{"id":8,"date":"2019-09-29T06:02:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T06:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2019-10-07T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T18:29:21","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/locke.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" width=\"203\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/locke.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/locke-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/locke-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/locke-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><figcaption>Joseph Locke; Co-creator and editor of The American Yawp.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/\">The American Yawp<\/a> is DH project that was created in 2014  by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhv.edu\/arts-and-sciences\/about\/faculty\/listing\/joseph-locke.aspx\">Joseph Locke<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drbenwright.com\/\">Ben Wright<\/a> as an alternative  to the standard American History Textbook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The American Yawp is open sourced, meaning those who want to comment on   specific text, are free to do so. These comments are then analyzed by one of the many scholars who curate the site, and they decide whether or not a valid contribution was made to the text. This practice of <a href=\"http:\/\/intro.digitalwcu.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Values_%26_Goals\">allowing others to contribute <\/a>to the text makes for a textbook that does not follow a single narrative, but rather a multitude of narratives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Significance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wright-ben-600-2018-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" width=\"186\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wright-ben-600-2018-03.jpg 600w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wright-ben-600-2018-03-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><figcaption>Ben Wright; Co-creator and editor of The American Yawp<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since The American Yawp is filled with a host of accounts surrounding American history, it can tell a story that may have never been told before, and do so on a large scale. Its ability to be open-sourced and free makes it highly accessible to scholars of any age and financial standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/methodology\/\">See Methodology<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Yawp is DH project that was created in 2014 by Joseph Locke and Ben Wright as an alternative to the standard American History Textbook. The American Yawp is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/YawpSquad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}