Category Archives: Teaching

“Who was that Masked Man?”: Building a Classroom Persona (Be True to Your School, 4)

Posted on October 15, 2017 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: In a previous post in this series, I saluted the two best teachers I’ve ever had, Miss Gertrude Weaver (high school) and Professor James Rabun (graduate school). In addition to deep knowledge of history and loads of energy and … Continue reading →

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The Ol’ History Curriculum Merry-go-Round Comes ‘Round Again (History Lesson Plans, 12)

Posted on September 15, 2017 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: In a two-part series in The American Historian, David Arnold reviews a recent movement aimed at reforming the way history is taught in colleges and universities. An eighteen-year veteran of teaching history in a community college, Professor Arnold’s average … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in Age of Jim Crow, American History, Books, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Retirement, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read | Tagged Age of Jim Crow, Hamilton {Georgia), Harris County (Georgia), Lynching, Southern History | 6 Comments

A Doomed Fight for Justice in the Jim Crow South (Teaching Civil Rights, 7)

Posted on February 1, 2017 by georgelamplugh

A Review of Joseph Madison Beck, My Father & Atticus Finch: A Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. As the title suggests, this book begins with the notion that the story 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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The Long Arm of Jim Crow Justice (Teaching Civil Rights, 4)

Posted on November 1, 2016 by georgelamplugh

A Review of Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014. [NOTE: As I’ve mentioned before, when I took over a course on the Modern American Civil Rights Movement a number of … 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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Whose Ox is Being Gore(d)? The Essays of Gore Vidal

Posted on September 15, 2016 by georgelamplugh

A Review of Gore Vidal, United States: Essays 1952-1992 (New York: Broadway Books, 1993) Definition–“essay”: “a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretive.” (Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the … Continue reading →

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