{"id":130,"date":"2011-07-09T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/?p=130"},"modified":"2011-07-09T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T16:48:29","slug":"early-civics-schoolbook-features-abolitionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/2011\/07\/09\/early-civics-schoolbook-features-abolitionists\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Civics Schoolbook Features Abolitionists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_131\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojaivalleymuseum.org\/history\/oil_tourism\/1881_nordhoff.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131\" title=\"nordhoff\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/files\/2011\/07\/nordhoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Nordhoff<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Charles Nordhoff (18301901) produced a nineteenth-century civics textbook entitled, <em>Politics for Young Americans <\/em>(Harper &amp; Brothers, 1875) that included a revealing description of abolitionists in a section about the proper roles of minorities and majorities in American political culture (&#8220;Of the Importance and Duty of the Minority&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>You can view the section on abolitionists on <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.pitt.edu\/cgi-bin\/t\/text\/pageviewer-idx?c=nietz;cc=nietz;idno=00a269068m;type=simple;q1=emancipation;submit=Search;didno=00a269068m;rgn=full%20text;view=image;seq=0140\" target=\"_blank\">p. 136<\/a> of the textbook or read the full volume online through the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.pitt.edu\/n\/nietz\/\" target=\"_blank\">19th Century Schoolbooks Collection<\/a> from the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Nordhoff (18301901) produced a nineteenth-century civics textbook entitled, Politics for Young Americans (Harper &amp; Brothers, 1875) that included a revealing description of abolitionists in a section about the proper roles of minorities and majorities in American political culture (&#8220;Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/2011\/07\/09\/early-civics-schoolbook-features-abolitionists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-textbooks","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}