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Category Archives: Vietnam War
They don’t call me “Dr. Excitement” for nothin’, you know! (Be True to Your School, 5)
[Note: In a previous post in this series, I discussed how certain personal eccentricities helped me construct a “classroom persona,” one “Dr.,” beard, polyester suit, and awful pun at a time. In this entry, I’d like to offer a few … Continue reading
Posted in "The Race Beat", Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Cold War, Dr. Martin Luther King, Elias Boudinot, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Work, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, The Blues, Uncategorized, Vietnam War
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, Blues, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, Historical Reflection, History Curriculum, History Teaching, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Interdisciplinary Work, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Southern History
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Understanding Recent American History–“Nixonland,” or “The Age of Reagan”?
[NOTE: Historical revisionism occurs when, every generation or so, the scholarly consensus about important events or individuals begins to shift. Revisionism is not a concept that appeals to neophyte historians, or to “average Americans” trying to understand the past, many … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Books, Cold War, Dr. Martin Luther King, Historical Reflection, History, Martin Luther King, Research, Retirement, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Teaching, Uncategorized, Vietnam War
Tagged " James H. Broussard "Ronald Reagan: Champion of Conservative America", historical revisionism, recent American history, Rick Perlstein "Nixonland", Sean Wilentz "The Age of Reagan, teaching American history
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My Vietnam War–and Welcome to It
I’ve got a long shelf of books about my generation’s war, but none of them presents it as I experienced it. I served in the Army from 1966 to 1968, but I never left the U.S., so my war was very different from the one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cold War, Historical Reflection, History, Research, Teaching, Uncategorized, Vietnam War, WP Long Read
Tagged "Short", Aberdeen Proving Ground, Autobiography, Cold War, Ft. Lee, Homefront, James H. Krefft, Vietnam War
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Reading the Civil War: “Patriotic Gore”–And More
In the Fall of 1969, I took a grad school course on the Civil War. During a discussion of historiography, someone asked our professor his opinion of Shelby Foote’s history of the conflict, the first two volumes of which were then in … Continue reading
Past Personal: Teaching the Vietnam War as History
[Note: This piece originated as a talk to a group of history teachers; it explains the genesis of the series, already posted here, “Growing Up With Vietnam.” (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4] When I began my prep school teaching career … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Cold War, Current Events, History, Research, Retirement, Teaching, Vietnam War
Tagged current-events, history, politics, WP Longform
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Editorial, “On Dixie Station”
[NOTE: The following editorial comes from the History Department newsletter in April 2000. Like the previous post, this one reflects on teaching about–and remembering–the War in Vietnam.] * * * * * I spent a recent Saturday at a seminar, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Southern (Georgia) History, Teaching, Vietnam War
Tagged Southern History, Teaching History, Vietnam
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“Springtime and Vietnam”
[NOTE: For a number of years, I edited the History Department newsletter at my school. Each issue opened with an editorial. Below is one from March 2000, about ten years after I had begun delivering annually my “Growing Up With Vietnam” … Continue reading
Posted in History, Southern (Georgia) History, Teaching, Vietnam War
Tagged Teaching History, Vietnam War
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Paying the Cost to be the Boss, with apologies to B.B. King (Growing Up With Vietnam, IV)
[This concluding segment of the lecture was the part that, unfortunately in my view, I found I needed to update virtually every year, in order to fit more recent adventures in American foreign policy into the context created by the autobiographical portion … Continue reading
Posted in History, Teaching, Vietnam War
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