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

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.