Category Archives: Retirement

Twelve-Month Check-Up

Posted on June 1, 2011 by georgelamplugh

[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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Book Notes: The “Great Migration”; Gore Vidal’s “Lincoln”

Posted on March 11, 2011 by georgelamplugh

Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America(1991) Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010)      A while ago, I posted a review of two works … Continue reading →

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Well, We’ve All Got to Start Somewhere, I Suppose. . . .

Posted on February 1, 2011 by georgelamplugh

[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)

Posted on December 18, 2010 by georgelamplugh

[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)

Posted on December 18, 2010 by georgelamplugh

[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 →

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Two Books I Wish I’d Read While I Was Still Teaching Civil Rights (Teaching Civil Rights, 1)

Posted on September 20, 2010 by georgelamplugh

A Review of: Peniel E. Joseph, Dark Days, Bright Nights:  From Black Power to Barack Obama.  New York:  Basic Books, 2010. Glenn Browder, with Artemesia Stanberry, Stealth Reconstruction:  An Untold Story of Racial Politics in Recent Southern History.  Montgomery, Ala.:  NewSouth … Continue reading →

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Gotta Love Technology, Don’t Ya?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by georgelamplugh

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)

Posted on July 5, 2010 by georgelamplugh

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!

Posted on June 14, 2010 by georgelamplugh

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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