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Category Archives: Popular Culture
Whose Ox is Being Gore(d)? The Essays of Gore Vidal
A Review of Gore Vidal, United States: Essays 1952-1992 (New York: Broadway Books, 1993) Definition–“essay”: “a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretive.” (Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the … Continue reading
The Mississippi Delta Today, Maybe. . . . (Blues Stories, 22)
A Review of: Richard Grant, Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (Simon & Schuster, 2015) You’re Richard Grant, a native of Great Britain and a journalist whose writing and documentary film work have shed light on cultures … Continue reading
Blues Masters from the Delta (Blues Stories, 21)
A Review of Ted Gioia, Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. [NOTE: Once upon a time, I hoped to write a book on the origins … Continue reading
Posted in "Charley Patton", Age of Jim Crow, Alan Lomax, American History, B.B. King, Bessie Smith, Books, Chicago Blues, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Delta Blues, History, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Popular Culture, Retirement, Robert Johnson, Son House, Southern History, The "Great Migration", The Blues, Uncategorized
Tagged "race records", Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blues Revival of the 1960s, Chitlin' Circuit, Henry Speir, John and Alan Lomax, Mississippi Delta Blues, Skip James, Ted Gioia
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Growing Up White in the Jim Crow South: Two Perspectives from Georgia (Teaching Civil Rights, 3)
A Review of: Hamilton Jordan, A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South (edited by Kathleen Jordan). Athens, Ga., and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2015. Jim Auchmutey, The Class of ’65: A Student, A … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Current Events, Dr. Martin Luther King, Education, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Popular Culture, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Retirement, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Americus Georgia, Clarence Jordan, Greg Wittkamper, Hamilton Jordan, Jim Auchmutey, Teaching Civil Rights
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A Post for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2016
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., has long been one of my personal heroes, beginning when I was a youngster growing up in an industrial suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. Later, after I decided that I wanted to teach History, I … Continue reading
Posted in "The Race Beat", Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Current Events, Dr. Martin Luther King, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, Martin Luther King, Popular Culture, Southern History, Uncategorized
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, Civil Rights Movement, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, history, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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Bubba’s Baedeker: A History Book as Travel Guide to the “Redneck Riviera”
A Review of Harvey H. Jackson III, The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider’s History of the Florida-Alabama Coast (Athens, Ga., University of Georgia Press, 2012) [NOTE: I first read Hardy Jackson’s book in 2012, and it stirred in me … Continue reading
An Anti-Slave Trade Movement in Middle Georgia, 1816-1826? (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 21 )
[Note: Historical research is not always cut and dried. For example, in investigating Georgia politics after the War of 1812, I came upon a movement mounted in Middle Georgia against certain aspects of the legal domestic slave trade, targeting traders who … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Education, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Popular Culture, Research, Retirement, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged American History textbooks, Compensation Act of 1816, David B. Mitchell, Missouri Compromise, Slave trading in Georgia (legal and illegal), William Harris Crawford
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Read One for the Gipper
A Review of James H. Broussard, Ronald Reagan: Champion of Conservative America. New York and London: Routledge, 2015. [NOTE: One of the joys—and curses—of being a professional historian is the lure of “revisionism.” That’s when, every generation or so, the … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Books, Cold War, Current Events, Education, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Popular Culture, Prep School, Research, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged "A.P.U.S.History, "The Reagan Revolution, End of the Cold War, Iran-Contra Scandal, James H. Broussard, Modern American History, Ronald Reagan biography
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Life in the Segregated South–Introduction to a A Panel Discussion,1991 (History Lesson Plans, 7)
[NOTE: This is the third in a series of posts tracing the long road by which I finally arrived at one of my favorite courses, “The History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement.” Previously, we have looked at an elective … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Education, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Martin Luther King, Popular Culture, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), "Civil Rights Cases (1883), "Second Reconstruction, C.Vann Woodward, Ku Klux Klan, Myth and Reality in Recent Southern History, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Southern "Redemmers, The Age of Jim Crow, Williams v. Mississippi (1898)
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Retired But Not Shy 