{"id":165,"date":"2026-10-01T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:24:41","slug":"crossing-the-delaware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/course-syllabus\/crossing-the-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/collection\/the-collection-online\/search\/11417\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-204 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/Emanuel-Leutzes-painting.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Crossing (1851)\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smarthistory.org\/leutze-washington-crossing-the-delaware\/\">Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This most&nbsp;famous American painting was created by a German painter named Emanuel Leutze, originally in 1849 and then again in 1851. &nbsp;The story behind his motivation for painting this image provides a helpful&nbsp;connection between American and European revolutionary movements. &nbsp;Teachers and students can use this image to study both the Revolutionary War and the history of nineteenth-century nationalist conflicts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/collection\/the-collection-online\/search\/11417\">1851 version of the painting<\/a>&nbsp;(The Metropolitan Museum of Art)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250131231433\/https:\/\/edsitement.neh.gov\/closer-readings\/emanuel-leutzes-symbolic-scene-washington-crossing-delaware\">Leutze\u2019s Symbolic Scene<\/a>&nbsp;(NEH)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) This most&nbsp;famous American painting was created by a German painter named Emanuel Leutze, originally in 1849 and then again in 1851. &nbsp;The story behind his motivation for painting this image provides a helpful&nbsp;connection between American and European revolutionary movements. &nbsp;Teachers and students can use this image to study both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions\/170"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-1776\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}