreciated. Just about 150 years ago, President Lincoln explained at Gettysburg how he believed that the Civil War would establish what he termed “a new birth of freedom” for the United States.  During our sessions in 2013 (July 23-Nov. 19), Professor Matthew Pinsker will use this anniversary moment to share the latest historical insights about Lincoln as well as to introduce participants to a number of cutting-edge digital resources for the study and teaching of Lincoln’s legacy.  The course will be organized around five popular designations that have been applied to the great president over the years (Railsplitter, Honest Abe, Father Abraham, Great Emancipator, and Savior of the Union) and will dig deeper into each of these themes in order to help explore their origins and assess their validity. In the process, participants will come to better understand Lincoln as man and president, and will also enjoy a unique online platform to share their own insights.

Course Objective

Crowd-sourcing is a phrase used to describe how individuals can help develop online projects by contributing content to them remotely.  Through the “Understanding Lincoln” course, we will attempt an experiment in what might be called “class-sourcing.”  Participants in this course will have the opportunity to develop various types of content that will be published online as part of a forthcoming multi-media edition of Lincoln’s selected writings.  The very best work by course participants will then be featured during a Livestreaming field trip to Gettysburg on November 19, 2013 –the date which marks the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.  We will webcast that day from the historic Wills House where Lincoln slept the night before delivering his famous remarks. Three seminar participants whose work has been judged the best in the course will then be invited to participate in the November 19 events at no cost to themselves –with travel and lodging costs paid for by the course sponsors.

Course Readings

All readings for this course will be freely available online.  Beyond intensive readings of Lincoln’s own letters, speeches and personal documents, participants will also have assigned essays and articles to read from leading historians such as David Blight, Michael Burlingame, Eric Foner, Mark Neely, James Oakes, and Sean Wilentz.

Course Assignments

Graded assignments for this course will include various types of online discussion and written participation as well as a series of short writing assignments, including blogging.  The culmination of the course will involve the production of a major multi-media teaching project with an accompanying research paper that describes the project’s pedagogical intentions.  The final multi-media projects will employ at least one of the digital tools introduced during the course utilized in a way that helps teach Lincoln’s legacy in a creative fashion by presenting various documents and writings from his contemporaries.

 Course Schedule

Dates and times for particular course sessions remain subject to change, but here is a tentative list of key course events:

Friday, July 19 Registration closes

Tuesday, July 23 Seminar Introduction (7-9pm EST)

Thursday, August 1 Discussion section (7-9pm EST)

Wednesday, August 7 Seminar –Lincoln the Railsplitter (7-9pm EST)

Wednesday, August 14 Discussion section (7-9pm EST)

Wednesday, August 21 Seminar –Honest Abe (7-9pm EST)

Wednesday, August 28 Seminar –Father Abraham (7-9pm EST)

Tuesday, September 3 Seminar –Great Emancipator (7-9pm EST)

Tuesday, September 10 Seminar –Savior of the Union (7-9pm EST)

Tuesday, October 15 Final multi-media projects due

Tuesday, November 19 Virtual Field trip –Gettysburg Address with special participant presentations (Time TBA)

Sunday, December 15 Final grades posted

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Civil War Carlisle

The House Divided Project made its official launch on the weekend of April 15 – 16, 2011 as part of a series of events designed to commemorate the beginning of the Civil War 150th anniversary. The launch weekend included a documentary film festival, K-12 teacher workshop, augmented reality walking tours of Civil War Carlisle, and a keynote address by noted historian David Blight from Yale University.

Click on the link below to watch the video

WGAL (NBC) News

Press coverage from the House Divided Project launch:

Dickinson College Magazine

“Acclaimed House Divided web site uses new technology and a Dickinson lens to teach Civil War History.” Click here for the full article

Dickinson College News & Events Features

“Held the week that the nation marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the launch included a film festival, an interactive teachers’ workshop, app-assisted tours of a major Underground Railroad site and a lecture by a nationally noted historian.” Click here for the full article

Harrisburg Patriot-News, April 15, 2011

“Among places with a story are the Old Cumberland County Courthouse in Carlisle, where Dickinson College this weekend will kick off its Civil

War 150th initiative, House Divided, a project five years in the making.”

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Carlisle Sentinel, April 16, 2011

“The trio of films, created as part of the House Divided Project the college has initiated for the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, told the stories of three very different men with very different backgrounds and their very different experiences during the Civil War.” Click here for the full article

Look for “Title,” change “Contains any word” to “Contains,” and enter the newspaper title. (See a screenshot of the correct settings of a search for the New York Times)

As House Divided tries to include at least one document on every day, the project draws content from a number of different newspapers. While

a complete list of newspapers used on the project is not cheap cialis online yet available, you can click

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While music is an important part to any documentary, it can be difficult to find free (and buy cialis online legal) music to download. Listed below are a few sites and selected Civil War Era music from their collections. Also check out House Divided’s public domain music and sound effects.

