{"id":567,"date":"2012-08-05T21:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T21:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-gilder\/?p=567"},"modified":"2012-08-05T21:26:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T21:26:05","slug":"house-divided-fergus-bordewich-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/2012\/08\/05\/house-divided-fergus-bordewich-video\/","title":{"rendered":"House Divided Fergus Bordewich Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time exploring and becoming familiar with the House Divided research engine this afternoon.\u00a0 There seem to be a lot of very interesting facets to this project which could be utilized in the classroom.\u00a0 While exploring I spent some time with the House Divided Video Channel and viewed the interview with Fergus Bordewich about the Underground Railroad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I found Bordewich\u2019s discussion about the religious motivation behind the Underground Railroad particularly interesting.\u00a0 He commented that he was surprised by the significance that the religious revivalism of the time played in the establishment of the Underground Railroad.\u00a0 Because I am interested in the religious aspects of the abolitionist and anti-slavery movements this caught my attention.\u00a0 I am intrigued by and would like to know more about this aspect of the coming of the war, the war itself and Reconstruction.\u00a0 Any suggestions as to books, websites or other materials on this would be appreciated<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His telling of the story of Jermain Loguen was also notable.\u00a0 This portion of the clip would be a great attention getter to show at the beginning of a lesson on the Underground Railroad.\u00a0 It could also serve as a springboard into some form of discussion activity which could lead into a brief writing assignment or blogging activity.\u00a0 Good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time exploring and becoming familiar with the House Divided research engine this afternoon.\u00a0 There seem to be a lot of very interesting facets to this project which could be utilized in the classroom.\u00a0 While exploring I spent some time with the House Divided Video Channel and viewed the interview with Fergus Bordewich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11236,82,6109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-lesson-plans","category-secondary-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}