Philip D. Beidler

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Philip Beidler

Philip D. Beidler (d. 2022) was a professor of American literature at the University of Alabama, and the author and editor of books on Alabama literature, the Vietnam War, and other topics. For his work on Vietnam writers, he has been called “one of the founding fathers of Vietnam War studies.”

Phil Beidler’s Featured Articles:

  • Ruby Pickens Tartt: Citizen of the World (Issue 87)
  • Toulmin & Hitchcock, Pioneering Jurists of the Alabama Frontier (Issue 81)
  • Caroline Lee Hentz’s Long Journey (Issue 75)
  • The Lost Battalion of the Ia Drang (Issue 68)
  • The Story of Johnny Mack Brown (Issue 38)
  • Alabama at Gettysburg (Issue 10)