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Category Archives: prep school teaching with a PhD
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
[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
The Year of Ben (2019-2020); and a decade of “Retired But Not Shy” (2010-2020)
[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
“But You Get What You Need”: One Historian’s “Contingent” Career, Part 2
[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
Posted in "Education Courses", American History, Books, Education, Elective History Course for 9th and 10th Graders, family history, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History graduate school, History Teaching, memoir, Popular Culture, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Retirement, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Sun Belt, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, education, Emory University, family history, Georgia History, Graduate Education, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching History, WP Longform
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“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”: One Historian’s “Contingent” Career, Part 1
[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
Posted in "Education Courses", American History, Delaware, Education, family history, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History graduate school, History Teaching, memoir, Newark (Del.) High School Class of 1962, Popular Culture, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, Vietnam War
Tagged American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, education, Emory University, family history, Georgia History, Graduate Education, Historical Reflection, history, History Teaching, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Newark (Delaware), Prep school teaching, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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A Post for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2019
[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
The Second Reconstruction: The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1940s-1968, Part 2 (Teaching Civil Rights, 12)
[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
Posted in "The Race Beat", Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, Dr. Martin Luther King, Education, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Martin Luther King, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Retirement, Southern History, Sun Belt, Taylor Branch, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, Civil Rights Movement, education, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Prep school teaching, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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The Age of Jim Crow (Teaching Civil Rights, 11)
[NOTE: In previous posts (here and here), we’ve seen how southern whites, helped by the growing weariness of the rest of the nation with what they called the post-Civil War “Negro Problem,” regained control of their state governments by 1877 … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Southern History, Teaching, The "Great Migration", The Blues, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, Blues, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Southern History, Teaching History, The Great Migration
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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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