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Tag Archives: American History and Culture
The Second Reconstruction: The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1940s-1968, Part 2 (Teaching Civil Rights, 12)
[NOTE: This is the concluding post in my treatment of the Modern American Civil Rights Movement from World War II through the assassination of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. For part 1, go here. A list … Continue reading
Posted in "The Race Beat", Age of Jim Crow, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, Dr. Martin Luther King, Education, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Martin Luther King, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Retirement, Southern History, Sun Belt, Taylor Branch, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, Civil Rights Movement, education, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Prep school teaching, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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The “Second Reconstruction”: The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1940s-1968, Part 1 (Teaching Civil Rights, 12)
[NOTE: One of the most significant developments in American history since the end of World War II has been the modern civil rights movement, which noted historian C. Vann Woodward termed “the Second Reconstruction.” Between the 1940s and 1968, the … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Education, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Martin Luther King, Popular Culture, Research, Retirement, Southern History, Sun Belt, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, Civil Rights Movement, education, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Prep school teaching, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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“My people, yes!”
A Review of: Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Old History of Class in America. New York: Penguin Books, 2016. [NOTE: Like J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy (2016), Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, had … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Civil Rights Movement, Current Events, Historical Reflection, History, Interdisciplinary Work, Popular Culture, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Reflection, history, Interdisciplinary Work, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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The Age of Jim Crow (Teaching Civil Rights, 11)
[NOTE: In previous posts (here and here), we’ve seen how southern whites, helped by the growing weariness of the rest of the nation with the post-Civil War “Negro Problem,” regained control of their state governments by 1877 and began, about … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Research, Southern History, Teaching, The "Great Migration", The Blues, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, Blues, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Southern History, Teaching History, The Great Migration
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The Road to Jim Crow, 1875-1900, Part 2 (Teaching Civil Rights, 10)
[Note: In the previous post in this series, we looked at the short-term consequences of the acceptance, by white southerners, and many northerners, of the so-called “New South Creed,” which offered a prettified picture of the “Old South” and a … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Historical Reflection, History, Research, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Age of Jim Crow, American History, American History and Culture, Civil Rights Movement, education, Historical Reflection, history, History Curriculum, History Teaching, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Prep school teaching, Southern History, Teaching History, The Blues, The Great Migration, WP Longform
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“The Gathering”: Leadership Retreat Devotional, 1999 (Be True to Your School, 6)
[NOTE: During the 1999-2000 school year, I served as Interim Chair of the History Department at Atlanta’s Finest Prep School (AFPS). This assignment meant, among other things, that I was once again “in the administrative loop,” whether I wished to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Current Events, Education, Historical Reflection, History Teaching, Interdisciplinary Work, memoir, Popular Culture, Prep School, prep school teaching with a PhD, Retirement, Sun Belt, Teaching, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, education, Historical Reflection, History Teaching Career Retrospective, Interdisciplinary Work, Prep school teaching, Prep school teaching with a PhD, Religion, Retirement, Teaching, Teaching History
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The New South: Myth and Reality (Teaching Civil Rights, 9)
[NOTE: This is the first of several posts that will reveal my approach to “teaching Civil Rights” to a class of high school juniors and seniors. I did not do a lot of lecturing in this course, but what I … Continue reading
Posted in Age of Jim Crow, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Research, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, myth and reality, New South, New South Creed, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History
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The Story Behind “A Scrappy Fourth of July” (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 29)
[Note: Last time, I regaled you with “Confessions of a Historical Pack Rat,” a light-hearted look at where I’ve gotten some of the material for posts at “Retired But Not Shy” (hereafter RBNS) over its first eight years. As it … Continue reading
Posted in 4th of July, American "republicanism", American History, American Revolution, Education, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Popular Culture, Research, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged American History, American History and Culture, American Popular Culture, education, Georgia and the American Revolution, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History Curriculum, History Teaching, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching History
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Draining the Creeks (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 28)
A Review of William W. Winn, The Triumph of the Ecunnau-Nuxulgee: Land Speculators, George M. Troup, State Rights, and the Removal of the Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama, 1825-38. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2015. [Note: As an historian … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Books, Creek Indians, Education, George M. Troup, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, History, History Teaching, Research, Southern (Georgia) History, Southern History, Teaching, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged American History, American History and Culture, George M. Troup, Georgia History, Historical Reflection, history, History Teaching, Retirement, Southern History, Teaching, Teaching History, William McIntosh, WP Longform
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