{"id":669,"date":"2021-07-13T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T15:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/?page_id=669"},"modified":"2021-07-15T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:14:33","slug":"field-trip-to-harrisburg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/field-trip-to-harrisburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip to Harrisburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Director Todd Mealy will lead a special tour of African American and Civil War historical sites in Harrisburg.\u00a0 Students will visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org\/\">National\u00a0 Civil War Museum<\/a> and the recently installed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/news\/2020\/11\/old-8th-ward-monument-completed-commemorating-historic-harrisburg-neighborhood.html\">Crossroads monument<\/a> honoring African American leaders and the Old Eighth Ward.\u00a0 Later in the evening, students will also enjoy an outing at a Harrisburg Senators minor league baseball game.\u00a0 By Thursday night, students will produce their first writing assignment for the course &#8211;a blog post about the Harrisburg field trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?422302-1\/legendary-locals-harrisburg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-209\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-29-at-4.30.14-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-29-at-4.30.14-PM.png 2032w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-29-at-4.30.14-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-29-at-4.30.14-PM-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-29-at-4.30.14-PM-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-29-at-4.30.14-PM-1536x866.png 1536w\" alt=\"Harrisburg\" width=\"2032\" height=\"1146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the trip, graduate TA Cooper Wingert gave students an overview of Harrisburg&#8217;s role in the slavery crisis and the Civil War.\u00a0 Here is a longer version of that discussion from a lecture Cooper delivered at the US Army Heritage and Education Center in 2015:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y5QqEWDn_6k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FEATURED WEBSITE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org\/\"> National Civil War Museum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>FEATURED WEBSITE:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/stoker\/\">Texas Farmer&#8217;s Civil War<\/a> (NCWM \/ HD)<\/li>\n<li>FEATURED WEBSITE:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalharrisburg.com\/exhibits\/eighthward\/\">Digital Harrisburg (Old Eighth Ward)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paheritage.wpengine.com\/article\/a-gathering-at-the-crossroads-memorializing-african-american-trailblazers-and-a-lost-neighborhood-in-harrisburg\/\">Article by Prof. Mealy on the new Crossroads monument<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2018\/06\/05\/the-slave-hunt-confederate-captures-of-african-americans\/\">Blog post about Amos Barnes by Cooper Wingert<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Director Todd Mealy will lead a special tour of African American and Civil War historical sites in Harrisburg.\u00a0 Students will visit the National\u00a0 Civil War Museum and the recently installed Crossroads monument honoring African American leaders and the Old Eighth Ward.\u00a0 Later in the evening, students will also enjoy an outing at a Harrisburg &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/field-trip-to-harrisburg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Field Trip to Harrisburg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-669","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/669\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/teagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}