{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-15T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:06:02","slug":"abstrac","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History 118, &#8220;US History Since 1877&#8221; with Professor Matthew Pinsker meets at Dickinson College during fall semester 2026 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9am in Denny 317.\u00a0 Course texts include Manisha Sinha&#8217;s <em>Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic <\/em>and H.W. Brands&#8217; <em>American Dreams<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>as well as a variety of other essays and digital resources, including several created by Dickinson staff and students. \u00a0Participants in this course will write various essays and will undertake a multi-media oral history project that attempts to illuminate a major episode or trend in U.S. history since 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Banner image:\u00a0 &#8220;Migrant Mother&#8221; photograph by Dorothea Lange (1936) depicts <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/great-depression\/\">Florence Thompson (1903-1983)<\/a> though most textbooks, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/textbook\/21-the-great-depression\/\">American Yawp<\/a>, don&#8217;t identify her by name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History 118, &#8220;US History Since 1877&#8221; with Professor Matthew Pinsker meets at Dickinson College during fall semester 2026 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9am in Denny 317.\u00a0 Course texts include Manisha Sinha&#8217;s Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic and H.W. Brands&#8217; American Dreams\u00a0as well as a variety of other essays and digital resources, [&hellip;]<\/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-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8285,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/8285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}