{"id":412,"date":"2025-08-26T23:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/?page_id=412"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:11:15","slug":"secession","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/course-syllabus\/secession\/","title":{"rendered":"Secession"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-413\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-26-at-7.48.39\u202fPM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-413 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-26-at-7.48.39\u202fPM-1024x697.png\" alt=\"Bedell and RTL\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-26-at-7.48.39\u202fPM-1024x697.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-26-at-7.48.39\u202fPM-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-26-at-7.48.39\u202fPM-768x523.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-26-at-7.48.39\u202fPM-1536x1046.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-26-at-7.48.39\u202fPM.png 1894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Bedell (upper left) and Robert Lincoln (upper right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/US-in-1861.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-414\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/files\/2025\/08\/US-in-1861.gif\" alt=\"US 1861\" width=\"774\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>TEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/texts\/abraham-lincoln-first-inaugural-1861\/\">Lincoln, First Inaugural (1861)<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln wrote most of his 1861 inaugural address though he had key editorial assistance from Secretary of State William Seward, especially with the poetic closing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CONTEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/14-the-civil-war\/#II_The_Election_of_1860_and_Secession\">Secession Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Lincoln delivered the address on March 4, 1861 after seven (0ut of fifteen) slave states had seceded (or left) from the union<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln was the nation&#8217;s first Republican president; he was a 52-year-old attorney from Springfield, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>As a young boy in Indiana, Lincoln attended informal frontier or &#8220;blab&#8221; schools for only about a year in total.\u00a0 He learned to read and write mostly on his own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>SUBTEXT:\u00a0 Lincoln&#8217;s Union<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For detailed analysis of Lincoln&#8217;s subtext and understandig how he defined &#8220;union&#8221; see:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2025\/07\/Lincolns-First-Inaugural.pdf\">Lincoln&#8217;s Secession Crisis and Ours<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>METHODS CENTER:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/artificial-intelligence-or-fake-intelligence\/\">AI Tools and Traps<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the difference between artificial intelligence and fake intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Remember a headline mantra they liked to use during the Civil War:\u00a0 &#8220;Important, if True&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXT:\u00a0 Lincoln, First Inaugural (1861) Lincoln wrote most of his 1861 inaugural address though he had key editorial assistance from Secretary of State William Seward, especially with the poetic closing CONTEXT:\u00a0 Secession Crisis Lincoln delivered the address on March 4, 1861 after seven (0ut of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-412","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions\/998"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}