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Hell & Health: What You Should Know in Doing Family History
Hell & Health: What You Should Know in Doing Family History
by Michael B Dougan; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arkansas State University
“Hell and Health” will focus on medical issues in Arkansas history, starting from before the Civil War, including the death rates and causes during the War, and then the aftermath, looking especially at the great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and how it relates to medical issues today. All of this will be tied to possible genealogical issues relating to family research.
Michael B. Dougan holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arkansas State University. He grew up in Neosho, Missouri, and earned his bachelor’s degree from what was then Southwest Missouri State College. He then attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he began his studies in Arkansas history, first writing about the Little Rock press during the Civil War for his master’s degree and then surveying the state for his doctorate. Confederate Arkansas: The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime was published in 1976.
He joined the faculty of Arkansas State University in 1970 and retired in 2003 during which time he wrote a comprehensive history of the state, Arkansas Odyssey: The Saga of Arkansas from Prehistoric Times to Present, published in 1994. In 2003 he authored Community Diaries; Arkansas Newspapering, 1819-2002. He has authored numerous entries for the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, presented Professional Development presentations for public school teachers, and done Continuing Legal Education for the Arkansas Bar Association. He lives in the 1895 National Register, J.V. Bell House in Jonesboro.
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