CSPAN3 The Civil War August 6, 2016
Hosted by the Gettysburg College and civil war institute. David currently serves as a lecturer in American History at the university of edinburgh in scotland. He teaches a wide range of courses in the u. S. South. After beginning his career as a high school teacher, in florida, he earned his phd at the university of North Carolina, chapel hill. He taught at North Carolina State University and there he published his first book, a superb one. Moments of despair, suicide, divorce and debt in civil war era North Carolina. It explores the shifting sentiments of black and white towards suicide, debt...