{"id":11220,"date":"2019-11-01T17:10:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T21:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=11220"},"modified":"2019-11-01T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T21:10:33","slug":"exhibit-thanksgiving-day-november-24-1864-united-we-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/exhibit-thanksgiving-day-november-24-1864-united-we-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | Thanksgiving-Day, November 24, 1864,              United We Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"823\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/10\/nast1-bdr_71086_MASTER-1-1024x823.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/10\/nast1-bdr_71086_MASTER-1-1024x823.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/10\/nast1-bdr_71086_MASTER-1-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Harper&#8217;s Weekly, December 1864; Brown University Library, Special Collections<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Created by famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast, these eight vignettes depict a \u201cstate of the Union\u201d featuring President Abraham Lincoln during his reelection year. Each rendering touches on a significant factor during the Civil War, which was in its fourth year and with no clear victor at the time. The double-page image, published in Harper\u2019s Weekly in December 1864, reflects the artist\u2019s more illustrative work. Nast is also credited with crafting the modern American representation of Santa Claus during the course of his time at the magazine.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exhibit Dates<\/strong>: November 1 &#8211; 30<em>,<\/em> 2019<br><strong>Exhibit Time<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">John Hay Library Hours<\/a><br><strong>Exhibit Location<\/strong>: Second Floor Landing, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect&nbsp;Street, Providence    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created by famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast, these eight vignettes depict a \u201cstate of the Union\u201d featuring President Abraham Lincoln during his reelection year. Each rendering touches on a significant factor during the Civil War, which was in its fourth year and with no clear victor at the time. The double-page image, published in Harper\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/exhibit-thanksgiving-day-november-24-1864-united-we-stand\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Exhibit | Thanksgiving-Day, November 24, 1864,              United We Stand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5,34,35,8,155,20,21,1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-home-page","category-special-collections","category-spotlights","category-uncategorized","category-uncategorized-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}