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Category Archives: Age of Jim Crow
A Post for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2019
[NOTE: Last year at this time, I published a post for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday that focused on my contribution to an assembly commemorating King’s career and significance given at my school on January 16, 1987. This post … Continue reading
The Second Reconstruction: The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1940s-1968, Part 2 (Teaching Civil Rights, 12)
[NOTE: This is the concluding post in my treatment of the Modern American Civil Rights Movement from World War II through the assassination of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. For part 1, go here. A list … Continue reading
Posted in "The Race Beat", Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, Dr. Martin Luther King, Education, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Martin Luther King, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Retirement, Southern History, Sun Belt, Taylor Branch, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, Civil Rights Movement, education, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Prep school teaching, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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The Road to Jim Crow, 1875-1900, Part 1 (Teaching Civil Rights, 10)
[NOTE: As we saw in the previous post in this series, a key element in the eventual acceptance of the defeated South back into the Union on a (more or less) equal basis with the rest of the nation was … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, education, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History, The Blues, The Great Migration, WP Longform
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Midterm Elections, 1866, 2018: Deja Vu (Sort of)
[NOTE: Followers of this blog know that I usually eschew contemporary politics here, but there have been a few exceptions (for example, here and here). And, here’s another one. First, some background. When I was in History graduate school (1968-1973), the … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, Books, Current Events, Education, Historical Reflection, History, History graduate school, History Teaching, memoir, Popular Culture, Research, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Andrew Johnson, Andrew Johnson's "swing around the circle" (1866), Current Events, Donald Trump, Gilded Age, Mid-term elections, Richard White, The Republic for Which it Stands
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The New South: Myth and Reality (Teaching Civil Rights, 9)
[NOTE: This is the first of several posts that will reveal my approach to “teaching Civil Rights” to a class of high school juniors and seniors. I did not do a lot of lecturing in this course, but what I … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Research, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, myth and reality, New South, New South Creed, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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Howlin’ Wolf,1910-1976: His Life, His Times, His Blues (Blues Stories, 28)
A Review of James Segrest and Mark Hoffman, Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. Howlin’ Wolf was born Chester Arthur Burnett, June 10, 1910, near West Point, Mississippi. (His grandfather nicknamed … Continue reading
Posted in "Charley Patton", Age of Jim Crow, American History, Chicago Blues, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Popular Culture, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Son House, Southern History, The "Great Migration", The Blues, Uncategorized, Urban Blues, WP Long Form
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, Blues, Blues Revival of the 1960s, Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Howlin' Wolf biography, James Segrest and Mark Hoffman, Robert Johnson, Southern History, The Blues, The Great Migration, WP Longform
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They don’t call me “Dr. Excitement” for nothin’, you know! (Be True to Your School, 5)
[Note: In a previous post in this series, I discussed how certain personal eccentricities helped me construct a “classroom persona,” one “Dr.,” beard, polyester suit, and awful pun at a time. In this entry, I’d like to offer a few … Continue reading
Posted in "The Race Beat", Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Cold War, Dr. Martin Luther King, Elias Boudinot, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Work, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, The Blues, Uncategorized, Vietnam War
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, Blues, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, Historical Reflection, History Curriculum, History Teaching, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Interdisciplinary Work, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Southern History
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A Local Obituary for “King Cotton” in Georgia (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 27)
A Review of William Rawlings, A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff: The Great Recession and the Death of Small-town Georgia. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2013. * * * * * [At his website, William Rawlings bills himself as an … Continue reading
Skip James, “Emotional Hermit” of the Blues (Blues Stories, 27)
A Review of Stephen Calt, I’d Rather Be the Devil: Skip James + the Blues. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2008. His music was the defiant product of an emotional hermit: “I wanted it different all the way—I always have had … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, American History, Books, Delta Blues, History, History of Rock and Roll, Popular Culture, Skip James, Son House, Southern History, Stephen Calt, The Blues, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Blues Revival of the 1960s, Eric Clapton, Grafton Wisconsin, H.C. Speir, Mississippi Delta Blues, Newport Folk Festival, Skip James, Stephen Calt
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