Dr. John R. Legg

@legg.bsky.social

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Historian and college professor. Really interested in Native American history and Digital Public History. Trying to learn trumpet. Photog. www.johnlegg.org

A white screen with black text, there are some URLs in blue.
White page, black text, and red brackets highlight a passage on the book page.
Boxed G.I. Joe action figure labeled “Navajo Code Talker,” depicting a World War II U.S. Marine in uniform with helmet, radio pack, and field gear. The packaging includes illustrations of soldiers in combat and a note that the figure “talks” with phrases in Navajo code and English. To the right of the box is a printed chart titled “The Navajo Code,” showing English words with corresponding Navajo terms, along with a circular “Junior Navajo Code Talker” emblem.
A blue sky, green grass, and historic Jesuit Catholic college building.
A black box with white text, with a few tagged names in blue text, describing a scholarly collaborative project.
A classroom full of students with yellow chairs and brown wood desks. Tan wall with a green chalkboard. A project screen shows a historian talking.
A white paper with colorful lines and shapes that represent travels from Hattiesburg, MS to New Orleans, LA (and other places throughout one week's time). The shapes (see key on the left side) represent the weather I experienced while traveling in MS and LA. The color over the lines represent what day of the week I traveled.
A open computer on a brown desk. The image on the screen two Native men, in artistic colors with a blue sky behind them and mountains.
John Hamm dancing in a club, blue image, with people in the background.
A white page with black writing. A gray box that blurs other articles.
Different shades of brown paper and ripped edges with white boxes and dark text. A photo of a U.S. Marine and various sepia tone photos, a red uniform patch, Purple Heart.
A white wall and floating book shelf. A white book with red and black writing. A collection of dried flora.
A black and white postcard of Okinawa with a World War 2 beach landing scene. In the foreground, vegetation and a group of Marines. In the background, water with landing crafting coming ashore. Notice the x's written in by my grandpa noting various aspects of the landing party.
A historic book with a picture of Frederick Douglass and text.
A group of people sit at round tables. In a room with tan walls and white ceiling tiles.
A smiling man. Pink wall. Long flowing dark hair. Green jacket with white stripe.
Two photos stitched together. Both taken by photographers in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1864 (courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society). Both men pose while leaning on their hands. Both wrapped in blankets. One in Black and White and other colorized.
Giesberg's book cover that's orange in color with a women looking into a mirror. There is red and blue text.
A group of people speaking at a table with black cloth. A tan background. Chairs in foreground with a person in suit coat and another in green long sleeve cardigan.
A white page with black text sharing a Call for Papers.
A guy holding a book. Wearing a grey shirt.
A white page with black text. It is an abstract that describes a dissertation.
A monument to Sitting Bull, a Lakota leader, rests on top of a knoll, surrounded by a barbed wire fence.
A promotional poster for mini photo sessions, with a woman in center frame wearing a tan shirt.
A bride and groom walk up the aisle while guests throw white streamers in the air.
A historian stands on a bridge overlooking the river walk in San Antonio. They are wearing a brown shirt and have green trees and brush in the background.
A guy sitting in a coffeeshop with a white mug
An open computer with a relatively blank word document sits on a marble table in a coffeeshop, with blue/green walls and orange chairs.
A monument with a blue background. The bronze figure holds a sword up in the air.
A man in a green sweater speaks at a podium
A car with a just married sign!
A bride (in white) and a groom (in midnight blue) stands in door.
A large whale hangs from the ceiling in a primarily empty room with tall windows and grey couches. A computer sits open and across from it a scholar working.