Clarence L. Mohr

Clarence L. Mohr

Department of History

Biography

Clarence Mohr retired from the University of South Alabama on June 1, 2016 and passed away August 2017.

  • B.A., Birmingham-Southern College
  • M.A., University of Georgia
  • Ph.D., University of Georgia

Publications

Books

  • Learning to be Southern: Higher Education and Regional Identity, 1880- 1980 (manuscript in preparation)

  • The South and the Politics of Ideas, 1890-1990 (manuscript in preparation)

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Education.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

  • Tulane: The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945-1980 (co-authored with Joseph E. Gordon).  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

  • On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.  Revised Edition, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

  • The Frederick Douglass Papers Series One, Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Vol. II, 1847-1854.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. Associate Editor.

  • The Frederick Douglass Papers Series One, Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, vol. I, 1841-1846.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. Assistant Editor.

  • Frontier and Plantation in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1773-1830.  Lexington, GA: Historic Oglethorpe County Inc., 2007 [originally 1970]


Selected Quotes

  • Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837)

  • The measure of what is historically important is set by the generation that writes the history, not the one that makes it.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress (1939)

  • What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
    Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man
    You cannot say, or guess, for you
    Know only A heap of broken images

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)