{"id":9193,"date":"2016-03-23T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=9193"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:39:06","slug":"crofts-63-author-of-new-lincoln-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/03\/23\/crofts-63-author-of-new-lincoln-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Crofts \u201963 &#8211; author of new Lincoln book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daniel W. Crofts \u201963<\/strong> is a professor of history at the College of New Jersey.\u00a0 His specialty is in American history in the years immediately prior to the Civil War.\u00a0 His new book, <em>Lincoln &amp; the Politics of Slavery<\/em>, will be published this spring, and available in the Wabash bookstore in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/03\/23\/crofts-63-author-of-new-lincoln-book\/dan-crofts-lincoln-book\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9194\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9194\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/dan-crofts-Lincoln-book.jpg\" alt=\"dan crofts Lincoln book\" width=\"189\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/dan-crofts-Lincoln-book.jpg 433w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/dan-crofts-Lincoln-book-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDan was on campus in 2013 for the Civil War Symposium as keynote speaker with \u201cLincoln\u2019s Plea for Peace:\u00a0 The Would-Be 13<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment and the Coming of the Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Wabash, Dan earned his PhD at Yale University. He has taught at TCNJ since 1975.\u00a0 His research focuses on the Old South, and the North-South Sectional Conflict that led to Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Dan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel W. Crofts \u201963 is a professor of history at the College of New Jersey.\u00a0 His specialty is in American history in the years immediately prior to the Civil War.\u00a0 His new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/03\/dan-crofts-Lincoln-book.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9197,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193\/revisions\/9197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}