{"id":638,"date":"2009-10-25T14:32:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:05:22","slug":"grant-burr-family-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/10\/25\/grant-burr-family-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant-Burr Family Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanantiquarian.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Antiquarian Society<\/a>, an independent research library, has provided a digital collection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanantiquarian.org\/GrantBurr\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Grant-Burr family papers<\/a> on their website.\u00a0 The letters in this collection were written between the years 1827-1892, and a majority of the correspondence is between Daniel Grant and his wife Caroline Burr Grant.\u00a0 There are over 500 letters, covering a great range of 19th century topics from courtship and childrearing to westward expansion and the Civil War.\u00a0 The collection can be searched by keyword or, perhaps more usefully, can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanantiquarian.org\/GrantBurr\/subject.htm\" target=\"_blank\">browsed according to subject<\/a>.\u00a0 Additionally, the website offers genealogical information and images of the family.\u00a0 All of the transcribed letters are available as a scanned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanantiquarian.org\/GrantBurr\/pdf.htm\" target=\"_blank\">pdf file<\/a> which is useful for those seeking to use these letters in the classroom.\u00a0 For more information on how to use primary sources in the classroom, teachers may want to refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/teachers\/usingprimarysources\/\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> from the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Antiquarian Society, an independent research library, has provided a digital collection of the Grant-Burr family papers on their website.\u00a0 The letters in this collection were written between the years 1827-1892, and a majority of the correspondence is between Daniel Grant and his wife Caroline Burr Grant.\u00a0 There are over 500 letters, covering a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,172],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-letters-diaries","tag-women-families"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}