George C. Rable

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.

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.{{cite web|url=https://history.ua.edu/emeritus-professor-george-rable-featured-in-documentary/|title=Professor Emeritus George Rable Featured in Documentary|publisher=}} The book includes a traditional military analysis of the Civil War while also exploring the social context of the conflict.{{cite web|url=http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=932|title=Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! - George C. Rable - University of North Carolina|publisher=|access-date=2008-07-07|archive-date=2009-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213173409/http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=932|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-exhibitions/gilder-lehrman-lincoln-prize|title=Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize - The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History|date=31 October 2011|publisher=|access-date=31 January 2017|archive-date=10 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410061005/https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-exhibitions/gilder-lehrman-lincoln-prize|url-status=dead}} The book was also awarded the Jefferson Davis Award{{cite web|url=https://acwm.org/learn-and-do/awards-and-recognition|title=Awards and Recognition - American Civil War Museum|publisher=|access-date=2017-01-31|archive-date=2016-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014074042/http://acwm.org/learn-and-do/awards-and-recognition|url-status=dead}} and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award{{cite web|url=http://www.militaryorderofthestarsandbars.org/service-programs/literary-awards/douglas-southall-freeman-history-award/|title=Douglas Southall Freeman History Award|date=17 November 2010|publisher=}} 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.

• ''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}}

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