{"id":177,"date":"2008-10-22T15:56:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2008-10-22T15:56:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:56:21","slug":"our-community-our-state-our-nation-american-history-in-the-modern-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Our Community, Our State, Our Nation: American History in the Modern Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>October kicks off a series of lectures and discussions with Warren  Hofstra, co-sponsored by seven local non-profit groups. Each of these  lectures will engage large questions in American history in the context  of the communities we create in our localities, our states, and in our  nation. The series will be a means of asking big questions of small  places and of a large nation. Each will raise issues about how Americans  across three centuries have viewed the proper sphere of government as  what is public in public life.  Answers varied from time to time and  from the points of view of those who raised them. But their  consideration will provide a forum for people in Winchester and the  surrounding community to ask what can and what should be done at a time  of significant change in American life.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Hofstra is the Stewart Bell Professor of History and director of  the Community History Project at Shenandoah University. His areas of  expertise include the American frontier, Virginia history, culture of  the Cold War, and vernacular architecture. For more information on the  series call Sandy Snyder (540) 535-3543, or email ssnyder@su.edu. All lectures are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The topic of the October lecture is &#8220;American Frontiers: National  Identity, Frederick Jackson Turner, and the Question of Significance.&#8221;  The program begins at 7:30 pm at the Quaker Meeting House, Corner of  Piccadilly and Washington St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October kicks off a series of lectures and discussions with Warren Hofstra, co-sponsored by seven local non-profit groups. Each of these lectures will engage large questions in American history in the context of the communities we create in our localities, our states, and in our nation. The series will be a means of asking big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Community, Our State, Our Nation: American History in the Modern Era<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational-events","tag-informational-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}