{"id":966,"date":"2010-02-08T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:25:03","slug":"harpweek-political-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/02\/08\/harpweek-political-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"HarpWeek Political Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-967\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/02\/TheUnionMust18605w-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"TheUnionMust18605w\" width=\"272\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/02\/TheUnionMust18605w-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/02\/TheUnionMust18605w.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HarpWeek <\/a>has an online <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.harpweek.com\/default.asp\" target=\"_self\">collection of political cartoons<\/a> from 14 presidential elections between the years 1860-1912.\u00a0 These cartoons provide a visual insight into the climate surrounding the Election of 1860, and its core issues.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.harpweek.com\/1860\/cartoon-1860-Medium.asp?UniqueID=39&amp;Year=1860\" target=\"_blank\">Some of the cartoons<\/a> require a lot of prior historical knowledge, while <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.harpweek.com\/1860\/cartoon-1860-Medium.asp?UniqueID=36&amp;Year=1860\" target=\"_blank\">others <\/a>can be understood with some basic analysis.\u00a0 HarpWeek has convienently provided an analysis and explanation of each cartoon.\u00a0 There are other resources as well for the Election of 1860, including an <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.harpweek.com\/1860\/Overview-1860-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">overview <\/a>of the historical context and a timeline of important <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.harpweek.com\/1860\/Events-1860.htm\" target=\"_blank\">events<\/a>.\u00a0 Any of these political cartoons would be beneficial to a classroom discussion of this crucial election.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/712educators.about.com\/cs\/edcartoons\/a\/edcartoons.htm\" target=\"_blank\">This webpage<\/a> provides a useful guide to using editorial cartoons in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HarpWeek has an online collection of political cartoons from 14 presidential elections between the years 1860-1912.\u00a0 These cartoons provide a visual insight into the climate surrounding the Election of 1860, and its core issues.\u00a0 Some of the cartoons require a lot of prior historical knowledge, while others can be understood with some basic analysis.\u00a0 HarpWeek [&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":[77,156,82],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-images","category-lesson-plans","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}