George C. Rable is an American historian and author. He is Professor Emeritus at the

University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and largest of the publ ...

. He received the

Lincoln Prize The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, founded by the late Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman in partnership with Gabor Boritt, Director Emeritus of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for Ameri ...

in 2003 for his 2002 book '' Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!''

Education

He received a bachelor of arts degree from

Bluffton College Bluffton University is a private Mennonite university in Bluffton, Ohio. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, with four programs that have earned programmatic accreditation: dietetics, education, music, and social work. The unive ...

in 1972 and a Master of arts degree from

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 n ...

in 1973. He received his doctoral degree from Louisiana State University in 1978.

Career

He is a past president of the Society of Civil War Historians. At the University of Alabama has received the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award and the Blackmon-Moody Award. His 2002 book ''Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!'' received the 2003

, a $50,000 award for excellence in

Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government polici ...

scholarship. The book includes a traditional military analysis of the Civil War while also exploring the social context of the conflict. The book was also awarded the Jefferson Davis Award and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award 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 and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

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. *''A Revolution against Politics: The Confederate States of America''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. *''News from Fredericksburg''. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2000. *''Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!'' Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. *''God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. *''Damn Yankees!: Demonization & Defiance in the Confederate South''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.

References

Living people Lincoln Prize winners University of Alabama faculty 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American military historians Historians of the American Civil War Year of birth missing (living people) American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub