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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things turned out, not only did I complete that book, but I also put together a collection of my essays--published and unpublished--on Georgia history.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.

Book Notes: The “Great Migration”; Gore Vidal’s “Lincoln”

Posted on March 11, 2011 by georgelamplugh

Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America(1991) Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010)      A while ago, I posted a review of two works … Continue reading →

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Paying the Cost to be the Boss, with apologies to B.B. King (Growing Up With Vietnam, IV)

Posted on March 1, 2011 by georgelamplugh

[This concluding segment of the lecture was the part that, unfortunately in my view, I found I needed to update  virtually every year, in order to fit more recent adventures in American foreign policy into the context created by the autobiographical portion of … Continue reading →

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Well, We’ve All Got to Start Somewhere, I Suppose. . . .

Posted on February 1, 2011 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  This was my first blog entry, created in June 2010, but for some reason (an error on my part, I’m sure) it was not actually “published” (as a post) but (evidently) “uploaded” (as a “page”) instead, which, I eventually found … Continue reading →

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Coming to Terms (Growing Up With Vietnam, III)

Posted on February 1, 2011 by georgelamplugh

 [This segment covers the period between 1968, when I left the Army for grad school in History, and 1988, when the Vietnam Warfinally ended for me, sort of. For a list of sources, see Part IV] * * * * … Continue reading →

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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (Growing Up With Vietnam, II)

Posted on January 8, 2011 by georgelamplugh

[As the title indicates, this part of the story concerns my two-year tour of active duty in the U.S. Army, 1966-1968. (Go here for Part I, on my pre-Army life and the early years of the Vietnam involvement.  For a … Continue reading →

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Joseph Bryan and John Randolph,from Annual Surveys, 1806-1809 (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 3)

Posted on December 18, 2010 by georgelamplugh

[My last post included an example of a potentially useful entry in my “research journal,” which I have kept since beginning my current project back in the mid-1990s.  I also got in the habit, after the  research had generated so much information … Continue reading →

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Research Journal (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 2)

Posted on December 18, 2010 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  I kept a rather primitive “research journal” during my grad school days, but I did not make much use of  it once my traveling was over, so that aspect of my research had almost no effect on the final shape of the … Continue reading →

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Only A Small Cloud on the Horizon (Growing Up With Vietnam, I)

Posted on December 17, 2010 by georgelamplugh

  [Over the next several posts, I plan to serialize  a lecture, “Growing Up With Vietnam,” that played a very important part in my life and in my teaching career.  It took a long time to write, as you will learn, but, once  finished, … Continue reading →

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Two Books I Wish I’d Read While I Was Still Teaching Civil Rights (Teaching Civil Rights, 1)

Posted on September 20, 2010 by georgelamplugh

A Review of: Peniel E. Joseph, Dark Days, Bright Nights:  From Black Power to Barack Obama.  New York:  Basic Books, 2010. Glenn Browder, with Artemesia Stanberry, Stealth Reconstruction:  An Untold Story of Racial Politics in Recent Southern History.  Montgomery, Ala.:  NewSouth … Continue reading →

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Gotta Love Technology, Don’t Ya?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by georgelamplugh

Once again, it’s been a while since my last post, for which,  once more, I apologize.  I’ve been chugging along, gobbling up antebellum Georgia newspapers, thanks to the wonderful web site “Digital Library of Georgia”   (DLG) at “Galileo.”  Today I finished … Continue reading →

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