{"id":1,"date":"2023-05-11T00:16:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T04:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-05-13T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T18:08:17","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Westward Expansion: A Very Abbreviated Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a small project inspired by Professor Christen Mucher&#8217;s course at Smith College, <em>Trade &amp; Theft in Early America,\u00a0<\/em>and by <em>A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing<\/em>, an amazing public history project co-directed by Professors Jennifer Guglielmo and Michelle Joffroy, also at Smith College. Professor Diana Sierra Becerra worked on the domestic workers&#8217; timeline as project coordinator, and introduced me to public history. She now teaches at UMass Amherst. I want to be any of them when I grow up.<\/p>\n<p>My intent for this project was to distill the timeline of a major American historical narrative down to its simplest form, to point out an obvious and undeniable flow.<\/p>\n<p>All of the facts presented here are easily verifiable with a Google search. For many of these things, there are links to primary sources, or digital versions on public record. An index is included on the last slide.<\/p>\n<p>All of the images were generated by me using Midjourney AI, with the exception of the painting\u00a0<em>American Progress<\/em>, which is in the public domain and free to use without restriction.<\/p>\n<p>~ Dori Mondon, &#8216;AC 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong>And now, let&#8217;s begin:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Choosing where to begin telling a history is always an interesting thought process, but it&#8217;s a really important one to think about. Since religion has been used as the biggest justification for worldwide expansion, it seemed to make the most sense here to start with <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/lets-start-here-the-petrine-doctrine\/\">the papacy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About: This is a small project inspired by Professor Christen Mucher&#8217;s course at Smith College, Trade &amp; Theft in Early America,\u00a0and by A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing, an amazing public history project co-directed by Professors Jennifer Guglielmo and Michelle Joffroy, also at Smith College. Professor Diana Sierra Becerra worked on the domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5006,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westward-expansion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/itsjusthistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}