Band Music from the Civil War Era (Library of Congress Music Division)

• Hunters’ Chorus, from The Rose of Erin (Band)
• Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway (Vocal)
• The Herdsman’s Mountain Song (Vocal)
• Captain Shepherd’s Quickstep (Band)
• Captain Finch’s Quickstep (Band)
• Indiana Polka (Band)
• The Moonbeam Waltzes (Band)
• La Fontaine buy cialis online pharmacy (Piano)
• Slow March: Midnight! (Band)
• Scots Wha Hae: Variations (Piano)
• General Taylor Storming Monterey (Band)
• Lilly Bell Quickstep (Band)
• Door Latch Quickstep (Band)
• Free and Easy (Band)

Civil War Music – Primary Source Set (Library of Congress )

• When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Airforce Band)
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again (John Terrill)

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (University of California – Santa Barbara)

• Battle Cry of Freedom
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Bonnie Blue Flag
• Dixie
• Maryland, My Maryland
• Marching through Georgia

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Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project Collections

• Band music
• Civil War
• Fife and drum
• Patriotic music

Musopen (Non-Profit Organization)

• Stars and Stripes Forever (Vocal)
• The Glory of the Yankee Navy

“The Ultimate Civil War Resource: Dickinson College’s House Divided website endeavors to be the most complete digital archive of the U.S. Civil War. They’ve got it all. Entering the site will automatically give you data for the events of exactly 150 years ago – events, documents, letters, even birthdays of prominent (and not-so-prominent) people, most with informative biographies and great images. The 150th anniversary of the war is coming up, so needless to say this tool will be invaluable in U.S. History classrooms.”

From Matt Karlson at Teaching American History at SW Washington (September 11, 2009):

“Having encountered the Building the Digital Lincoln site, I got curious about what else has been posted by Dickinson College’s House Divided project. I think there is much here of value to teachers!… The Underground Railroad Digital Classroom features many lesson plans, written by university historians and teachers, at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. There are virtual field trips using Google Earth, Sketch-Up, and video. There are links to wonderful documents….The House Divided website, while a work in progress, is a rich resource as is.”

From Ann Tracy Mueller at Lincoln Buff 2 (September 30, 2009):

“You’ll want to be sure to check out the section, “Building the Digital Lincoln,” made possible thanks to a partnership between the Journal of American History and the House Divided Project at Dickinson College. This nifty article tells you everything you ever wanted to know about doing Lincoln research in the digital age. As I told Dr. Pinsker when a friend first shared it with me, “WOW!” It’s truly unbelievable how much Lincoln material is available right from the comfort of you computer. You’ll want to save it as a favorite and go to it often. I know I will. Thanks JAH and Dr. Pinsker. Great stuff!”

From Benjamin Stone at United States History at Stanford University (September 30, 2009):

“…the Journal of American History has partnered with the House Divided Project at Dickinson College, under the direction of Professor Matthew Pinsker to create a fascinating web resource titled “Building the Digital Lincoln.”

From Dr. James Beeghley at Teaching the Civil War With Technology (December 1, 2009):

Nominated “Blog Divided” for 2009 EduBlog Awards for “Best Resource Sharing Blog”

From Civil War Interactive, Naming Blog Divided as part of the Best of the Civil War Blogs (February 17, 2010):

“This attractive site is a project of Dickinson College (Pennsylvania), devoted to a somewhat wider span of time than is usual for “Civil War” blogs. They call it the “House Divided Period” and are open to discussion of any events between around 1840 and 1880. The intent of the operators is to generate teaching aids for educators of any level. Comments are open and readers are not required to register or login to post. Comment moderation is apparently invoked only if misbehavior arises. Looks to be a valuable asset for history teachers, who often feel somewhat isolated at their individual schools.”

From Mystery Blog (March 31, 2010):

“…an excellent resource for students and

educators interested in understanding and teaching the Civil War. Through House Divided, visitors encounter a wide range of historical events, people and resources…Visually, House Divided is an excellent website with lots of images including portraits, interactive maps and virtual field trips that utilize Google Earth , images of nineteenth-century newspapers etc.”

From Dr. Jonathan Rees at “More or Less Bunk” (August 2, 2010):

“So, instead, let me tell what I was doing most of the day. I was watching Matt Pinsker from Dickinson College (who’s here for the week) talk about slavery and he’s got some incredible resources on slavery and the Civil War up over at his place. The visuals at their site on the Dred Scott case, which is actually hosted at Gilder-Lehrman, are particularly good. The picture above is of Dred Scott’s mark (he was illiterate) on his original lawsuit. What a great way to illustrate that point! If the mid-19th century falls within your teaching realm, you should definitely check all this stuff out.”

