{"id":1742,"date":"2016-03-06T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2016-03-06T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T18:43:25","slug":"lincoln-as-commander-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/2016\/03\/06\/lincoln-as-commander-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln as Commander in Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Lincoln was not trained as a military man. \u00a0He once joked that as a young Illinois militia officer during the Black Hawk War, the only &#8220;live, fighting&#8221; enemies that he had attacked were\u00a0mosquitoes. \u00a0Yet, he was a remarkably self-confident commander-in-chief. \u00a0Students in History 288 should be able to identify reasons for Lincoln&#8217;s self-assurance after reading articles about his wartime leadership from James McPherson and Brooks Simpson. \u00a0As a test case involving their theories and other ideas about Lincoln&#8217;s wartime success, we will also conduct a close reading of <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/letter-to-joseph-hooker-january-26-1863\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln&#8217;s famous letter to Union General Joseph Hooker in January 1863<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/69627820\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Lincoln was not trained as a military man. \u00a0He once joked that as a young Illinois militia officer during the Black Hawk War, the only &#8220;live, fighting&#8221; enemies that he had attacked were\u00a0mosquitoes. \u00a0Yet, he was a remarkably self-confident commander-in-chief. \u00a0Students in History 288 should be able to identify reasons for Lincoln&#8217;s self-assurance after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}