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Dr. Matthew Pinsker will share insights from the House Divided Project's current joint research initiative with the National Park Service on "slave stampedes" or mass escapes from slavery.  Pinsker will detail some of the now-forgotten stories behind wartime stampedes at places like Hampton, Virginia or Loutre Island, Missouri and their impact on Lincoln's emancipation policy.

Dr. Pinsker teaches courses in U.S. political, legal and diplomatic history. His research focuses on the career of Abraham Lincoln, partisanship in the Civil War era, American constitutionalism, the Underground Railroad and the history of U.S. campaigns and elections. He earned his BA from Harvard in 1990 and his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1995.  Dr. Pinsker holds the Pohanka Chair for Civil War History and serves as the Director of the House Divided Project at Dickinson College.