{"id":7,"date":"2020-10-20T17:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:25:08","slug":"course-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/","title":{"rendered":"Art vs. Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-123\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/474\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-21-at-3.39.51-PM-300x120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/474\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-21-at-3.39.51-PM-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/474\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-21-at-3.39.51-PM-1024x411.png 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/474\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-21-at-3.39.51-PM-768x308.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/474\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-21-at-3.39.51-PM-1536x616.png 1536w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/474\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-21-at-3.39.51-PM-1200x481.png 1200w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/474\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-21-at-3.39.51-PM.png 1636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">(George E. Marsh, 1935)<\/p>\n<p>The Dust Bowl was a disaster rooted in overconfidence through the history of manifest destiny that was present during the Western Expansion of the U.S. According to the Independence Hall Association of Philadelphia, \u201cAt the heart of manifest destiny was the pervasive belief in American cultural and racial superiority.\u201d (Manifest Destiny) Americans believed, as they concurred the West, claiming land as theirs, that they were entitled to do so. It was their destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(George E. Marsh, 1935) The Dust Bowl was a disaster rooted in overconfidence through the history of manifest destiny that was present during the Western Expansion of the U.S. According to the Independence Hall Association of Philadelphia, \u201cAt the heart of manifest destiny was the pervasive belief in American cultural and racial superiority.\u201d (Manifest Destiny) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/history-2203-fall-2020-lpropst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}