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Interviewee: Dr. Leann Caldwell, Female, Caucasian, Director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History and Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia Interviewer: Dr Interviewee: Dr. LeAnn Caldwell, female, Caucasian, Director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History and Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia Interviewer: Dr. Niki Christodoulou, Augusta University ******************** Dr. Christodoulou: Dr. Caldwell, tell me a little bit about who you are. Dr. LeAnn Caldwell: Well, I’m LeAnn Caldwell, I have been a professor at this university since 1991, with the exception of six years when I chaired the history and geography department at Georgia College and State University which is the public liberal arts university of the state and then I came back here in 2008 and had been here since running the center for Georgia history, and since our merger um, also serving as the university historian. Prior to that in the 1980’s I taught at Paine College for eleven years, which is a historically Black college here in Augusta that was found in the 1880’s in the post-Civil War period by bi-racial Methodist churches, southerners, which is interesting in itself, because most of the African American colleges had been founded by Northerners, but these were Black and White Methodist who came together to found Paine and that was a wonderful teaching experience as well. So, I’ve been in education basically my entire adult life. Um, I got a master’s and doctorate degree in history at the University of Georgia and so that’s the content area that I have focused in and I have increasingly focused my research down to state and local history. I have become one of those people that get called on by lay people in the community who are not historical scholars, but need help learning about our past. So, I enjoy teaching at many different venues and many different level, I’ve certainly enjoyed the years I was in a full-time faculty, professor working with college students and my students seemed to enjoy the classes. I’ve had students tell me since that I really had an effect on them, but I’ve also enjoyed over the years doing workshops for public school teachers. I worked with Teaching American History Grants here in Richmond County for a number of years and in other counties, in areas near Atlanta, down in Savannah, and those were programs that are content based working with teachers throughout the public school system to bring to them the latest research that’s going on in the field because while they’re concerned with working with students every single day of course those of us who are in universities are also doing research and going to conferences to hear about other people’s research and this is a way of sharing those new findings and new research with those who are out in the field teaching. So, I’ve enjoyed that as well and on the local level I’ve worked with various organizations here like, the Leadership Augusta program, I do an entire day on history for that group every year and they also conduct what’s called an executive forum, which is a shortened program for people who are CEO’s new to the area and need some information and background about the area and I do a half day of history for that group as well. Um, because people find that once they have a sense of a place’s past then they can understand how things are, why they are the way they are and so I enjoy that kind of outreach into the community. In fact, my research center here on campus is the Center for the study of Georgia History was founded by a very prolific scholar, Dr. Edward Cashin who wrote well over twenty books on history of this area and of the South and he founded the Center for Georgia History here because he wanted to do research and outreach, specifically about the state of Georgia and it’s past and so after his death I came back from Milledgeville to take this position to continue that work and basically that’s what we do here. We do outreach and research and so I’ve got several projects going on right now delving into various aspects of the history of this area which I hope to get finished and get published so there will be more information out there about how we came to be what we are. (5:08) Dr. Christodoulou: What are some of the things that have happened or are happening in the area that are of historical and educational importance? And how do your efforts contribute to the education of people? Dr. LeAnn Caldwell: Well, one of the things that I think is important that I’m involved in now is doing a lot of research on the African American story in this area. We have a rich African American history that goes back to the 1700’s but particularly interesting as the African American community came out of the civil war and had to deal with Jim Crow, had to deal with education and how to get an education, what kind of education African Americans would have. As I said Pain College was founded here so was Haines Institute, which offered education up to the high school level, Walker Baptist Institute, so there was this thirst for education in the African American community. In fact, when the public school system was founded in Augusta which and in Georgia which was – in much of the South was much later than in the North, it was post-Civil War here, it was 1870. And so, the South was behind and in many ways still lingers behind, there was an ethos of the significance of education in the Northern states that um, pertained to the elite of the South but not necessarily to other people including poorer Whites as well as all African Americans who were legally forbidden to have literacy, although some did, but the percentage was small coming out of the Civil War and so there’s this thirst for education and the school system was founded to deal with that. When our school system was started, it was started as a bi-racial school system although school weren’t integrated from the very beginning. So, there’s an important story I think to tell there all the way up through the Jim Crow era. The Civil Rights Movement here and in the state of Georgia was very important with Dr. King being centered in Georgia and coming to Augusta at a couple of points, but we had some leaders in our own community. And then what has happened post- civil rights and some of the issues the African American community and the board of education are still dealing with as schools seem to at least in some areas resegregate and so I think those are important issues we need to continue to try to address and I don’t think we can understand them if we don’t understand the background to them, how we got to this point and what some of the problems are in the school system. So, I think those are important, I think unfortunately as the economy has gone through its ups and downs education has not kept pace with the funding that it needs and so a lot of the enhancement that we’ve done in the past especially for the public school teachers is not there anymore, we’re not doing the same kind of teaching workshops to bring people up to date on the content that they teach, because the funding for it hasn’t been there and the teacher workdays for it haven’t been there. I mean there were years when the days that people we supposed to be in teacher workshops they were actually taking furloughs to balance the budget. Now we’ve seem to have gotten past some of that but not totally because we haven’t had a lot of content workshops recently. The other thing is there was a real curtailment for a while in field trips for students. So we have so many wonderful historic places here in Augusta and the surrounding area that people can go to that are beneficial to the students and the, a lot of the historic sites are willing to match what they do with students when they get there with the standards that the state has set up and is going to test them on, but a lot of the funding for that kind of thing had been curtailed. There does seem to be a little bit of an upswing in that, I know I’m on the board of historic Augusta and recently the Woodrow Wilson house has seen a couple of- a fairly large groups of students from the magnet schools, but we would certainly like to reach out to school beyond just those magnet schools and work with students in some of those other schools. And of course there are places like The Augusta Museum of History, The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, The Morris Museum of Art all of these places are such wonderful educational enhancements for our students and we’d love to see them utilized even more than they are. (10:49) Dr. Christodoulou: Tell me a little bit more about your personal experience. You mentioned that you worked with students in the past through different programs. Is there any content that you noticed that excited the students or they were curious to learn more about? Dr. LeAnn Caldwell: Well, students come to us sometimes from high schools where they have, I think not, not understood that history is about understanding cause and effect: this happens which then has these outcomes and those tend to cause this.
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