{"id":624,"date":"2015-09-27T19:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/?p=624"},"modified":"2024-11-23T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T13:59:23","slug":"essay-lincoln-theme-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-lincoln-theme-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSAY &#8211;Lincoln Theme 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Digital-Lincoln.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-625 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Digital-Lincoln-240x300.png\" alt=\"Digital Lincoln\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Digital-Lincoln-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Digital-Lincoln-560x699.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Digital-Lincoln-260x325.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Digital-Lincoln-160x200.png 160w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/files\/2015\/09\/Digital-Lincoln.png 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>In 2009, Matthew Pinsker published a state-of-the-field essay on Lincoln studies for the\u00a0<em>Journal of American History\u00a0<\/em>(&#8220;Lincoln Theme 2.0&#8221;), which argued that the digital revolution was fundamentally changing the way scholars research and write about Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s life and career. \u00a0The JAH sponsored a roundtable for leading historians\u00a0to comment on this claim, and hosted a website called &#8220;Building the Digital Lincoln,&#8221; created by staff and students from the House Divided Project at Dickinson College, which was designed to showcase some of the possibilities of the digital age Lincoln.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.oah.org\/special-issues\/lincoln\/contents\/pinsker.html\">Lincoln Theme 2.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.oah.org\/special-issues\/lincoln\/contents\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JAH Roundtable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.oah.org\/special-issues\/lincoln\/media\/pinsker\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Lincoln<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, Matthew Pinsker published a state-of-the-field essay on Lincoln studies for the\u00a0Journal of American History\u00a0(&#8220;Lincoln Theme 2.0&#8221;), which argued that the digital revolution was fundamentally changing the way scholars research and write about Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s life and career. \u00a0The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/essay-lincoln-theme-2-0\/\">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":[119143,23792,119170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-era","category-civil-war","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}