{"id":376,"date":"2009-07-07T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2010-06-16T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T13:28:16","slug":"civil-war-smithsonian-goes-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/07\/07\/civil-war-smithsonian-goes-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War @ Smithsonian Goes Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian recently brought their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilwar.si.edu\/collections.html\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a> collection to the internet.\u00a0 The site<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civilwar.si.edu\/leaders_images\/l_davis_unidentified.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"302\" \/> allows users to view the different exhibits from the comfort of their own homes.\u00a0 Each exhibit displays an image as well as a relevant description of the artifact.\u00a0 The exhibits deal with issues such as slavery and abolition, soldiering, and leaders.\u00a0 Additionally, the Smithsonian created a timeline section that follows the course of historical events beginning with John Brown&#8217;s raid in 1859 and ending with the convictions of the Lincoln assassination conspirators in 1865.\u00a0 Also, the site lists a set of resources for each exhibit which includes general reference material, websites, and printed materials.\u00a0 As expected (from the Smithsonian) this website smashes a home run when it comes to making history engaging and accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian recently brought their Civil War collection to the internet.\u00a0 The site allows users to view the different exhibits from the comfort of their own homes.\u00a0 Each exhibit displays an image as well as a relevant description of the artifact.\u00a0 The exhibits deal with issues such as slavery and abolition, soldiering, and leaders.\u00a0 Additionally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156],"tags":[161,157],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","tag-battles-soldiers","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}