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"Shook over Hell": Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War
Academic journal article from Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA), Vol. 22, No. 3
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"Shook over Hell": Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War. Eric T. Dean, Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
At a time when political, public, and popular debate have become preoccupied with trauma and, particularly, with the intersection of public events and private experience, a revisionist historical work like Eric Dean's Shook over Hell is more than timely. With meticulous attention to his primary sources (which include the committal records of a sample of sorely tried Indiana Civil War veterans), Dean tests popular wisdom about the figure of the traumatized Vietnam "vet."
Dean's argument is challenging in a whole set of ways. Some of these …
