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On Saturday morning, April 16, 2011,  Matthew Pinsker will lead a teacher workshop focused on introducing educators to a variety of the best online resources for the study of the Civil War including many of the new tools provided by the House Divided Project. America’s Civil War magazine has already dubbed House Divided as “one of the most compelling sesquicentennial online projects” and predicts the site “will become a great resource for synthesizing many seemingly disparate elements of how and what we learn and teach about the Civil War.” Bloggers have been equally enthusiastic.  One history teacher / blogger claims that House Divided “will be invaluable in U.S. History classrooms.”

Breakout sessions will include hands-on computer demonstrations, focus groups and special sessions on particular topics related to Abraham Lincoln  and the outbreak of the war.

Matthew Pinsker is the Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War History at Dickinson College and Co-Director of the House Divided Project.  He is the

author of Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home (2003).  During the last five years, he has led professional development workshops on the

Civil War era for more than 1,500 teachers from 45 states.

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If you would like to attend, please complete the form below. If you have any questions, contact us at hdivided@dickinson.edu

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Yale University historian David W. Blight will speak on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 7pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlector Auditorium (ATS) at Dickinson College, providing a keynote address for the opening of the Civil War 150th anniversary and the House Divided Project launch weekend. This event is co-sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.  Renowned author of Race and Reunion: The American Civil War in American Memory (2001), Professor Blight will explore the meaning of the conflict on its 150th anniversary.  A book signing will follow.

David W. Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (for which he received the Bancroft, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass prizes), and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War. He is also the co-author of the bestselling American history textbook, A People and a Nation.

One of the classes that Blight teaches at Yale University is available online through Open Yale Courses. This is not simply a single lecture, as you can listen or watch all twenty seven classes of HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877. As Blight explains, the “primary goal of the course is to understand the multiple meanings of a transforming event in American history.” Transcripts of each lecture are also available.

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