Slender Threads / Global Citizens / Public History
Jim BuieNot mere commentary and opinion. Mini-courses, grounded in the study of global and American history and culture, what ifs, wide travel, and journalistic experience. Seeking a common understanding of humanity, politics, religion, and the arts, with humor.
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1972: An Unforgettable Experience of Betrayal
By Lil Buie
My literal-minded students could not believe the ending of Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery” Their journals indicated their confusion. Nobody would stone a friend to death for drawing the marked numbers in what appea...
4 Illuminating Posts On America's Origins
- Jefferson’s descendants wrestle with a complicated legacy. This ABC News report hit home because I have prominent ancestors from Jefferson’s time who were slaveowners, and I have living African Americans in my DNA. I suspect we, too, are...
America's 250th: Darkness & Light
If you tell a child or even an adult on a major birthday that he/she is inherently bad, bad, evil, Psychology 101 suggests the outcome will not be positive. The same can be said of countries. Nations with negative self-concepts, anger, and...
Descendants of the Highland Clans of Scotland
The Isle of Jura, in the Western Hebrides, seems like a land that time forgot. It’s where my paternal ancestors, the Buies, traveled from to America as part of the Argyll Colony migration to North Carolina in 1739, the first organized migra...
‘Reading Lolita In Tehran,’ Bestselling Book, Becomes Movie
A symbol of women’s rebellion against oppression in the Middle East — a literature class reading and discussing classic books such as ‘Madame Bovary’ and ‘Lolita’ — has been made into a movie, and is now or soon will be rolling out in theat...
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Social studies and college communications instructor. Professional writer for 4+ decades. PR, Marketing Consultant. Author. Traveler to 40+ countries & 40+ states. Lived in Turkey, UAE. Now in Fearrington Village, NC. Saluki (desert dog)-lover.
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