{"id":1668,"date":"2012-11-19T22:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T22:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2016-12-02T20:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:36:26","slug":"reconstructing-the-american-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2012\/11\/19\/reconstructing-the-american-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibition &#8211; Reconstructing &#8216;The American Reader&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/11\/PB180154.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1689\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/11\/PB180154-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The American Reader Title Page\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/11\/PB180154-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/11\/PB180154.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Special Collections &amp; University Archives\u00a0is pleased to announce\u00a0our newest exhibition <em>R<\/em><em>econstructing &#8216;The American Reader&#8217;<\/em> from English Department graduate student Miriam Janechek which highlights a new type of research now possible with access to searchable digitized copies of books online.\u00a0 <em>The American Reader\u00a0<\/em>is a textbook printed in 1808 which, like other readers, combines hundreds of excerpts from different types of published works but includes no citations.\u00a0\u00a0By searching the\u00a0massive numbers of books now\u00a0searchable in the Google Books Project, in combination with the wealth of 18th century books in Special Collections, it becomes possible to trace the origins of the passages to find the original publications, collect them together and display them to reveal a snapshot\u00a0of the types of works that made up <em>The American Reader<\/em> and more broadly that comprised education in 1808, just as the United States was\u00a0abandoning European educational models and\u00a0developing a sense of national identity through education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition can be viewed just outside Special Collections &amp; University Archives on the third floor of the Main Library anytime the library is open and continues until January 3, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections &amp; University Archives\u00a0is pleased to announce\u00a0our newest exhibition Reconstructing &#8216;The American Reader&#8217; from English Department graduate student Miriam Janechek which highlights a new type of research now possible with access to searchable digitized copies of books online.\u00a0 The American Reader\u00a0is a textbook printed in 1808 which, like other readers, combines hundreds of excerpts<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2012\/11\/19\/reconstructing-the-american-reader\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;New Exhibition &#8211; Reconstructing &#8216;The American Reader&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,58,60,59],"syndication":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}