Education

PhD in American History

Marquette University

MA in American History

University of San Diego

BA in History and Political Science

Greenville College

Published Works

• Richard, P. Politics of the Home: Northern New England Women and the Civil War. Home Front Studies/University of Nebraska Press.
• Richard, P. (2018). Lincoln and Congress, by William C. Harris. Journal of Southern History, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/699914.
• Richard, P. (2017, ). "To provide for the comfort of those of our race:" African American Soldiers' Aid Societies and the New England Civil War Effort. Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife.
• Richard, P. (2015). United States Sanitary Commission. Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech, http://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/the-us-sanitary-commission.html.
• Richard, P. Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War by Joseph D. Wheelan (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2015) and Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War by Perry D. Jamieson (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015). Journal of Southern History, http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33921.
• Richard, P. (2012). A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community by Nicole Etcheson. Kentucky Historical Society.
• Richard, P. (2011). Wanted Correspondence: Women's Letters to a Union Soldier, eds., Nancy L/ Rhoades and Lucy E. Bailey. Journal of the Civil War Era.
• Richard, P. (2008). "Union Homefront" and "Family Life". ABC-CLIO.
• Richard, P. (2003). Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort. (pp 335). Fordham University Press.
• Richard, P. (2002). Listen Ladies One and All: Civil War Soldiers Yearn for the Society of Northern Females. Fordham University Press.
• Richard, P. (1999). A Great Crying Evil: Civil War Soldiers' Experiences in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee HIstory: The Magazine of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, 22, 16–22.