{"id":2188,"date":"2016-08-30T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2016-08-30T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:03:17","slug":"decoding-the-course-banner-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2016\/08\/30\/decoding-the-course-banner-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding the Course Banner Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

Print-makers and illustrators in the nineteenth-century could be quite\u00a0creative and calculating. In fact,\u00a0the banner image from this course website provides a good example of what might be called pre-photoshop photoshopping undertaken by a commercial printer in Philadelphia following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. Here is what the image looked like that year:<\/p>\n

\"Emancipation<\/a><\/p>\n

Yet here is what the original illustration looked like in January 1863 when Thomas Nast first drew it for\u00a0Harpers Weekly:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Emancipation<\/a>The difference is more than just color. \u00a0Nast’s allegory for emancipation has now been subtly altered to give the martyred president a greater role.<\/p>\n

\"cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-emancipation.jpg\"<\/a>\"Emancipation<\/a>This discrepancy appears to have slipped past most scholars, or at least they have not commented on it in print. \u00a0Yet at a teacher’s workshop in 2013, an educator from Utah discovered the contrast<\/a> while working on a project about Lincoln’s emancipation policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Print-makers and illustrators in the nineteenth-century could be quite\u00a0creative and calculating. In fact,\u00a0the banner image from this course website provides a good example of what might be called pre-photoshop photoshopping undertaken by a commercial printer in Philadelphia following Abraham Lincoln’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}