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A Doomed Fight for Justice in the Jim Crow South (Teaching Civil Rights, 7)
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
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, American History, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, Enterprise Alabama, Foster Beck, Harper Lee, Interdisciplinary Work, Joseph Madison Beck, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Unflattering Views of the Georgia Legislature, 2017 and 1817
[Note: Four years ago, just in time for the adjournment of the Georgia legislature, I came across a lovely description of the state’s solons from 1817. Re-reading that post today, as the 2017 session of the legislature convenes, I realized that … Continue reading
A Post for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2017
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
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Current Events, Dr. Martin Luther King, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Popular Culture, Prep School, Research, Retirement, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Civil Rights Movement, Emory University, King Holiday, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., University of Delaware
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“Massive Resistance” at Ground Level: The Case of Prince Edward County, Virginia (Teaching Civil Rights, 5)
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
Posted in "The Race Beat", Age of Jim Crow, American History, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Education, Elective History Course for 9th and 10th Graders, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Martin Luther King, Popular Culture, Prep School, Prince Edward County Virginia, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged "Brown" decision, "segregation academices", "Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County", integration of public schools, Kristen Green, teaching the Modern American Civil Rights Movement
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Willie “61” Blackwell, A Blues Performer Without a Wikipedia Entry, 1905-c.1972 (Blues Stories, 23)
[NOTE: I suppose “obscurity” is a relative concept. Before the modern era, one would actually have had to “research” a person in various “hard copy” sources, before lamenting his or her “obscurity.” In more recent years, however, with the Internet in general, … Continue reading
The Long Arm of Jim Crow Justice (Teaching Civil Rights, 4)
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
Teaching in a Prep School with a PhD., 3: Sealing the Deal, 1972-1973
[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
Posted in Education, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History graduate school, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Retirement, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged education, Graduate Education, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Prep school teaching, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Teaching, Teaching History
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A “Founding Mother” on Political Partisanship—Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, August 18, 1804
[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
Posted in American "republicanism", American History, American Revolution, Books, Current Events, Education, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Retirement, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged " "common good, " Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, " Thomas Jefferson, "republicanism, Abigail Adams, John Adams, Lester J. Cappon
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Whose Ox is Being Gore(d)? The Essays of Gore Vidal
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
“Teaching 21st-Century Students”: A Reflection (Be True to Your School, 3)
[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
Posted in Education, Elective History Course for 9th and 10th Graders, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Retirement, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged "Teaching 21st-Century Students", Advanced Placement History, curriculum revision, education, Graduate Education, Historical Reflection, History Curriculum, Teaching, Teaching History, World History
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Retired But Not Shy 