{"id":1508,"date":"2016-02-16T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2016-02-16T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:58:27","slug":"northern-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/2016\/02\/16\/northern-reconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southerners were not the only Americans whose lives were transformed during the decades immediately following the Civil War. \u00a0Northerners did not face the same challenges of political reconstruction or economic transition in the aftermath of slavery, but they did face a series of revolutionary experiences. \u00a0Students in History 118 should be able to identify the main social, political and economic forces that ripped apart the North during the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/timeline\/1870s-reconstruction\/\">1870s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/timeline\/1880s-closing-frontier\/\">1880s<\/a>, but they should also be able to explain the story of westward expansion in great depth. \u00a0That was a story of unexpected complexity, one that can be at least partially summarized through a close reading of this famous painting by John Gast, entitled, &#8220;American Progress,&#8221; (1872).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu\/item.php?item_id=180\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1509\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1509\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/02\/Gast.jpg\" alt=\"Gast\" width=\"504\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/02\/Gast.jpg 504w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/02\/Gast-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2016\/02\/Gast-402x300.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southerners were not the only Americans whose lives were transformed during the decades immediately following the Civil War. \u00a0Northerners did not face the same challenges of political reconstruction or economic transition in the aftermath of slavery, but they did face a series of revolutionary experiences. \u00a0Students in History 118 should be able to identify the [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}