Category Archives: Prep School

Anatomy of a Lynching (Teaching Civil Rights, 6 )

Posted on April 1, 2017 by georgelamplugh

A Review of: Karen Branan.  The Family Tree:  A Lynching in Georgia, A Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth.  New York and other cities:  Atria Books, 2016. [NOTE:  Here we are again, at yet another review of … Continue reading →

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A Post for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2017

Posted on January 3, 2017 by georgelamplugh

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has long been one of my  heroes, beginning when I was a youngster growing up in an industrial suburb of Baltimore in the 1950s.  In the 1960s, when I decided that I wanted to teach … Continue reading →

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“Massive Resistance” at Ground Level: The Case of Prince Edward County, Virginia (Teaching Civil Rights, 5)

Posted on December 1, 2016 by georgelamplugh

A Review of Kristen Green, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle (Harper, 2015) [NOTE:  One of the great joys of my last few years in the classroom was the … Continue reading →

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Teaching in a Prep School with a PhD., 3:  Sealing the Deal, 1972-1973

Posted on October 16, 2016 by georgelamplugh

[I have written before about my efforts to help My Old Graduate School (MOGS) show its graduate students that they could do more with a History PhD. than they might think. I tried to convince my depressingly eager audience that their post-PhD. refuge … Continue reading →

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A “Founding Mother” on Political Partisanship—Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, August 18, 1804

Posted on October 1, 2016 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  As a rule, I do not post at this blog about current American politics (for an exception, go here).  I usually limit that sort of thing to my Facebook timeline, when I “say something” about an article that I’m … Continue reading →

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“Teaching 21st-Century Students”: A Reflection (Be True to Your School, 3)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  I’ve spent my career studying, teaching, and reflecting on History, and, whenever those above me in the administrative food chain asked my opinion on some academic topic, I was not behindhand in responding. Here’s an example:  as a follow-up to our opening faculty … Continue reading →

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“The Flags, Daddy, the Flags!”: “Retired But Not Shy” at Six

Posted on June 1, 2016 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  I launched Retired But Not Shy: Doing History After Leaving the Classroom a couple of weeks following my retirement, in May 2010, from nearly four decades teaching History in an Atlanta prep school.  I really didn’t know what I was doing, but, as the … Continue reading →

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Growing Up White in the Jim Crow South: Two Perspectives from Georgia (Teaching Civil Rights, 3)

Posted on March 1, 2016 by georgelamplugh

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 →

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Historical Problem: Who Was “A Citizen”? (Georgia,1783-1788)–Part 1: Introduction

Posted on January 15, 2016 by georgelamplugh

  One thing that made historical research bearable, even fun for me at times,  was how I ran into interesting characters during my studies in Georgia history, people about whom I wished to learn more; began storing references to their activities; and, … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Three Books

Posted on September 15, 2015 by georgelamplugh

[Note: At this point in my career, I have published three books, two of which came out this summer.  I figured that at least a few of my faithful readers might be interested in where the ideas for those volumes came from.] * * … Continue reading →

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