{"id":107,"date":"2014-10-16T18:27:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T18:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/?p=107"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:22:56","slug":"european-history-students-visit-the-peabody-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2014\/10\/16\/european-history-students-visit-the-peabody-library\/","title":{"rendered":"European History Students Visit the Peabody Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, September 23, Dr. Hudgins&#8217; HIST 313 students walked to the Peabody Library in Mt. Vernon Square to see original editions of the books they&#8217;ve been talking about in class.\u00a0 &#8220;Europe 1815-1914&#8221; has been reading <em>Heroes of Invention<\/em> by Christine MacLeod, wherein the author discusses how the great inventors of the Industrial Revolution were celebrated by authors like Samuel Smiles and Bennett Woodcroft.\u00a0 Students got to handle original souvenirs from the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, and leaf through Victorian editions of the biographies of James Watt and others.\u00a0 This was the first time this semester that the class got to\u00a0touch original artifacts.\u00a0\u00a0They are learning that, most of the time, the primary sources that they handle\u00a0are either transcriptions, translations, or pixelated images on a computer screen.\u00a0 The class thanks Mr. Paul Espinosa at the Peabody Library for his time and expertise!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Peabody.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2014\/10\/Peabody.jpg\" alt=\"Peabody\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a>A &#8220;fisheye&#8221; photograph of the library by Jeff Lee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, September 23, Dr. Hudgins&#8217; HIST 313 students walked to the Peabody Library in Mt. Vernon Square to see original editions of the books they&#8217;ve been talking about in class.\u00a0 &#8220;Europe 1815-1914&#8221; has been reading Heroes of Invention by Christine MacLeod, wherein the author discusses how the great inventors of the Industrial Revolution were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2014\/10\/16\/european-history-students-visit-the-peabody-library\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">European History Students Visit the Peabody Library<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}