{"id":225,"date":"2008-10-24T12:18:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2010-06-15T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T20:24:55","slug":"new-exhibit-at-ny-historical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/10\/24\/new-exhibit-at-ny-historical-society\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibit at NY Historical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was reading over the House Divided blog, and I came across the Civil War tag. This tag provoked me to search the New York Times website for any interesting articles pertaining to the subject. I landed on a recent article from October 17th entitled, &#8220;Two Generals, Still Manuevering&#8221;. The article focused on the two prominent generals of the Civil War: Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/images.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/resources\/museum460june2.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cLet Us Have Peace, 1865\u201d -Leon Gerome Ferris \" width=\"460\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The exhibit entitled, \u201cGrant and Lee in War and Peace,\u201d has raised skepticism about how Grant and Lee will be depicted in comparison to each other. In this famous picture on the right by\u00a0Leon Gerome Ferris, General Lee is surrendering to Grant, but this is not evident from just looking at the picture. It will be interesting to see if the new exhibit present&#8217;s Lee in the same way- it seems to be a common theme for this scene&#8217;s illustration these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The scale had so far tilted that by 1920 or so, when John Leon Gerome Ferris painted his famous depiction of the surrender at Appomattox, \u201cLet Us Have Peace, 1865\u201d \u2014 which is in the show \u2014 he put Lee, regal and imposing, bathed in light, in the center of the picture, while a shadowy, supplicant Grant, in muddy boots, approaches from the left. If you didn\u2019t know better, you would think Lee had won.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,47,81],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-places-to-visit","category-recent-news","tag-education-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}