[Note: In June, I put up a post supposedly summarizing the twelfth year of this blog. Problem was, though, that I wasn’t really ready to do it, yet my self-set deadline pushed me onward. I was not happy with the result, but I did nothing through the rest of June, nor did I think about it again when the time came to create a post for July.

Now, however, I am ready. I hope to put up a more detailed post of what I tried to achieve between July 2021 and June 2022.

Any comments, pro- or con-, will be welcomed by yours truly.

The following listings do not include visits to either “Home Page,” “Archives,” or “About.”]

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New Posts, Year Twelve, 2021-2022:

Fourth of July Orations in Antebellum Georgia, 2

The Civil War in Fifty Minutes, Part 1

The Civil War in Fifty Minutes, Part 2

Yazoo and Upcountry Georgia, Part 1

Yazoo and Upcountry Georgia, Part 2

“Retro-Posts,” 1: An Introduction: “About” page; First Post

MLK Day, 2022, and “Retro-Post,” 2

“Retro-Post,” 3

Reflections on Race, Part 1

Reflections on Race, Part 2

“Retro-Post,” 4

Shakespeare’s Plays as a Pandemic Project

[Note: “Retired But Not Shy” has just finished its twelfth year. When I began back in June 2010, I was worried that I would not be able to provide fresh material for the blog. But, boy, did I ever surprised myself: by now, I’ve put up more than two hundred posts! Still, I wondered how many of those posts loyal visitors had read. So, this year, to help readers of “Retired But Not Shy” along, I created “Retro-posts.” For these, I dived into the blog’s archives and retrieved several early posts that I hoped would inform current readers of what I had wanted to achieve “back in the day” (i.e., when I launched the blog but had scarcely a clue as to what that entailed). I’m not sure how helpful this strategy was, but I shall probably continue “Retro-posts” at least through year thirteen.]

Top Ten Posts, Year Twelve, 2021-2022:

Mississippi Blues Trail, Part 1

Howlin’ Wolf

Post for the 4th of July for in Georgia, 2019

My Vietnam War and Welcome to It

Prep School Teaching with a PhD, Part 1

Skip James

Blues Theology, Part 1

Yazoo Land Fraud, Part 1

The New South: Myth and Reality

Teaching History “Backwards”

Top Ten Posts of All Time, 2010-2022:

Prep School Teaching with a PhD, Part 1

Teaching History “Backwards“

Georgia Governor Wilson Lumpkin, 1831-1835

Son House

Blues Theology, Part 1

Yazoo Land Fraud, Part 1

Mississippi John Hurt

Bobby “Blue” Bland

Skip James

Chitlin’ Circuit

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For those interested in reading more of my reflections on history, here are links to my books on the subject:

Rancorous Enmities and Blind Partialities:  Parties and Factions in Georgia, 1807-1845 (University Press of America, 2015)

In Pursuit of Dead Georgians:  One Historian’s Excursions into the History of His Adopted State (iUniverse, 2015)

Politics on the Periphery:  Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806 (University of Delaware Press, 1986)