{"id":27,"date":"2015-08-27T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T12:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2015-09-07T14:48:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T14:48:50","slug":"preface","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Preface"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>survey<\/strong>\u00a0\\\u00a0<em>ser-vay \\<\/em>\u00a0<em>n<\/em>\u00a0<strong>[1]<\/strong> a general view or appraisal\u00a0of something <strong>[2]<\/strong> \u00a0a comprehensive record of the landscape\u00a0and its features<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Dickinson Survey of American History aims to provide a 21st-century platform for exploring\u00a0the social and political landscape of the national\u00a0past. Please understand, however, this is a digital\u00a0platform, not a linear textbook. It\u00a0is an evolving, multi-dimensional, student and faculty driven project that hopes to inspire and inform deeper classroom engagement with some of the main struggles that have defined America. \u00a0Getting started is simple. \u00a0You can find surveying tools listed across the top menu, or explore specific pathways from the right-hand column.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5\" style=\"width: 964px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/29998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5\" class=\"wp-image-5 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/cropped-HD_NorthAmerica1857.preview.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-HD_NorthAmerica1857.preview.jpg\" width=\"954\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/cropped-HD_NorthAmerica1857.preview.jpg 954w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/cropped-HD_NorthAmerica1857.preview-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/08\/cropped-HD_NorthAmerica1857.preview-751x1024.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1857 Map of North America from Mitchell&#8217;s New Universal Atlas \/\/ Courtesy of House Divided Project at Dickinson College \/\/ Click on image to Zoomify<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>survey\u00a0\\\u00a0ser-vay \\\u00a0n\u00a0[1] a general view or appraisal\u00a0of something [2] \u00a0a comprehensive record of the landscape\u00a0and its features The Dickinson Survey of American History aims to provide a 21st-century platform for exploring\u00a0the social and political landscape of the national\u00a0past. Please understand,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/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-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}