Oral History of George Hopkins, interviewed by Patrick "Seph" Duggan, 24 March 2021

Oral History of George Hopkins, interviewed by Patrick "Seph" Duggan, 24 March 2021

College of Charleston professor emeritus George Hopkins was born in Chicago, IL in 1947. This interview focuses on his family background, his anti-war activism, and his academic career. Hopkins’ parents were WWII veterans. The family resided in mostly suburban, white Republican areas. He worked in a steel mill and attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. These life experiences expanded and changed his worldview. In his college years, Hopkins participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement and declared himself a conscientious objector. His activism continued in graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he studied urban and labor history. There, Hopkins and other students supported the work of Fort Bragg’s GIs that opposed the war. In 1976, he moved to Charleston with a one-year contract that became a thirty-two-year teaching career. Hopkins talks about his teaching, his research and writing. Some of the works he focuses on are his dissertation on Miners for Democracy; his essay on Charleston and the metropolitan military complex, included in Martial Metropolis, edited by Roger W. Lotchin, an article about historians’ interpretations of the Vietnam War, and others focused on pop culture.

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Charleston (S. C.)

88 minutes

Patrick "Seph" Duggan

George Hopkins

Charleston, South Carolina via Zoom