{"id":122,"date":"2009-03-24T18:34:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T23:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=122"},"modified":"2018-01-21T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:36:07","slug":"political-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2009\/03\/24\/political-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections has two manuscript collections related to state and national politics: The <a title=\"Arends Finding Aid\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.iwu.edu\/library\/services\/Documents\/leslie_arends.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Arends Congressional Collection<\/a> and the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention papers of IWU PoliSci professor and Con-Con delegate John Wenum. The 1970 Con Con resulted in a first-ever state Constitution that explicitly guaranteed citizens the right to a healthy environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Arends Collection is well organized and largely unused. The Wenum Collection has not been examined since acquired and awaits some eager researcher&#8217;s eyes to tell us what treasures it may hold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Collections has two manuscript collections related to state and national politics: The Leslie Arends Congressional Collection and the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention papers of IWU PoliSci professor and Con-Con delegate John Wenum. The 1970 Con Con resulted in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2009\/03\/24\/political-science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,7,10],"tags":[28,39,48,50],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-departmental-histories","category-faculty","category-unexplored-collections","tag-environmental-studies","tag-manuscripts","tag-politics","tag-primary-sources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}