George C. Rable

American historian and author

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. ISBN 0252015975 OCLC 18290214
A Revolution against Politics: The Confederate States of America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. ISBN 0807821446 OCLC 232667648
News from Fredericksburg. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2000. ISBN 0874623332 OCLC 44926859
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 0807826731 OCLC 46952293
God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. ISBN 9780807834268 OCLC 607975631
Damn Yankees!: Demonization & Defiance in the Confederate South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780807160589 OCLC 908373817
Conflict in Command: George B. McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0807179772

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "George C. Rable".
^ "Professor Emeritus George Rable Featured in Documentary".
^ "Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! - George C. Rable - University of North Carolina". Archived from the original on 2009-02-13. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
^ "Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize - The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History". 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Awards and Recognition - American Civil War Museum". Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
^ "Douglas Southall Freeman History Award". 17 November 2010.