George C. Rable
Template:Short description George C. Rable is an American historian and author. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama.[1] He received the Lincoln Prize in 2003 for his 2002 book Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
Education
Rable received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bluffton College in 1972 and a Master of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1973. He received his doctoral degree from LSU in 1978.[1]
Career
Rable is a past president of the Society of Civil War Historians. At the University of Alabama he received the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award and the Blackmon-Moody Award.
His 2002 book Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! received the 2003 Lincoln Prize, a $50,000 award for excellence in Civil War scholarship.[2] The book includes a traditional military analysis of the Civil War while also exploring the social context of the conflict.[3][4] The book was also awarded the Jefferson Davis Award[5] and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award[6] and the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award in American Military History.
His book God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (2010) won the Jefferson Davis Award[5] and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.[1]
Publications
- But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
- Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link
- A Revolution against Politics: The Confederate States of America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link
- News from Fredericksburg. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2000. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link
- Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link
- God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link
- Damn Yankees!: Demonization & Defiance in the Confederate South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Template:ISBN Template:Catalog lookup link
- Conflict in Command: George B. McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023. Template:Isbn
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