{"id":4543,"date":"2014-02-12T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2016-06-13T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T01:02:00","slug":"our-top-ten-lincoln-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2014\/02\/12\/our-top-ten-lincoln-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Top Ten Lincoln Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lincoln<\/a>To honor Lincoln’s 205th birthday, we are tweeting out the top ten Lincoln resources from House Divided. \u00a0But here is the full list:<\/p>\n

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#1 \u00a0 \u00a0Lincoln’s Writings: The Multi-Media Edition<\/a><\/p>\n

Created by participants in the “Understanding Lincoln” open online graduate course (offered in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History), this site (still in development) features 150 of Lincoln’s “most teachable” documents and offers a full array of multi-media resources designed to help teach them in the K-12 and undergraduate classroom. \u00a0This site is especially useful for Common Core alignments.<\/p>\n

#2 \u00a0 Building the Digital Lincoln (Journal of American History)<\/a><\/p>\n

Created as part of the Lincoln Bicentennial anniversary, this site offers a snapshot of where the “Digital Lincoln” stood as of 2009, and includes a host of examples of research and presentation tools, especially designed for serious student and academic scholars.<\/p>\n

#3 \u00a0 Emancipation Digital Classroom<\/a><\/p>\n

Created in part to help transform insights from James Oakes’s prize-winning study,\u00a0Freedom National\u00a0<\/em>(2013) into use for the modern-day classroom, this site presents an array of primary and secondary source tools for studying the complicated but fascinating subject of emancipation and abolition.<\/p>\n

#4 \u00a0Unofficial Teacher’s Guide to Spielberg’s Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n

This “unofficial” guide includes access to Tony Kushner’s script, a full cast of characters (with photo comparisons to actual historical figures), and extensive analysis of the artistic license in the film and the historical reaction to Steven Spielberg’s important movie project.<\/p>\n

#5 \u00a0Lincoln-Douglas Debates Digital Classroom<\/a><\/p>\n

This site offers a clickable word cloud of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and host of other rare primary sources for use in studying these critical texts.<\/p>\n

#6 \u00a0Abraham Lincoln in the House Divided Research Engine<\/a><\/p>\n

The House Divided Research Engine is a Drupal-based content management system that contains over 12,000 public domain images and tens of thousands of documents and other historical records. \u00a0The link above takes users directly to Abraham Lincoln’s main record page and offers a well-curated gateway for Lincoln research.<\/p>\n

#7 \u00a0Lincoln’s Gettysburg Addresses (Google Cultural Institute)<\/a><\/p>\n

This short but compelling exhibit came together as part of the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and helps visitors understand the evolution of the document, including a sharp analysis of all five manuscript versions of the address in Lincoln’s handwriting.<\/p>\n

#8 \u00a0Lincoln’s Autobiographical Sketch (YouTube & RapGenius)<\/a><\/p>\n

Dickinson College students Leah Miller and Will Nelligan helped create short but engaging tools for studying Lincoln’s most important autobiographical writing –a sketch he produced in late 1859 to help launch his presidential bid. \u00a0There is a six minute YouTube video of the sketch and an annotated edition of it through the new platform at RapGenius.<\/p>\n

#9 \u00a0Burlingame’s Lincoln Biography (Teaching Edition)<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Burlingame’s\u00a0prize-winning Abraham Lincoln: A Life (2008)\u00a0<\/em>is the most important new multi-volume study of Lincoln, but it is difficult to teach because it is so lengthy. \u00a0With permission, however, from both the author and the publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press), we have created short visually enhanced excerpts from the work that focus on the election of 1860 and include clickable footnotes, allowing teachers and students to “see” Burlingame’s sources directly.<\/p>\n

#10 \u00a0Mash Up of Collected Works, Lincoln Day-By-Day, and Lincoln Papers<\/a><\/p>\n

Created by technologist Rafael Alvarado, this mash up includes an integrated interface allowing users to see the online edition of Lincoln’s\u00a0Collected Works\u00a0<\/em>(his known writings),\u00a0Lincoln Day-By-Day\u00a0<\/em>(his daily schedule), and\u00a0The Abraham Lincoln Papers At the Library of Congress\u00a0<\/em>(the bulk of his extant correspondence) for the essential “one-stop” shopping experience. \u00a0There is nothing else quite like this “timemap” available on the Internet –a must-see for serious and aspiring scholars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To honor Lincoln’s 205th birthday, we are tweeting out the top ten Lincoln resources from House Divided. \u00a0But here is the full list:   #1 \u00a0 \u00a0Lincoln’s Writings: The Multi-Media Edition Created by participants in the “Understanding Lincoln” open online graduate course (offered in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History), this site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,170,4760,82,172,81,174,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-editors-choice","category-history-online","category-lesson-plans","category-letters-diaries","category-recent-news","category-recent-scholarship","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}