{"id":34034,"date":"2024-05-15T04:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=34034"},"modified":"2024-05-15T04:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:45:59","slug":"wide-awakes-the-young-americans-who-marched-the-north-to-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=34034","title":{"rendered":"Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/50d958de078b938ff6dbb6379c157a8182e15221\/0_0_14750_11061\/master\/14750.jpg?width=1900&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none\" width=\"318\" height=\"239\" \/>Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan discusses his dramatic new book about a spontaneous movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/article\/2024\/may\/12\/wide-awake-jon-grinspan\">Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta; i am reminded reading something about how people we really engaged with politics, travelling many days to attend a rally or speech, and of course the pols that needed to travel from state to dc for elections and such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When he learned how many Americans voted in 19th-century elections, particularly around the civil war, \u201cthat made me want to find more. <strong><em>Turnout over 80%<\/em><\/strong>? What\u2019s the story behind it? And that kind of guided me into trying to find the human stories, and from there it just seemed so exciting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan discusses his dramatic new book about a spontaneous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[58,57],"class_list":["post-34034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-politics","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34036,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34034\/revisions\/34036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}