Author: burker
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How can I find all of the Zoomify Images on House Divided?
How can I find all of the Zoomify Images on House Divided?Zoomify is a software program that allows online users to pan and zoom digital images. House Divided currently has over 160 free zoomable images in our Image Collection. These include zoomable photographs, city and state maps, panoramic maps, battlefield maps, and other types of images…
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I found a mistake on House Divided. Who should I contact?
From June 2008 until April 2011, we plan to label our work for the House Divided website as a Draft Edition. This means that you should use with this site some caution and plenty of patience because what you see is a work in progress. There will be gaps and some mistakes and lots of…
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Magazine Hails Project’s “Sophistication”
Claiming that the fast-growing House Divided research engine shows admirable “sophistication,” Civil War Times recently reviewed elements of the project in the August 2010 issue: “The House Divided Project builds on the experience of Dickinson College’s graduates to interpret the war era. Dickinson boasts a president, a chief justice of the U. S. Supreme Court…
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Grand Review Event at Dickinson Library
On Sunday September 12, 2010 members of the White Carnation League met at Dickinson College’s Waidner-Spahr Library for an opportunity to conduct research and share information with the House Divided Project’s staff and student interns. This event was organized as part of the Pennsylvania Grand Review, which in early November 2010 commemorated Harrisburg’s decision in November 1865…
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Research Engine
The House Divided research engine offers access to thousands of historic images and records covering a period from 1840 to 1880. Visitors enter the site exactly 150 years ago from today allowing them to experience everything from the headlines of the moment to profiles of the people who were celebrating birthdays at that time. All…
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Classroom Sites
To help teachers use the abundant primary source materials available through House Divided, we have begun to create a series of special classroom sites. The Underground Railroad Digital Classroom, for example, offers hundreds of documents, images, and stories to help explain the importance of the antebellum effort to help runaway slaves. The classroom also includes dozens…
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Production Sites
The House Divided Project also currently features a blog, an online journal and a new atlas. The Blog Divided provides useful descriptions of the latest digital tools available across the web for the entire period, 1840 to 1880. The Journal Divided is a new site that hosts interactive essays on period topics, using a format…
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Special Exhibitions
From its beginnings, the House Divided Project has sought out institutional partners to create a series of engaging special exhibitions on the Civil War era. Visit “Building the Digital Lincoln,” a joint effort with the Journal of American History to see some exciting new tools for researching Abraham Lincoln. Or come see the poignant exhibit about…
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Social Media
The House Divided Project exists to share resources freely with all engaged teachers and students of any age and from any country. In that spirit, we are promoting our content in social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We have posted word clouds in the Wordle Gallery, lesson plans at Scribd, and our…