The Gilder Lehrman Institute recently published a new essay by House Divided co-director Matthew Pinsker in their December 2010 issue of History Now. As Pinsker explains in “The Underground Railroad and the Coming of War”: “The Underground Railroad was a metaphor. Yet many textbooks treat it as an official name for a secret network that […]
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History Now – Underground Railroad Essay
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“Of Love And War: 1864: A Civil War Novel For The North”
Posted by sailerd Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Recent NewsCharles Hammer recently wrote a new novel entitled Of Love And War: 1864: A Civil War Novel For The North. As Hammer describes, “The typical Civil War novel usually features a Confederate cavalier, often served by a loyal slave sidekick, who battles gallantly—for what? Actually, battling gallantly is all the South requires in such a […]
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Civil War Letters of the Christie Family
Posted by sailerd Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Letters & Diaries, Recent ScholarshipThe Civil War Letters of the Christie Family at the Minnesota Historical Society offer an interesting perspective from three brothers who served in the Union army. Thomas and William Christie, who were both born in Ireland, enlisted in the First Minnesota Battery in 1861 and participated in the Vicksburg campaign as well as General William […]
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Isaac L. Taylor at Gettysburg
Posted by sailerd Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Letters & DiariesOn July 2, 1863 at 5:40AM Isaac Taylor recorded in his diary that his regiment, the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, had arrived at Gettysburg. “Order from Gen. [John] Gibbon read to us in which he says this is to be the great battle of the war & that any soldier leaving ranks without leave […]
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New York Times Features House Divided Image
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), ImagesA blog post by Jamie Malanowski in the New York Times’ “Disunion” series featured this political cartoon from House Divided’s image collection. In this entry Malanowski explores how President James Buchanan addresses the secession crisis in his last State of the Union message to Congress in December 1860. “Buchanan at long last waded into the secession […]
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Newspapers across the country published President Abraham Lincoln’s first Inaugural Address in March 1861, but not all included the correct version. Editors in New Orleans had, as the Chicago (IL) Tribune explained, “horribly botched” the speech. Not only had “words [been] altered,” but sentences [were] cut in two in the middle and other sentences [were] […]
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Journal Divided featured on C-SPAN
Posted by sailerd Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Recent Scholarship, Video“American History TV” on C-SPAN 3 featured an episode inside the classroom of House Divided Project co-director Matthew Pinsker. C-SPAN cameras followed Pinsker as he led a discussion 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 […]
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