Category Archives: Teaching

Retro-Post number 5: “Race–and History–Matter” (April 1, 2013)

Posted on September 3, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Anyone who has followed this blog for a while is surely aware that one of my constant themes is the significance of race in the history of the United States. Here is an early example of that dictum, from … 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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Reflections on Race, Part 1 (Teaching Civil Rights, 15)

Posted on March 2, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  This is another in a series of  posts about a white person who grew up in the South during the Age of Jim Crow and managed to come to terms with the question of race, though usually much later … Continue reading →

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The Yazoo Land Fraud and the Politics of Upcountry Georgia, Part 2

Posted on November 1, 2021 by georgelamplugh

[Note: This is the conclusion of a two-part post about the impact of Georgia’s notorious Yazoo Land Fraud (1795-1796) on a region of the state that was rife with land hunger. For Part 1, go here.] * * * * … Continue reading →

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The Yazoo Land Fraud and the Politics of Upcountry Georgia, Part 1 (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 35)

Posted on October 1, 2021 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  Tignall, Georgia, is about 125 miles east of Atlanta, in Wilkes County, only a few miles from the Savannah River.  In 2002, when I arrived there to deliver a lecture, “downtown” Tignall consisted of a couple of gas stations; … Continue reading →

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Blogging Through the Pandemic: “Retired But Not Shy” at Eleven

Posted on June 1, 2021 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Funny thing:  I’ve been feeling trapped in “writer’s block” for the past year, even recording my supposed plight a couple of times in my journal.  And yet. . .  Looking back at the blog posts I’ve put up since … 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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John Wereat and Georgia, 1775-1799, Part 2 (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 33)

Posted on January 1, 2021 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  This is the second, and final, post about John Wereat, who turned up at almost every crucial event in Georgia’s history between the outbreak of the American Revolution and his death in 1799.  Part 1 followed him from his … Continue reading →

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The Vietnam War and American Culture(s), Part 3: “Passionate Historians,” and Selected Sources on the Vietnam War

Posted on November 2, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  It’s awfully easy to stereotype historians as calm, objective, even bloodless observers of the past, especially when you read a garden-variety history textbook.  But, when one moves to more specialized works, there is room for a historian to bring … 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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