William Palmer

William Palmer is a professor of history at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the author of "Sir Richard Southern Looks Back: A Portrait of the Medievalist as a Young Man," published in the in 1998 and a forthcoming piece on "Professional Historians and Popular History." He is also the author of (1993); (1994); and (2001), as well as over 20 articles in a variety of scholarly journals. He is married and has two sons.

Published in VQR

• Sir Richard Southern Looks Back: A Portrait of the Medievalist as a Young Man, Winter 1998