{"id":222,"date":"2008-10-19T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T19:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2010-06-15T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T20:23:46","slug":"lincoln-and-civil-liberties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/10\/19\/lincoln-and-civil-liberties\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln and Civil Liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at a teacher training workshop at the Lincoln Cottage in Washington, I discussed Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s use of war powers and his approach to civil liberties with a group of K-12 colleagues from the DC<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lincolncottage.org\/images\/Cottage_BSC.jpg\" alt=\"Lincoln Cottage\" width=\"293\" height=\"243\" \/> and northern Virginia area.  We had an excellent  exchange  at a forum hosted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and funded by the NEH.  They still have spaces available for qualified teachers who would like to participate.  The program offers a  monthly series of workshops on topics related to teaching Lincoln and his legacy.  Teachers who prepare related lesson plans receive stipends. For more information, contact Scott Ackerman at<span class=\"SubjectSenderLabel\"><a class=\"Command FireAnt_Command Web_Bindings_Base\" href=\"http:\/\/by133w.bay133.mail.live.com\/mail\/ApplicationMain_13.1.0132.0805.aspx?culture=en-US&amp;hash=4026791804#\"> Scott_Ackerman@nthp.org<\/a><\/span>.  Also, if you&#8217;re interested in the question of Lincoln&#8217;s approach to civil liberties, we have posted <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/video\/cl.html\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely in the House Divided video channel that offers a thoughtful assessment of Lincoln&#8217;s civil liberties record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at a teacher training workshop at the Lincoln Cottage in Washington, I discussed Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s use of war powers and his approach to civil liberties with a group of K-12 colleagues from the DC and northern Virginia area. We had an excellent exchange at a forum hosted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82,20],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-lesson-plans","category-video","tag-lawmaking-litigating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}