Dillon Carroll

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Dillon Carroll is a history instructor at Butte College. His book, Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers, will be released in December 2021.

History

Manhood, Madness, and Moonshine

By Dillon Carroll • October 14, 2021

In November 2015, Princeton University economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case published a startling report. Among 45 to 54 year olds with no more than a high school education, they found death rates increased by 134 per 100,000 from 1999 to 2014. These mortality rates, Deaton and Case argued, were not being driven by the… Read more →

History

Civil War Soldiers’ Wet Dreams

By Dillon Carroll • November 1, 2017

The American Civil War is arguably the most written about topic in American history. Yet for all that has been researched and published, sexuality during the Civil War has been difficult to uncover. This is not due to lack of interest; instead, it is the product of the silences surrounding sexuality during the era. As… Read more →