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About georgelamplugh

I retired in 2010 after nearly four decades of teaching History at the "prep school" level with a PhD. My new "job" was to finish the book manuscript I'd been working on, in summers only, since 1996. As things turned out, not only did I complete that book, but I also put together a collection of my essays--published and unpublished--on Georgia history. Both volumes were published in the summer of 2015. I continue to work on other writing projects, including a collection of essays on the Blues and, of course, my blog.

A Post for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2023: An Oldie but a Goodie

Posted on January 13, 2023 by georgelamplugh

[Note: As regular readers of this blog know, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., remains one of my heroes, and I try to recognize Dr. King and his accomplishments annually, usually around his national holiday. Over the past few … Continue reading →

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Retro-Post number 5: “Race–and History–Matter” (April 1, 2013)

Posted on September 3, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Anyone who has followed this blog for a while is surely aware that one of my constant themes is the significance of race in the history of the United States. Here is an early example of that dictum, from … Continue reading →

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Blogging Through the Pandemic 2.0: “Retired But Not Shy” at Twelve (revised)

Posted on August 2, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[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 … Continue reading →

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The Making of a Racist

Posted on July 6, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  This post is another in a series examining the Jim Crow-mindset of southern Whites after the Civil War, this time through the eyes of Williams College history professor Charles B. Dew, who grew up in the Jim Crow South.  … Continue reading →

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Blogging Through the Pandemic, 2.0–“Retired But Not Shy” at Twelve

Posted on June 30, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Ah, yes, the end of another blog year at “Retired But Not Shy”! Twelve years and counting, I guess. This past year has been difficult, what with the continuation of the pandemic and the need to create new posts … Continue reading →

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Taking on Shakespeare’s Plays as a “Pandemic Project”

Posted on June 1, 2022 by georgelamplugh

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.  New York:  Barnes & Noble, 1994. (Based on Arthur Henry Bullen’s Stratford Town Edition, Shakespeare Head Press, 1904.)             [Note:  When I retired in May 2010, after teaching for thirty-seven years at The Westminster … Continue reading →

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Retro-Posts, 4: Assault and Battery on the Mother Tongue–“Business-Speak” [September 25, 2012]

Posted on May 1, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note: This relatively brief post is almost a decade old, and it remains one of my favorites. Back in the Fall of 2012, as I was reading our daily paper, I ran across a couple of items that got my … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Race, Part 2 (Teaching Civil Rights, 15)

Posted on April 2, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note: This is the concluding part of a look at how, in retrospect, I came to terms with the question of race in the history of this nation, which I taught for forty years; its present, where I live; and … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Race, Part 1 (Teaching Civil Rights, 15)

Posted on March 2, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  This is another in a series of  posts about a white person who grew up in the South during the Age of Jim Crow and managed to come to terms with the question of race, though usually much later … Continue reading →

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Retro-Posts, 3: “Well, We’ve All Got to Start Somewhere, I Suppose”

Posted on February 1, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Last month, I introduced “Retro-Posts,” an occasional series from this blog, which is now in its twelfth year. In that post, I treated two brief items, the current “About” page and what I called the “first post,” “Hello, World,” … Continue reading →

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