{"id":1880,"date":"2012-11-05T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:48:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About This Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Bowdoin Remembers: Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<figure id=\"attachment_131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/11\/2652MemHall.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-131  \" title=\"Memorial Hall, Bowdoin College\" src=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/11\/2652MemHall-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/11\/2652MemHall-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/11\/2652MemHall-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/11\/2652MemHall.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial Hall (under construction), built to honor Bowdoin\u2019s own who served in the Civil War<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A variety of campus programs, panels, and exhibitions are being presented throughout the calendar year, \u00a0both\u00a0to remind us of this pivotal event in American history and to encourage us to explore contemporary issues that the Civil War narrative suggests\u2014notions of\u00a0self, memory, nationhood, and social conscience, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of this sesquicentennial commemoration, the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections &amp; Archives\u00a0presents\u00a0this blog as a daily reminder of what occurred 150 years ago.\u00a0 The posts derive from among the historical resources in Special Collections:\u00a0 a passage from a letter to a soldier; a soldier\u2019s diary entry; a note of condolence; a daily surgeon\u2019s morning report; an account of activities on the home front.\u00a0 Cumulatively, these entries provide a panoramic view of the lives, emotions, and occupations of the individuals who experienced a sometimes\u00a0horrific, often mundane existence during the difficult year of 1863.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks go to Glenn Skillin, a friend of Special Collections &amp; Archives, whose preliminary research was crucial in developing the content for this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowdoin Remembers: Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War \u00a0 A variety of campus programs, panels, and exhibitions are being presented throughout the calendar year, \u00a0both\u00a0to remind us of this pivotal event in American history and to encourage us to explore contemporary issues that the Civil War narrative suggests\u2014notions of\u00a0self, memory, nationhood, and social conscience, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1880","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1880\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}