Category Archives: Delaware

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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To Ben on Father’s Day, 2020: “Ben as Dad”

Posted on June 17, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note: I guess that, as a historian who is “retired but not shy,” I’ve spent lots of time over the past decade looking back, on my career as a History teacher and on the road that led me there. It … Continue reading →

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Memories of Betts on Mother’s Day

Posted on May 10, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: The is a re-post of last year’s Mother’s Day offering, honoring my late mother. Except for removing last year’s date from the title and adding this explanatory note, the post is the same as in 2020. If you did … Continue reading →

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Ben, An American Dad, 1921-1986, Part VII: Legacies

Posted on May 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Although I’m sure he never understood it, Ben Lamplugh was a member of the so-called “Greatest Generation.” These were the American men and women who answered their country’s call in the wake of Pearl Harbor and did their parts–overseas … Continue reading →

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Ben, An American Dad, 1921-1986, Part VI: A Dad Alone, 1964-1986

Posted on March 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note: The events of the summer of 1964 [see here] put an end to Betts and Ben Lamplugh’s marriage and shattered their family: Betts’ bus trip to Newark; Ben’s angry phone call later that day; and Betts’ refusal either to … Continue reading →

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“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”: One Historian’s “Contingent” Career, Part 1

Posted on February 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Since I was first introduced to it, I’ve loved the term contingent to describe event(s) in history that suggest there is no single unstoppable, ideological wave moving humanity in some preordained direction (e.g., democracy, Christianity, Marxism, progress, the Enlightenment). … Continue reading →

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Ben, An American Dad, 1921-1986: Part V: Memories of Ben, as “Dad” (2019)

Posted on January 2, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: It’s not normal for me to wax retrospective on Father’s Day, but every so often I do. 2019 was one of those years. I had begun work on this blog series about my father, Ben Lamplugh, and I … Continue reading →

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Ben, an American Dad, 1921-1986, Part IV: Postwar America, 1946-1964

Posted on January 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: When Ben Lamplugh returned home early in 1946, he found himself in a house full of women: Betts and her son Rus were living with her sister Gertie, Gertie’s daughter Lynn, and two boarders, the England sisters, in an … Continue reading →

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Ben: An American Dad, 1921-1986, Part III, World War II

Posted on December 1, 2019 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: This installment in a series about my father’s life and his role as an “American Dad” takes him, his wife, and, eventually, their first child, through the end of the Second World War (For earlier posts, go here and … Continue reading →

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