{"id":3245,"date":"2016-12-17T17:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:50:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:50:48","slug":"effect-of-political-environment-on-dickinson-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/2016\/12\/17\/effect-of-political-environment-on-dickinson-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Effect of Political Environment on Dickinson Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The eighteen forties were a tumultuous time for the United States. Different events affected the Union. These events ranged from James Polk\u2019s inauguration, to the Mormons\u2019 conflict in\u00a0Illinois, to Texas\u2019 admittance into the Union, to the Mexican-American War, to slave riots. Did these issues have any affect on college students from that era, specifically students at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania? To answer that question, this post examines the Mexican-American War through a wide\u00a0lens, while analyzing slave riots through the zoomed in lens of an 1847 slave riot in Carlisle.<br \/>\nThis post contains various interactive links to examine the affects of those events. Special features of this post include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/2016\/12\/17\/zooming\/\">Discussion <\/a>of perspective with relevance to how and why historians \u201czoom&#8221; and the possibility of student ignorance to national events<\/li>\n<li>Comparative <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/2016\/12\/17\/parker-timelines\/\">timeline<\/a> with national events side by side with Dickinson\u00a0events<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/2016\/12\/17\/gallery-of-photos\/\">Photo gallery <\/a>of various primary sources used in this project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eighteen forties were a tumultuous time for the United States. Different events affected the Union. These events ranged from James Polk\u2019s inauguration, to the Mormons\u2019 conflict in\u00a0Illinois, to Texas\u2019 admittance into the Union, to the Mexican-American War, to slave riots. Did these issues have any affect on college students from that era, specifically students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-204pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}