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Category Archives: History
Teaching Prep School with a PhD, 4: Q & A ( October 2018)
[NOTE: Earlier this month, I had yet another opportunity to speak with a group of PhD students at My Old Graduate School (hereafter, MOGS) about the job market out there as they are finishing their doctorates. In the last few years, … Continue reading
Posted in "Education Courses", building a classroom persona, Education, History, History Curriculum, History graduate school, History Teaching, memoir, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged American History, education, Emory University, Graduate Education, History Teaching, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Prep school teaching, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Teaching, Teaching History, The Westminster Schools
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The Road to Jim Crow, 1875-1900, Part 2 (Teaching Civil Rights, 10)
[Note: In the previous post in this series, we looked at the short-term consequences of the acceptance, by white southerners, and many northerners, of the so-called “New South Creed,” which offered a prettified picture of the “Old South” and a … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Historical Reflection, History, Research, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, Civil Rights Movement, education, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Prep school teaching, Southern History, Teaching History, The Blues, The Great Migration, WP Longform
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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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Betts: A Mother’s Memoir, 1923-1964 Part VIII: Betts, Ben, and J.B., 1940-1944
[NOTE: Almost a year ago, I put up what I thought would be the final installment of the series, “Betts: A Mother’s Memoir, 1923-1964.” But I hadn’t considered my “Historical Pack Rat” gene. . . . In the middle of … Continue reading
The Story Behind “A Scrappy Fourth of July” (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 29)
[Note: Last time, I regaled you with “Confessions of a Historical Pack Rat,” a light-hearted look at where I’ve gotten some of the material for posts at “Retired But Not Shy” (hereafter RBNS) over its first eight years. As it … Continue reading
Posted in 4th of July, American "republicanism", American History, American Revolution, Education, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Popular Culture, Research, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged American History, American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, education, Georgia and the American Revolution, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching History
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Draining the Creeks (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 28)
A Review of William W. Winn, The Triumph of the Ecunnau-Nuxulgee: Land Speculators, George M. Troup, State Rights, and the Removal of the Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama, 1825-38. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2015. [Note: As an historian … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Books, Creek Indians, Education, George M. Troup, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Teaching, Research, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged American History, American History and Culture, George M. Troup, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, history, History Teaching, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History, William McIntosh, WP Longform
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Georgia Visions: A Continuing Drama in at Least Six Acts, Part 2 (Adventures in Interdisciplinary Land, 10)
[NOTE: This is the concluding part of a post derived from a talk I presented, on two occasions, to foreign students visiting my school, on the history of the state of Georgia. For Part I, go here.] * * * … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Georgia History, Henry Grady, Historical Reflection, History, History Teaching, Interdisciplinary Work, Martin Luther King, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Sun Belt, Teaching, Tom Watson, Uncategorized
Tagged American History, American History and Culture, Civil Rights Movement, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, history, History Teaching, Interdisciplinary Work, Prep school teaching, Teaching History
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