A. S. Dillingham 

Profile of Teaching

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During his graduate work at the University of Maryland, Dillingham was placed on a terrorism watch list by the Maryland State Police Homeland Security and Intelligence Division for his involvement in anti-death penalty advocacy (he and 52 other individuals were subsequently removed from the list after an investigation by the Maryland State Senate and the American Civil Liberties Union). Below is an article on how Professor Ira Berlin and Dillingham used the experience to underscore ongoing debates regarding the meaning of the constitution and civil liberties in a course on antebellum U.S. history.

 

"All Eyes on Him" The Diamondback

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Student-Led Public History Projects

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While teaching at Spring Hill College, students researched the fights over desegregation and Civil Rights on campus in the 1950s and 1960s. One group of students produced an illustrated story book, available here, while another group produced a video documentary on the subject, available here. 

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While at Reed College, Dillingham asked students to research the local experience of the Global Sixties by researching youth culture and politics on campus and the surrounding community. Using the College’s archives and special collections, the students investigated New Left and counterculture activities at Reed and curated an exhibit for the Hauser Library entitled “Reed in the Global Sixties.”    

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At Dickinson College, Dillingham offered a course on Native history in which students used recently digitized files from the nearby Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1910) to explore the history of American Indian boarding schools. After visiting the Cumberland County Historical Society, which houses much of the schools’ physical archival material, students researched and developed profiles of individual children who passed through the school. The class was interviewed on how they used the digital material in class projects: "Reclaiming History" Dickinson Magazine ​