Category Archives: memoir

My Brother, the Writer: Act 2

Posted on May 15, 2018 by georgelamplugh

A Review of Rick Lamplugh, Deep into Yellowstone: A Year’s Immersion in Grandeur & Controversy (2017). Available at amazon.com in both paperback and e-book formats. Several years ago, I reviewed my younger brother Rick’s book, In the Temple of Wolves … Continue reading →

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History, Family, and Memory in the Jim Crow South: Comparisons and Contrasts (Teaching Civil Rights, 8)

Posted on March 1, 2018 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: Both during my teaching career and since I retired from the classroom, I have been fascinated by the history of the Civil Rights Movement. I decided early on that, if my students were to understand the accomplishments of the … Continue reading →

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Reckoning with “The Dispossessed Majority,” 1989 (Adventures in Interdisciplinary Land, 9)

Posted on February 1, 2018 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: As I’ve explained elsewhere (for example, here and here), some of my “adventures in interdisciplinary land” came in response to requests from colleagues in other disciplines asking for help in dealing with an “historical” issue. Here is another example, … Continue reading →

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“Who was that Masked Man?”: Building a Classroom Persona (Be True to Your School, 4)

Posted on October 15, 2017 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: In a previous post in this series, I saluted the two best teachers I’ve ever had, Miss Gertrude Weaver (high school) and Professor James Rabun (graduate school). In addition to deep knowledge of history and loads of energy and … Continue reading →

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The Ol’ History Curriculum Merry-go-Round Comes ‘Round Again (History Lesson Plans, 12)

Posted on September 15, 2017 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: In a two-part series in The American Historian, David Arnold reviews a recent movement aimed at reforming the way history is taught in colleges and universities. An eighteen-year veteran of teaching history in a community college, Professor Arnold’s average … Continue reading →

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BETTS, A MOTHER’S MEMOIR, 1923-1964, Part VII: After Words–Betts on Family, History, and Family History

Posted on August 15, 2017 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: When I posted Part VI of this series, I thought it was the concluding installment. And then I returned to a notion advanced in Part I: Betts had been a “late-blooming historian.” I still wondered about her decision to undertake … Continue reading →

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Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Hillbillies

Posted on August 1, 2017 by georgelamplugh

A Review of J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York: HarperCollins, 2016. [NOTE: An inveterate reader of op-eds, I was well aware of this book months before I bought it. According to … Continue reading →

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BETTS: A MOTHER’S MEMOIR, 1923-1964, Part VI: An Independent Woman, 1964-2013

Posted on July 15, 2017 by georgelamplugh

[For earlier posts in this series, see Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V.] Betts’ work as family historian and memoirist ended in 1995, with the completion of her memoir, which carried the story of her life … Continue reading →

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BETTS: A MOTHER’S MEMOIR, 1923-1964, Part V: Trying to Make It in Postwar America

Posted on June 15, 2017 by georgelamplugh

[Note: This segment of Betts’ memoir carries her family’s story from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s. For earlier installments, go here, here, here, and here.] * * * * * Shortly after our second son, Rick, was born, on November … Continue reading →

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BETTS: A MOTHER’S MEMOIR, 1923-1964, Part IV: World War II

Posted on May 15, 2017 by georgelamplugh

[Note: This installment of Betts’ memoir takes her from the 1930s through the Second World War. (For previous posts, go here, here, and here.)] * * * * * I spent a lot of summer vacations with my grandfather and grandmother [Dobson] … Continue reading →

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