Christopher Thrasher

After realizing that only fools work for a living, Christopher Thrasher abandoned his varied career as a butcher, baker, and candle stick maker to study history. Thrasher completed his PhD at Texas Tech University in 2012. Since then he has taught at schools across Texas, New Mexico, Tennessee, Alabama, and Arkansas. Thrasher now makes his home in the great state of North Carolina where he teaches history and political science at a community college. He plans to remain in North Carolina until he gets bored and wanders off in search of good stories and better food.

Christopher is the author of Fight Sports and American Masculinity: Salvation in Violence from 1607 to the Present, Suffering in the Army of Tennessee: A Social History of the Confederate Army of the Heartland from the Battles for Atlanta to the Retreat from Nashville, the co-author of The Murder of Oscar Chitwood in Hot Springs, Arkansas, which he wrote with Guy Lancaster, and Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign. Thrasher is also a contributing author to World History, a textbook produced by the OpenStax Project. Thrasher's shorter works have been published in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Alabama Heritage, the Journal of Southern History, and Up and Coming Weekly. Feel free to contact Christopher at ChristopherThrasherPhD -at- gmail -dot- com.