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Category Archives: History
Growing Up White in the Segregated South: A View from North Carolina (Teaching Civil Rights, 14)
A Review of: Melton A. McLaurin, Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South (2nd ed.) Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1998. [Regular readers of this blog will remember that near the end of my career … Continue reading
A Post for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday, 2021: “A Prayer for our Country”
[Note: A year ago, I reflected in this space on the play of “light” and “darkness” in the rhetoric of Dr. King, drawing on remarks by the late Georgia Congressman John Lewis and Republican columnist Michael Gerson. I ended by confessing … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Education, Episcopal Church, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Teaching, Interdisciplinary Work, Martin Luther King, memoir, Popular Culture, Retirement, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Uncategorized
Tagged "Prayer for our Country", 2020 presidential election;, Covid-19, Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, Joe Biden, MLK Holiday
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John Wereat and Georgia, 1775-1799, Part 2 (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 33)
[NOTE: This is the second, and final, post about John Wereat, who turned up at almost every crucial event in Georgia’s history between the outbreak of the American Revolution and his death in 1799. Part 1 followed him from his … Continue reading
Posted in American History, American Revolution, Education, Georgia History, History, History Curriculum, History graduate school, History Teaching, John Wereat, memoir, Philadelphia Convention (1787), Research, Retirement, Southern (Georgia) History, Stephen Calt, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged American History, American Revolution in Georgia, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, history, John Wereat, Prep school teaching, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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John Wereat and Georgia, 1775-1799, Part 1 (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 33)
[NOTE: I first met John Wereat in the late 1960s, while researching Georgia politics in the era of the American Revolution. (By that time, he’d been dead for about 175 years!) I soon found him fascinating, because almost nothing had … Continue reading
Posted in American History, American Revolution, Constitution of 1787, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Teaching, John Wereat, Philadelphia Convention (1787), Research, Retirement, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Uncategorized, Yazoo Land Fraud
Tagged American History, American Revolution in Georgia, Georgia and the American Revolution, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, history, History Teaching, Prep school teaching, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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The Vietnam War and American Culture(s), Part 3: “Passionate Historians,” and Selected Sources on the Vietnam War
[NOTE: It’s awfully easy to stereotype historians as calm, objective, even bloodless observers of the past, especially when you read a garden-variety history textbook. But, when one moves to more specialized works, there is room for a historian to bring … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Books, Cold War, History, History Teaching, Research, Retirement, Teaching, Uncategorized, Vietnam War, WP Long Read
Tagged American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, education, Historical Reflection, History Teaching, Retirement, Teaching, Teaching History, Vietnam War, wp longread
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A Review of Loren Baritz, Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did (1985); and Christian Appy, American Reckoning: The Vietnam … Continue reading
[Note: 2020 has rapidly become a “Year of Discontent” in the United States. The coronavirus–and our government’s seeming inability, or unwillingness, to bring it under control–has produced much of the pervasive anger and frustration currently testing the strengths of the … Continue reading
4th of July Oratory in Antebellum Georgia–In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 32
4th of July Oration, Hawkinsville, Georgia, 1838—Dr. William Germany (excerpts) [Milledgeville Federal Union, August 14, 1838] [Note: Over the past few years, I have tried to show how Georgians celebrated the Fourth of July before the Civil War. (See, for … Continue reading
Posted in 4th of July, American History, American Revolution, Colonial Georgia, Current Events, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Teaching, Interdisciplinary Work, Research, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged American History, American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, American Revolution in Georgia, education, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, history, History Teaching, Interdisciplinary Work, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History, WP Longform
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To Ben on Father’s Day, 2020: “Ben as Dad”
[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
Posted in American History, Delaware, Education, family history, genealogy, Historical Reflection, History, memoir, Popular Culture, Research, Retirement, Uncategorized
Tagged American Dad, American History and Culture, Ben Lamplugh, family history, Father's Day, Historical Reflection, history, Newark (Delaware), Retirement
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