{"id":499,"date":"2015-09-07T23:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T23:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/?p=499"},"modified":"2015-09-07T23:47:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T23:47:06","slug":"exhibit-lincoln-douglas-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/exhibit-lincoln-douglas-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"EXHIBIT &#8211;Lincoln Douglas Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/debates\/word_cloud.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-500\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Word-Cloud.png\" alt=\"Word Cloud\" width=\"1664\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Word-Cloud.png 1664w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Word-Cloud-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Word-Cloud-1024x459.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Word-Cloud-560x251.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Word-Cloud-260x117.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Word-Cloud-160x72.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1664px) 100vw, 1664px\" \/><\/a>The House Divided Project at Dickinson College has created an innovative digital classroom on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. \u00a0The contest between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was really the first public US senatorial campaign in American history and one of the great turning points of antebellum American politics. \u00a0Visitors to this site can see a litany of primary source documents for all seven debates and the full campaign as well as a host of unique multi-media resources, such as a clickable word cloud (above) and a GIS-enabled map of the election results.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/debates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln-Douglas Debates Digital Classroom<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/debates\/word_cloud.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Divided Project at Dickinson College has created an innovative digital classroom on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858. \u00a0The contest between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was really the first public US senatorial campaign in American history and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/exhibit-lincoln-douglas-debates\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119143,119161,854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-era","category-campaigns-elections","category-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}