{"id":525,"date":"2015-09-08T03:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/?p=525"},"modified":"2015-09-08T03:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T03:15:41","slug":"reference-founders-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/reference-founders-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"REFERENCE &#8211;Founders Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dickinson College students study the Founders with great care, because the college itself was part of the American Revolutionary era, established as a school in 1773 and first chartered as a college in 1783. \u00a0The guiding spirit of the institution was Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration. \u00a0And, of course, John Dickinson, the college&#8217;s namesake, was a (somewhat reluctant) signer of the Declaration and an important framer of the US Constitution. \u00a0 Students in History 117 (US To 1877) have been busy crafting profiles on a wide range of broadly defined &#8220;Founders.&#8221; \u00a0 Here is a growing list of some of the best of the short profiles which they have created :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2014\/11\/07\/abigail-adamsthe-woman-of-equality\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abigail Adams<\/a> (By Carolyn Goode)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2014\/11\/07\/elizabeth-willing-powel-the-real-first-lady\/\">Elizabeth Powel<\/a> (By Jake Phillips)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2014\/11\/08\/george-read-an-influential-but-forgotten-founder\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Read<\/a> (By Jenna Hess)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2014\/11\/05\/roger-sherman-the-father-of-american-federalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Sherman<\/a> (By Jordan Forry)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickinson College students study the Founders with great care, because the college itself was part of the American Revolutionary era, established as a school in 1773 and first chartered as a college in 1783. \u00a0The guiding spirit of the institution&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/reference-founders-profiles\/\">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":[77949,54158,77954,1010],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial-era","category-constitution","category-revolutionary-war","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","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=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}