Professional Historical Duties
For a dozen years, Peoples edited the North Louisiana Historical Association Journal, since renamed North Louisiana History. He published many articles and book reviews during that time. In 1980, he penned for North Louisiana History "Henry Wirz: The Scapegoat of Andersonville", a study of Henry Wirz, a Louisiana physician and Confederate captain hanged for war crimes from his command of the prison of Union soldiers in Andersonville, Georgia.
In 1975, Peoples was elected president of the Louisiana Historical Association. His department chairman, William Y. Thompson, was the association president in 1980. Another colleague, John D. Winters, headed the group in 1968.
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