{"id":184,"date":"2015-01-13T18:51:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2015-01-18T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T19:10:13","slug":"map-and-timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/map-and-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Map and Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=zh48R4RU93BI.khhAeLBmfj6k\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO USE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click on menu (upper left) for a chronological listing of place marks arranged in five layers (Origins, 1861, 1862, 1863, and &#8220;1864 and Beyond&#8221;) in order to find coverage of the period roughly from 1787-1877 with a concentration on the war itself. \u00a0There are two types of place marks: \u00a0blue-and-gold markers indicating political or social events, and red &#8220;explosion&#8221; symbols, indicating violent or military events. \u00a0Each placemark contains a gallery of images or embedded videos, with short snippets of text from Louis Masur&#8217;s <i>The Civil War: \u00a0A Concise History<\/i> (Oxford, 2011), followed by\u00a0links to the full text of related\u00a0primary sources. \u00a0In some cases, there are also links to relevant secondary or digital resources.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>ABOUT THE MAP<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This map, &#8220;Concise Civil War Era,&#8221; exists on Google Maps as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/atlas\/\" target=\"_blank\">growing arsenal of multi-media maps<\/a> from the House Divided Project at Dickinson College. \u00a0Most of these maps use short snippets or text excerpts from primary and secondary sources to help anchor custom-made place marks that typically also\u00a0include images, embedded videos and links to various types of supporting materials. In this case, the map owes its greatest debt to <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-civil-war-9780199740482?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Masur&#8217;s <i>The Civil War: \u00a0A Concise History\u00a0<\/i>(Oxford University Press, 2011)<\/a>, but here is a list of\u00a0some of the other excellent online resources (besides the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">research engine<\/a> at the House Divided Project) that have helped to provide materials for this compact visualization of the Civil War era:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antietam.aotw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antietam on the Web<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avalon Project at Yale Law School<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bartleby.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilwar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War Trust<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Encyclopedia of Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyewitnesstohistory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eyewitness To History<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Google Cultural Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HarpWeek \/ Impeachment of Andrew Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Congress \/ American Memory Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MrBettsClass\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Betts&#8217;s Class (YouTube.edu)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourdocuments.gov\/index.php?flash=true&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">National Archives \/ Our Documents<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Georgia Encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/opinion\/disunion.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times \/ Disunion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/aia\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">PBS \/ Africans in America<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching American History<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.territorialkansasonline.org\/~imlskto\/cgi-bin\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Territorial Kansas Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">University of California-Santa Barbara \/ American Presidency Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedmen.umd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Maryland \/ Freedmen &amp; Southern Society Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Carolina \/ Documenting the American South<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/utc.iath.virginia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Virginia \/ Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.army.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Army Center of Military History<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/about\/education\/Pages\/in-god-we-trust.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">US Treasury Department<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW TO USE Click on menu (upper left) for a chronological listing of place marks arranged in five layers (Origins, 1861, 1862, 1863, and &#8220;1864 and Beyond&#8221;) in order to find coverage of the period roughly from 1787-1877 with a concentration on the war itself. \u00a0There are two types of place marks: \u00a0blue-and-gold markers indicating [&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-184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}