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Category Archives: Vietnam War
The Vietnam War and American Culture(s), Part 3: “Passionate Historians,” and Selected Sources on the Vietnam War
[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
Posted in American History, Books, Cold War, History, History Teaching, Research, Retirement, Teaching, Uncategorized, Vietnam War, WP Long Read
Tagged American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, education, Historical Reflection, History Teaching, Retirement, Teaching, Teaching History, Vietnam War, wp longread
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A Review of Loren Baritz, Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did (1985); and Christian Appy, American Reckoning: The Vietnam … Continue reading
The King Assassination, Fifty-Two Years On
[NOTE: For those of us of a certain age, the year 1968 was a terrible year; pick your horror, and you could find it there. The Tet Offensive; the decline of public support in the United States for what was … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Dr. Martin Luther King, Historical Reflection, History, History Teaching, Martin Luther King, memoir, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, Vietnam War
Tagged American History and Culture, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Memoir of 1968, Modern American Civil Rights Movement, Retirement Reflection, Teaching History, Vietnam War
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“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”: One Historian’s “Contingent” Career, Part 1
[Note: Since I was first introduced to it, I’ve loved the term contingent to describe event(s) in history that suggest there is no single unstoppable, ideological wave moving humanity in some preordained direction (e.g., democracy, Christianity, Marxism, progress, the Enlightenment). … Continue reading
Posted in "Education Courses", American History, Delaware, Education, family history, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History graduate school, History Teaching, memoir, Newark (Del.) High School Class of 1962, Popular Culture, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, Vietnam War
Tagged American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, education, Emory University, family history, Georgia History, Graduate Education, Historical Reflection, history, History Teaching, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Newark (Delaware), Prep school teaching, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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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