{"id":235,"date":"2014-01-20T23:05:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T06:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/?p=235"},"modified":"2014-01-21T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:02:13","slug":"words-that-remade-america-for-thurs-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/2014\/01\/words-that-remade-america-for-thurs-123\/","title":{"rendered":"Words That Remade America (for Thurs 1\/23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prepare for Thursday&#8217;s d<a href=\"http:\/\/norvig.com\/Gettysburg\/sld001.htm\">i<\/a>scussion with the following readings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abrahamlincolnonline.org\/lincoln\/speeches\/gettysburg.htm\">Read the full text of the Gettysburg Address<\/a> &#8211; note there are several versions<br \/>\nRead &amp; prepare to discuss Gary Wills, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Wills.WordsThatRemadeAmerica.pdf\">The Words that Remade America<\/a>&#8221; from <em>The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly<\/em> (PDF)<br \/>\nRead &amp; prepare to discuss Ted Widmer&#8217;s opinion piece for the <em>New York Times<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/19\/the-other-gettysburg-address\/?_r=0\">The Other Gettysburg Address<\/a>&#8221; 19 November 2013 (why that date?)<\/p>\n<p>If interested, take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/addressofhone3521ever\">Edward Everett&#8217;s speech<\/a> and explore other related primary source documents in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/gettysburg-address\/exhibition-items.html\">National Archives<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus link:<\/strong> Lincoln was there, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/will-the-real-abraham-lincoln-please-stand-up-3431\/#the-new-lincoln-photo-1.jpg\">so was at least one camera<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/journal-c.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-259\" alt=\"journal-c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/journal-c.gif\" width=\"114\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><strong>Journal Prompt #1<\/strong> &#8211; Your first journal entry is <strong>due on Thursday Jan 23<\/strong>, in the &#8220;My Learning Journal&#8221; section on Blackboard. It should be at least 350 words long and posted by 9:00 am. Journal #1 can comment on\/connect any of our first week&#8217;s readings. You should also mention which current &#8220;American thought&#8221; forum(s) you will be following this term &#8211; choose from the &#8220;<strong>Today&#8217;s Thinkers<\/strong>&#8221; links in the course left sidebar. You may also use this initial journal entry to tell me a little about yourself and why you are interested in this class.<\/p>\n<p><em>Metaphysical Club<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; start reading Part One, and you may begin writing in the club journal at any point. Posts\/discussion on <strong>Part One should be complete by Thursday, Feb 6th<\/strong>. Remember, participation in the Metaphysical Club book discussion group is required if you are taking the class for Honors, and open to anyone else in the class for extra credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepare for Thursday&#8217;s discussion with the following readings: Read the full text of the Gettysburg Address &#8211; note there are several versions Read &amp; prepare to discuss Gary Wills, &#8220;The Words that Remade America&#8221; from The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly (PDF) Read &amp; prepare to discuss Ted Widmer&#8217;s opinion piece for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}