Live! at the Drake Library: "Abraham Lincoln: Private Man, Public Leader," Matthew Pinsker
Channel: Cowles Library
Date: 2012-08-01

July 22, 2009
Matthew Pinsker, the Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War History at Dickinson College, has published two books and numerous articles on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era, including "Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home" (2003).  He has served as a visiting fellow at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and leads annual K-12 teacher workshops on the Underground Railroad for the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Pinkster graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford.