T. Michael Parrish

T. Michael Parrish is Linden G. Bowers Professor of American History at Baylor University where he enjoys teaching an undergraduate course on Texas history every semester as well as graduate seminars on the Civil War and Reconstruction, public history, and religion and war in U.S. history. Early in his career, he worked in the rare book and publishing business, and as a research archivist at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum. He is author of Brothers in Gray: The Civil War Letters of the Pierson Family (1997) and the forthcoming P. G. T. Beauregard: The Civil War and Southern Power, among other books, and also serves as editor or coeditor for three Civil War book series.

Lecture topics:

• Texas and Texans in the Civil War
• Limited War, Limited Peace: The Civil War and Reconstruction
• Religion and War in U.S. History

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