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Category Archives: Research
Antebellum Georgia’s Dueling Memoirists, Wilson Lumpkin and George R. Gilmer (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 6)
[NOTE: Two previous posts (here and here) have looked separately at memoirs by antebellum Georgia governors George R. Gilmer and Wilson Lumpkin, focusing on each man’s role in the removal of the Cherokees. This time, I want to consider other aspects of their careers … Continue reading
Governor George R. Gilmer,1829-1831, 1837-1839, and the Cherokees (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 5)
[NOTE: My last post was about Georgia Governor Wilson Lumpkin (1831-35), whose heavy-handed justification for championing removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia makes his autobiography, the cleverly named The Removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia, a real slog for anyone with an … Continue reading
Getting Reacquainted With Georgia Governor Wilson Lumpkin,1831-1835 (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 4)
[NOTE: Almost four decades ago, while looking for useful contemporary descriptions of Georgia politics in the first decade of the nineteenth century, I stumbled upon former Governor Wilson Lumpkin’s ponderous autobiography, The Removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia (2 vols.). I … Continue reading
Twelve-Month Check-Up
[Note: My Civil War History professor in grad school, Dr. Bell I.Wiley, used to try to inspire us to ever-greater heights of scholarly productivity by relating how Allan Nevins, the legendarily prolific Columbia University historian, carried a portable typewriter with … Continue reading
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Well, We’ve All Got to Start Somewhere, I Suppose. . . .
[Note: This was my first blog entry, created in June 2010, but for some reason (an error on my part, I’m sure) it was not actually “published” (as a post) but (evidently) “uploaded” (as a “page”) instead, which, I eventually found … Continue reading
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Joseph Bryan and John Randolph,from Annual Surveys, 1806-1809 (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 3)
[My last post included an example of a potentially useful entry in my “research journal,” which I have kept since beginning my current project back in the mid-1990s. I also got in the habit, after the research had generated so much information … Continue reading
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Research Journal (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 2)
[NOTE: I kept a rather primitive “research journal” during my grad school days, but I did not make much use of it once my traveling was over, so that aspect of my research had almost no effect on the final shape of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cherokee Indians, Georgia History, History, Research, Retirement, Southern History
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Gotta Love Technology, Don’t Ya?
Once again, it’s been a while since my last post, for which, once more, I apologize. I’ve been chugging along, gobbling up antebellum Georgia newspapers, thanks to the wonderful web site “Digital Library of Georgia” (DLG) at “Galileo.” Today I finished … Continue reading
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Old Newspapers, New Computers, and Occasional Frustration (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 1)
I noticed today that it’s been almost three weeks since my first post. I’ve received one comment on that one, from one of my sons–thanks, Jim! Since that first post (and for a month or so prior to it, for … Continue reading
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Hello world!
I’m actually writing this “first post” after publishing my actual “first post” (I’m still trying to catch on to this blogging business), so I don’t want to say a lot here, lest I give away too much of the real first post … Continue reading
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Retired But Not Shy 