Category Archives: prep school teaching with a PhD

Taking on Shakespeare’s Plays as a “Pandemic Project”

Posted on June 1, 2022 by georgelamplugh

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.  New York:  Barnes & Noble, 1994. (Based on Arthur Henry Bullen’s Stratford Town Edition, Shakespeare Head Press, 1904.)             [Note:  When I retired in May 2010, after teaching for thirty-seven years at The Westminster … Continue reading →

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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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Growing Up White in the Segregated South: A View from North Carolina (Teaching Civil Rights, 14)

Posted on March 1, 2021 by georgelamplugh

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. [Note: Regular readers of this blog will remember that near the end of my … Continue reading →

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The Vietnam War and American Culture(s), Part 2

Posted on October 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  This is the second installment of a three-part series examining the impact of the Vietnam War on the United States, by historians writing a generation apart: Loren Baritz, Backfire:  A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and … Continue reading →

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[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 →

Posted on August 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh | 5 Comments

The Year of Ben (2019-2020); and a decade of “Retired But Not Shy” (2010-2020)

Posted on June 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  Americans tend to focus on anniversaries that end in “0.”  For example, married couples usually regard their tenth, twentieth, thirtieth, etc., anniversaries as more important than the others.  And I guess that’s true of the few bloggers who managed … Continue reading →

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“But You Get What You Need”: One Historian’s “Contingent” Career, Part 2

Posted on April 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[Note: When I began teaching at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta in the autumn of 1973, I didn’t anticipate staying for the long term. Surely something better (i.e., a college teaching post) would come along? But no:  instead, I found … 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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A Post for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2019

Posted on January 17, 2019 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  Last year at this time, I published a post for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday that focused on my contribution to an assembly commemorating King’s career and significance given at my school on January 16, 1987.  This post … Continue reading →

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The Second Reconstruction: The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1940s-1968, Part 2 (Teaching Civil Rights, 12)

Posted on January 2, 2019 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  This is the concluding post in my treatment of the Modern American Civil Rights Movement from World War II through the assassination of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968.  For part 1, go here.  A list … Continue reading →

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