T. Michael Parrish

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1991. Areas of Interest: Nineteenth Century United States History, Southern History, Civil War, Texas History, Public History Works in Progress: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Military/Political Conduct of the Civil War. Selected Publications: Richard Taylor (University of North Carolina Press), Brothers in Gray (LSU Press), Confederate Imprints (Jenkins Publishing Co.). Littlefield History of the Civil War Era (UNC Press), Conflicting Worlds: New Demensions of the American Civil War (LSU Press). On My 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."

Richard Taylor

May 31, 2014

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/585825.Richard_Taylor Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie by T. Michael Parrish Using widely scattered and previously…

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