From Meg in History at Fun With History (February 19, 2011):

“I just keep stumbling upon new great history-geared blogs, and how can I not share them with you. This blog, Blog Divided, is “for anyone teaching or studying the House Divided Era, 1840-1880.” Well, I know lots of students and amateur historians (as well as professional ones) love to study, talk, and argue about the Civil War and the years leading up to and following it. Based on my initial skimming of the blog, this one seems to do the trick. Plus it has some great links as well. It’s based on an interesting project at Dickinson College.”

“House Divided: The Civil War Era and Dickinson College,” dedicated to the memory of Civil War historian Brian C. Pohanka (Class of 1977), is one of the most compelling sesquicentennial online projects I’ve come across. While the goal of the project – to create resources for teachers and students to bring the Civil War to life – is standard fare, it is the way Dickinson approaches its goal that is so special.
The site leverages the college’s own rich 226-year history to provide a “window and a starting point” to investigate the war and the events that led up to it. With a student body comprised almost evenly of Southerners and Northerners before the war, Dickinson “itself was a House Divided and its graduates were deeply involved in the sectional crisis.” President James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln’s predecessor, and Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, are but two of the many alumni whose letters, diaries and other documents have been digitized on the site.
But the digital collection is not just limited to Dickinson alumni; it includes the histories of thousands of individuals, places and events that contributed to the war and its aftermath. The site’s main page is organized in a format titled the “Daily Report” that lists birthdays, events and documents that occurred 150 years before a specific date. The site will cover the period from 1840 to 1880.
House Divided also includes almanacs, galleries, blogs, a digital classroom and much more. But one additional feature that reflects Dickinson’s forward thinking is the convention of dubbing it the “Draft Edition” from June 2008 until April 2011. This caveat means that despite the site’s abundance of material and functionality, it is still a work in progress and will not be fully fact-checked or functional until its official

launch of the eve of the 2011 sesquicentennial. Labeling the site a draft edition can be seen as a throwback

– an instance in which a process from old media is adapted and married to new media. But I expect the House Divided site

will become a great resource for synthesizing many seemingly disparate elements of how and what we learn and teach about the Civil War.”

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Alternatively you

can exclude a specific image type from a search. For example, you could search for “Lincoln” and

prevent title page images from appearing in search results. While on the image collection page, Look for “Type” and –

• Change “Is one of” to “Is none of”
• Select image type that you want to exclude from the drop down menu

House Divided’s Image Collection includes the following image types -

• 3D design
• Cartoon
• Chart/graph (Includes word clouds)
• Document
• Drawing
• Engraving
• Map
• Other
• Painting
• Photograph
• Print
• Title page

of House Divided Project co-director Matthew Pinsker. C-SPAN cameras followed Pinsker as he led a discussion cialis online about Abraham Lincoln and the election of 1860 for a class at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. During the session, Pinsker premiered a documentary short film recently created for Journal Divided. “Honest Abe” is one of six videos created to

support new interactive essays based on excerpts from the unedited manuscript of Michael Burlingame’s Abraham Lincoln: A Life (2008). Other essays include “Writing Lincoln’s Lives,” “Railsplitter,” and “Make No Contracts.”

You can watch the full 75-minute episode on C-SPAN’s website.

Images are a critical part of any documentary. Listed below are several sites where you can find images to use in your documentaries.

Selected Sites – Images for Documentaries

	Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog – Visitors can quickly search the entire catalog of images or by specific collection. These collections cover a wide variety of topics, including Cartoon Drawings, Civil War Photographs, Fenton Crimean War Photographs, and Wright Brothers Negatives. If available download the image as a TIFF file for best quality.
	Library of Congress Map Collection – Visitors can search the entire collection or by specific map type (i.e. Cities and Towns ; Discovery and Exploration ; Military Battles and Campaigns ; Transportation and Communication , etc) .
	New York Public Library Digital Gallery - Over 700,000 images from the New York Public Library’s collections are available through this digital gallery. One can search the entire gallery, by category (Cities & Buildings, Industry & Technology, etc) , or by a specific collection (Civil War Medical Care, Early Landscape Photography of the American West, etc)
	Flickr Commons Over 50 institutions, including the Library of Congress and the National Archives, have added images to this collection. buy viagra online Click here to see a list of institutions that have participated in Flickr Commons. All of the images in this collection have “no known copyright restrictions.”

Flickr Commons – Civil War Era Images

Listed below are

several institutions that have Civil War era material available on Flickr

Commons.

	Cornell University Library – Political Americana This collection contains a variety of material (including artifacts, photographs, prints, posters) related to US politics.
	Library of Congress – Abraham LincolnWhile only a small set, curators have selected images of Abraham Lincoln from different periods of his life as well as photographs of family members.
	SMU Central University Libraries – Civil War Photographs . This collection includes cartes-de-visite of Civil War soldiers and generals. The full digital collection is available here.
	U.S. National Archives – Mathew Brady Civil War Photographs Over 6,000 images from this collection have been digitzed. You can browse the images by subject, including Appomattox, Camp Scenes, Richmond, and Washington, DC.