{"id":40560,"date":"2011-02-23T10:58:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=40560"},"modified":"2016-01-14T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:33:13","slug":"postcard-colorful-revolutionary-accompanies-history-professor-to-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/23\/postcard-colorful-revolutionary-accompanies-history-professor-to-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard: Revolutionary icon accompanies history professor to class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/web_110210_karen_melvin_3216.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/web_110210_karen_melvin_3216.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large alignright\" alt=\"web_110210_karen_melvin_3216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preparing to leave her Pettengill Hall office to teach HIST 390H, &#8220;The Mexican Revolution,&#8221; Assistant Professor of History <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x110744.xml\">Karen Melvin<\/a> gazes fondly at a figure of the colorful revolutionary Emiliano Zapata that will accompany her into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zapata was going with me to Hist 390H because we were discussing a book about Zapata and his push for land reform during the Mexican Revolution,&#8221; Melvin says. She picked up the plastic statue on her most recent research trip to Mexico, where she looked at alms that people in 17th- and 18th- century Mexico sent back to Spain, some for the purpose of ransoming Christian captives from North Africa. &#8220;Zapata&#8217;s one of the fairly ubiquitous figures you can find in craft-souvenir places, but I liked the combination of revolutionary figure mixed with one of my favorite holidays, Day of the Dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Melvin&#8217;s course ties in with a two-day symposium on Latin American revolutions that the Latin American Studies faculty, with support of a Mellon Innovation Fund, hosts March 9 and 10 at Bates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparing to leave her Pettengill Hall office to teach HIST 390H, &#8220;The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-40560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86959,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40560\/revisions\/86959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}