{"id":2,"date":"2011-01-11T13:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-177pinsker\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:01:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">America @ 250 Anniversary Edition<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>History 117, \u201cUS History To 1877,\u201d with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets at Dickinson College during spring semester 2026 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9AM in Denny 211.\u00a0 Course texts include Gordon Wood, <em>The American Revolution <\/em>(2002)\u00a0and Louis Masur, <em>The Civil War\u00a0<\/em>(2011), plus an innovative online textbook called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/\"><em>American Yawp<\/em><\/a>, as well as other articles and online resources.\u00a0 \u00a0As part of their course work, students will write two essays (on the revolutionary and Civil War eras) and will create one multi-media close reading project on a key document from early American history.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Banner image credit:\u00a0 &#8220;<i>The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776<\/i>,&#8221; by\u00a0 John Trumbull (<a href=\"https:\/\/artgallery.yale.edu\/collections\/objects\/69\">Yale University<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3352\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-8.21.03-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3352\" class=\"wp-image-3352 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-8.21.03-AM-1024x527.png\" alt=\"Denny\" width=\"940\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-8.21.03-AM-1024x527.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-8.21.03-AM-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-8.21.03-AM-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-8.21.03-AM-500x257.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-8.21.03-AM.png 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denny Hall<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America @ 250 Anniversary Edition History 117, \u201cUS History To 1877,\u201d with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets at Dickinson College during spring semester 2026 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9AM in Denny 211.\u00a0 Course texts include Gordon Wood, The American Revolution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5156,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}