{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-15T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2015-08-28T20:08:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T20:08:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History 404, &#8220;US Constitution&#8221; with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets at Dickinson College during fall semester 2015 on Tuesdays and Thursdays\u00a0at 130pm in Denny 211.\u00a0 Course texts include Richard Beeman&#8217;s\u00a0 <em>Plain, Honest Men <\/em>(2010)\u00a0and numerous journal articles and essays from leading scholars such as Akhil Reed Amar, Clayborne Carson, and Paul Finkelman.\u00a0 Students in the course will produce an online exhibition about the constitutional convention, an online research guide to a historic Supreme Court case, and a major research paper that\u00a0narrates an episode of major constitutional change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note on Banner Image: \u00a0<\/strong>This well known painting of the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787 was created\u00a0by Howard Chandler Christy (1940) and hangs in the U.S. Capitol. \u00a0To access a clickable version of the image courtesy of Teaching American History,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/convention\/christy\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History 404, &#8220;US Constitution&#8221; with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets at Dickinson College during fall semester 2015 on Tuesdays and Thursdays\u00a0at 130pm in Denny 211.\u00a0 Course texts include Richard Beeman&#8217;s\u00a0 Plain, Honest Men (2010)\u00a0and numerous journal articles and essays from leading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-404pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}