Peter S Carmichael: 3 books
The War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the...
The Last Generation
Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter S. Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. He finds...
"Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail": Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail"
Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee
by Peter S. Carmichael
Why do we argue—and argue—so much about Robert E. Lee?
"While northerners might appear comparatively apathetic about the memory of the Union cause, white southerners have been tenacious in searching for moral clarity in the past."