Peter S. Carmichael

Peter S. Carmichael is Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University and has published a number of books, most recently a study of Southern college students during the Civil War era entitled The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (2005). He is currently researching the experience and wartime representation of Confederate slaves, and how the popular idea of loyal African American defending the South animates current cultural wars over "Southern heritage."

Lecture topics:

• Intellectual Life of the Old South
• The Coming of the Civil War
• Common Civil War Soldiers
• Slavery in the Confederacy
• Civil War Generalship
• Public History

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