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T. Michael Parrish

The Linden G. Bowers University Professor of American History

Michael Parrish

Fall 2022 Office Hours

By appointment.

Specialties

Nineteenth Century United States History, Southern History, Civil War, Texas History, Public History

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1991

Research Interests

"My research is focused mainly on 19th century U.S. history, especially the South and the Civil War era (particularly slavery and emancipation), as well as civil-military relations and the conduct of warfare in history."

Works in Progress

Slavery, Emancipation, and the Military/Political Conduct of the Civil War

Selected Publications

  • Brothers in Gray (LSU Press)

  • Confederate Imprints (Jenkins Publishing Co.)

  • Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War (LSU Press)

  • Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement (Texas A&M University Press)

  • Littlefield History of the Civil War Era (University of North Carolina Press)

  • Richard Taylor (University of North Carolina Press)

Michael Parrish
michael_parrish@baylor.edu

Tidwell 205.10

254-710-7404

1 Bear Place #97306 Waco, TX 76798

Department of History

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One Bear Place #97306
Waco, TX 76798

(254) 710-2667
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