{"id":103,"date":"2013-11-21T11:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/?p=103"},"modified":"2013-11-21T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:11:56","slug":"dr-dzurec-on-prisoners-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/2013\/11\/21\/dr-dzurec-on-prisoners-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dzurec on Prisoners of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2013\/11\/home_cover.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-104\" alt=\"home_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2013\/11\/home_cover-199x300.gif\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Dr. David Dzurec has published &#8220;Prisoners of War and American Self-Image During the American Revolution&#8221; in the November 2013 edition of the journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/wih.sagepub.com\/\">War in History<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>The article examines how accounts of the experiences of prisoners of war during the American Revolution helped those fighting for the cause of independence to create a definition of American liberty.\u00a0 In highlighting the \u2018barbarous and cruel\u2019 nature of British treatment of prisoners, these narratives allowed those who supported the patriot cause to highlight the difference between themselves and their former colonial masters. As prisoners\u2019 accounts appeared in newspapers, broadsides, and individual volumes, the plight of captive Americans became a form of shorthand for the struggle of the entire nation as it tried to secure its independence from the \u2018savage Britons&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. David Dzurec has published &#8220;Prisoners of War and American Self-Image During the American Revolution&#8221; in the November 2013 edition of the journal War in History.\u00a0\u00a0The article examines how accounts of the experiences of prisoners of war during the American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/2013\/11\/21\/dr-dzurec-on-prisoners-of-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[8,17],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department-publications","tag-department-of-history","tag-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}