{"id":3130,"date":"2015-06-25T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T20:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2015-06-25T22:36:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T02:36:45","slug":"exploring-the-underground-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2015\/06\/25\/exploring-the-underground-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Underground Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/files\/2010\/05\/hd_gallery1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-283\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/files\/2010\/05\/hd_gallery1-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibits\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/files\/2010\/05\/hd_gallery1-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/files\/2010\/05\/hd_gallery1.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Carlisle, PA,\u00a0June 25, 2015) Today, the House Divided Project released an expanded online research guide for the Underground Railroad which includes links to dozens of highly rated sites. \u00a0Teachers and students can now explore primary source documents from the most active vigilance committees in cities like Boston, New York and Philadelphia. \u00a0They can explore first-rate scholarship, including several full-text essays, and they will be introduced to a wide variety of multi-media tools, including videos, interactive maps, and extensive image galleries. \u00a0Those interested in using the guide can access\u00a0it at Project Director Matthew Pinsker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/underground-railroad\/\" target=\"_blank\">online Civil War course<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pinsker will be teaching a special teacher seminar on the Underground Railroad for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History this summer in New York City, July 13-17, 2015. \u00a0You can find out more about the summer seminar program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/programs-exhibitions\/2015-teacher-seminars\" target=\"_blank\">at the Gilder website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a snippet of the expanded online guide:<\/p>\n<p><strong>House Divided Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digital Classrooms: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ugrr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Underground Railroad<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emancipation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Exhibits: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/exhibits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Henry \u201cBox\u201d Brown<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-bye\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Anthony<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Field Trips: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ugrr\/field_trips.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google Earth files<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Videos: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p-2AMUGgtqc\" target=\"_blank\">Henry W. Spradley<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Interviews: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VOxGbpGxIkk\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Larson on Harriet Tubman<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wf-UtLcyhmY\" target=\"_blank\">Fergus Bordewich on myths<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lesson Plans: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ugrr\/lesson_plans.html\" target=\"_blank\">K-12 units<\/a>\u00a0featuring\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ugrr\/fugitive_notices.html\" target=\"_blank\">Runaway Ads<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Research Engine: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9587\" target=\"_blank\">Fugitive Slave Law<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9588\" target=\"_blank\">Underground Railroad<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>PRIMARY SOURCES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Federal Laws and Codes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/constitution\/#!\/articles\/4\/essays\/124\/fugitive-slave-clause\" target=\"_blank\">US Constitution: Fugitive Slave Clause<\/a> (1787) with <a href=\"http:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/convention\/debates\/0828-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">debate August 28, 1787<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ampage?collId=llac&amp;fileName=003\/llac003.db&amp;recNum=702\" target=\"_blank\">Fugitive Slave Act<\/a>\u00a0(1793)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/19th_century\/fugitive.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Fugitive Slave Act<\/a>\u00a0(1850)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedmen.umd.edu\/artwar.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Revised Articles of War<\/a> (March 13, 1862)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ampage?collId=llcg&amp;fileName=067\/llcg067.db&amp;recNum=264\" target=\"_blank\">Repeal of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act<\/a>\u00a0(June 1864) with <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ampage?collId=llcg&amp;fileName=065\/llcg065.db&amp;recNum=771\" target=\"_blank\">Senate debate<\/a>\u00a0(April)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see more, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/underground-railroad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Web Guides section<\/a> of the Civil War undergraduate online course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Carlisle, PA,\u00a0June 25, 2015) Today, the House Divided Project released an expanded online research guide for the Underground Railroad which includes links to dozens of&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2015\/06\/25\/exploring-the-underground-railroad\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}