Carol Reardon is an American military historian with a concentration in Civil War and Vietnam eras.
Additionally, Reardon was the Associate Editor on The Papers of Henry Clay Documentary Editing Project.
Reardon is a scholar-in-residence at the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University, and an associate professor.
For instance, women and children's studies can be researched through non-traditional sources, such as schoolbooks, songs, poetry, etc.
Reardon believes that sources that combined nonfiction and fiction are good tools to develop strong historical methodologies.
Reardon uses the Battle of Gettysburg to demonstrate how popular memory of the Civil War changes.
After the Civil War, Gettysburg was primarily targeted to inspire pride in the Union Army and the North.
It was not until the late 1880s that the Battle of Gettysburg began to be expressed in the dramatic unifying moment in United States' history.
Reardon argues that the novel is useful creates a different perspective of actors in the Civil War which allows people to being to study historiography.
Additionally, a fictional novel can promote the public to begin to read non-fiction work on the Battle of Gettysburg.
[11] This television appearance was a discussion panel including the following historians: Troy Hartman, Jeffry Wert, Richard Sommers, and Peter Carmichael.
One issue Reardon explains is that it is not concretely known what was Lee's intention at Gettysburg because there are not a lot of primary sources.
Reardon also discussed how historians believe that Lee was aiming for the seam between two different Union groups.