Tag Archives: American History and Culture

“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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A Post for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2016

Posted on January 16, 2016 by georgelamplugh

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., has long been one of my personal heroes, beginning when I was a youngster growing up in an industrial suburb of Baltimore, Maryland.  Later, after I decided that I wanted to teach History, I … Continue reading →

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The “Great Migration”: Two Views (Teaching Civil Rights, 2)

Posted on January 1, 2016 by georgelamplugh

A Review of: Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991); and Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010) [Note:  I’ve been thinking a lot … Continue reading →

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Secondary School Students and The Changing Face of the South (History Lesson Plans, 5)

Posted on December 15, 2014 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE: One of the most popular posts at this blog is “Teaching History Backwards,” probably more for the provocative title than for the course it describes, The History of the Modern American Civil Rights Movement.  And yet, I believe that … Continue reading →

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The Voice of the Urban Blues–Bobby “Blue” Bland,1930-2013 (Blues Stories, 13)

Posted on February 1, 2014 by georgelamplugh

A Review of Charles Farley, Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. Throughout his long career, Bobby Bland was introduced as “the world’s greatest blues singer,” and, according to biographer Charles Farley, this was … Continue reading →

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