{"id":282,"date":"2012-08-01T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-gilder\/?p=282"},"modified":"2012-08-01T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:57:17","slug":"local-history-as-our-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/2012\/08\/01\/local-history-as-our-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Local History as our Laboratory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1376-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maple Grove Civil War Memorial\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1371-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">The discussion in class were great and I really like that <del>Dr. Pinsker<\/del> Matt spent time in a conversation with us about the blog entries. BTW Matt, thank you for your explanation of immediate abolition, gradual abolition and political abolition. That will give a great handle for me to use with my young charges. I&#8217;ve been playing with setting up an Abolition Convention and your distinctions will be useful.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">The thing I became most curious about today was the presentation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primaryresearch.org\/pr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Primary Research<\/a>. As they started talking about using gravestones to plot philosophical change, I went back to an experience I had earlier this summer. I talked a bit about it in a blog I keep for my students, <a href=\"http:\/\/declarationaddressanddream.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/when-teacher-gets-taught-memorial-day.html\">Declaration Address and Dream<\/a>. My students will tell you I have an affection for cemeteries. I can say, with pride, that I have now openly wept in the first three national cemeteries after visiting Old Soldier&#8217;s Home and Lincoln&#8217;s Cottage a few weeks ago.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">One of my visions for the new school year is giving my students the chance to be historians &#8211; not just academics and conjecture historians, but dirt under the fingernails historians. <a href=\"http:\/\/maplegrovecemetery.org\/sagacity.html\">Maple Grove Cemetery<\/a> in Wichita is one of several in the city and has a Civil War Memorial which it is renovating. I have been ruminating on how to do that using Maple Grove and Primary Research gives me a template by which to begin with.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1368.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-290\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1368-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285   \" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/responsive\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1352-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1352-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1352-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/08\/IMG_1352.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Completely unrelated, but in the spirit of the Olympics, here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/declarationaddressanddream.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/olympian-lost-to-weeds-and-weather.html\">blog post<\/a> about an Olympian buried at Maple Grove. I also find his sister fascinating as well. Imagine being a African American nurse during the Jim Crow era.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The discussion in class were great and I really like that Dr. Pinsker Matt spent time in a conversation with us about the blog entries. BTW Matt, thank you for your explanation of immediate abolition, gradual abolition and political abolition. That will give a great handle for me to use with my young charges. 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