Author Archives: Dr. Andrew Joseph Pegoda

One of the biggest misconceptions we have here in the United States is that the practice of enslaving (Black) individuals ended with the Civil War. (In fact, it continued until the WWII era in the form of convict leasing, also known as neo-slavery) Additionally, people often don’t realize that the United States was far fromContinue reading “48 enslaved individuals work for me. How many work for you?”

The following is a review sheet with answers exactly as sent to the parents of 5th grade students by the social studies teacher at a school near where I live. My analysis and thoughts follow the three centered diamond icons. Be sure to see the last paragraph for my full analysis.  Unit 9 Test ReviewContinue reading “Case Study: History, Myth, and Public Schools”

Professional, university-trained historians are brand new in the scope of the planet’s history. Using the analogy of the entire Earth’s history in a day where humans arrive at 11:58:43 p.m., modern history would arrive at something like 11:59:59 p.m. For most of history, conceptions of history (see, we need different words in the English languageContinue reading “The Nature of History and the History of History”

The Rivers See how it lifts You away, Triumphantly soaring, Rolling From afar. See how it mirrors Your morning sky, Magically knowing, Singing From above. See how it guides Your day, Secretly leaning, Training From around. See how it prophesizes Your way, Gently hoping, Providing From afar. See how it knows Their way, Gently weeping,Continue reading “Creative Writing: The Rivers”

We Shall Have Your Future! A Riddle   We are…   The, gently–leisurely globe.  Uncrowned Monarch.   Annals repeating of Ancient times. Changing, Ceasing, … Creating History.   The World is, corrupting around Our necessity, too. Fantastically fond of fashioning fraudulency. Fraudulently full of fantastic fabrications; although not Art.  With Our restraint, riches,…supremacy.   ConsideringContinue reading “Creating Writing: We Shall Have Your Future!: A Riddle”

Historians of the Modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s naturally tend to focus on the movement’s activism and the variety of forms it took. White segregationists receive much less attention, and when they are covered, they sometimes become monolithic historical actors. Although somewhat natural perhaps because history does tend to focusContinue reading ““Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement” – Book Review Series #2”

Over the past several days various places on the Internet, places across political and educational spectrums, have been expressing outrage over the following two passages in Jane Sutcliffe’s biography of Barack Obama for children.  Indeed, I was concerned when I saw these passages. I read this news article and these reviews on Amazon. All of these assert thatContinue reading “Jane Sutcliffe, A Barack Obama Biography, and Looking at the Full Picture”

I don’t have television (by choice). But last night I knew something was going on when so many people kept posting on Twitter and romacebook talking about some big, questionable, weird event. This morning I leaned that the controversy related to Katy Perry’s performance at the 2013 American Music Awards. Perry, whose career took offContinue reading “Katy Perry and Neo-Blackface”