{"id":33,"date":"2008-04-16T12:16:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:15:11","slug":"teaching-the-lincoln-douglas-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/04\/16\/teaching-the-lincoln-douglas-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching the Lincoln Douglas Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/06\/hd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-102\" title=\"hd\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/06\/hd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>AP US teachers should find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalofamericanhistory.org\/teaching\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching the Journal of American History <\/a>site a great resource for their classes. Allen C. Guelzo\u2019s article on the Lincoln Douglas Debate, which was published in the September 2007 issue, is available (no subscription required) along with the author\u2019s suggestions for teaching it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalofamericanhistory.org\/teaching\/2007_09\/teaching.html\" target=\"_blank\">Five activities<\/a> are available that ask students to answer questions based on information from the article as well as their interpretation of primary sources. Each activity has links to these sources for students to use.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you do not have students read the Guelzo\u2019s article, you should still check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalofamericanhistory.org\/teaching\/2007_09\/sources.html\" target=\"_blank\">other resources <\/a>that are available, such as the five maps that track where in Illinois Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas went between August and October 1858. This article is the only one from the House Divided era, but others are available on topics such as the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalofamericanhistory.org\/teaching\/2001_03\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Scopes Trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP US teachers should find the Teaching the Journal of American History site a great resource for their classes. Allen C. Guelzo\u2019s article on the Lincoln Douglas Debate, which was published in the September 2007 issue, is available (no subscription required) along with the author\u2019s suggestions for teaching it. Five activities are available that ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,82],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-lesson-plans","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}