{"id":8,"date":"2012-01-25T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:15:37","slug":"course-abstract","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History 204, \u201cIntroduction to Historical Methods,\u201d with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets at Dickinson College during spring 2025 on Mondays and Thursdays at 130pm in Stern 12.\u00a0 Course texts include Zachary M. Schrag, <em>The Princeton Guide to Historical Research\u00a0(<\/em>2021) and and various articles and digital resources such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/slavery\/\">Dickinson &amp; Slavery<\/a> exhibit.\u00a0 Students in this methods seminar will undertake a number of research, writing and multi-media presentation assignments in order to begin to master the range of skills essential to becoming a historian.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Banner image (above):\u00a0<\/strong> <em>Family and friends of Dickinson College president Herman Johnson gathered in front of East College sometime in the 1860s.\u00a0 This is one of the oldest known photographs taken on the campus, probably around 1861.\u00a0 The image has been colorized in 2023 using artificial intelligence (AI) software with some manual refinements.\u00a0 To find out more about the family, especially Mary Johnson Dillon (the young girl seated in white dress and hat, center), who later wrote a famous novel about the college&#8217;s experiences during the Civil War (<strong>In Old Bellaire<\/strong>),\u00a0see the website project <a href=\"http:\/\/marydillonscarlisle.weebly.com\/photographic-research.html\">Mary Dillon&#8217;s Carlisle<\/a> from Rachel Morgan, &#8217;18.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History 204, \u201cIntroduction to Historical Methods,\u201d with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets at Dickinson College during spring 2025 on Mondays and Thursdays at 130pm in Stern 12.\u00a0 Course texts include Zachary M. Schrag, The Princeton Guide to Historical Research\u00a0(2021) and and various articles and digital resources such as the Dickinson &amp; Slavery exhibit.\u00a0 Students in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}