Two websites currently stand out for the access they provide to primary sources about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868. The first from Douglas O. Linder’s quite exceptional “Famous Trials” series. Linder, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) has put together invaluable primary source packets on trials from Socrates to […]
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Oct
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Helpful websites for Johnson Impeachment (1868)
Posted by Matthew Pinsker Published in Historic Periodicals, Images, Reconstruction (1865-1880)no comment
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Oct
08
Maryland Public Television has developed an interactive website containing multiple resources for teaching the story of the Underground Railorad. As stated on their website, the site is, “to help Maryland students in Grades 4 and 8 look more closely at Maryland’s people, stories, and events of that surrounded this important effort.” The site contains several […]
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Oct
08
Mexican War article shows individual connections
Posted by Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Recent NewsI recently read an article in Military History by Martin Dugard entitled “The Warm-up War”. In the article, the author shows how the Mexican War was the first significant military experience for many West Point educated officers that would later serve in the Civil War. Notable names such as Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Joseph […]
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Oct
08
Good article about new Lincoln books
Posted by Matthew Pinsker Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Recent News, Recent ScholarshipA recent USA Today article provides a good overview of some of the best new Lincoln books upcoming in the run up to the bicentennial of his birth in 2009. The article features information about James McPherson’s new work, Tried by War, a study of Lincoln as Commander-In-Chief. Along the way, the story provides some […]
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Oct
08
New exhibit at NY Historical Society
Posted by Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Places to Visit, Recent News“The scale had so far tilted that by 1920 or so, when John Leon Gerome Ferris painted his famous depiction of the surrender at Appomattox, “Let Us Have Peace, 1865” — which is in the show — he put Lee, regal and imposing, bathed in light, in the center of the picture, while a shadowy, supplicant Grant, in muddy boots, approaches from the left. If you didn’t know better, you would think Lee had won.”
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Oct
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Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Posted by Matthew Pinsker Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Lesson Plans, VideoYesterday at a teacher training workshop at the Lincoln Cottage in Washington, I discussed Abraham Lincoln’s use of war powers and his approach to civil liberties with a group of K-12 colleagues from the DC and northern Virginia area. We had an excellent exchange at a forum hosted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation […]
