Clarence L. Mohr | Department of History
 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)