George C. Rable Explained

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.
• 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.
• Conflict in Command: George B. McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.

External links

Appearances on C-SPAN

Notes and References

1. Web site: George C. Rable.
2. Web site: Professor Emeritus George Rable Featured in Documentary.
3. Web site: Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! - George C. Rable - University of North Carolina. 2008-07-07. 2009-02-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20090213173409/http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=932. dead.
4. Web site: Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize - The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 31 October 2011. 31 January 2017. 10 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170410061005/https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-exhibitions/gilder-lehrman-lincoln-prize. dead.
5. Web site: Awards and Recognition - American Civil War Museum. 2017-01-31. 2016-10-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20161014074042/http://acwm.org/learn-and-do/awards-and-recognition. dead.
6. Web site: Douglas Southall Freeman History Award. 17 November 2010.