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<\/p>\nGeorge C. Rable is Professor Emeritus and formerly the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama.\u00a0\u00a0Born in Lima, Ohio, in 1950, he received his B.A from Bluffton College (1972), his M.A from Louisiana State University (1973), and his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (1978) where he studied under T. Harry Williams.\u00a0\u00a0He taught at Anderson University in Indiana from 1979-1998.\u00a0\u00a0From 2004-2008, he served as the President of the Society of Civil War Historians.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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His books include:\u00a0\u00a0God\u2019s Almost Chosen Peoples:\u00a0\u00a0A Religious History of the American Civil War\u00a0\u00a0(University of North Carolina Press, 2010), which has won the 2011 Jefferson Davis Award and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title;\u00a0Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!(University of North Carolina Press, 2002), which won the Lincoln Prize, the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in American Military History, the Jefferson Davis Award, the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award and was a\u00a0History Book Club selection;\u00a0The Confederate Republic:\u00a0\u00a0A Revolution Against Politics(University of North Carolina Press, 1994), which was a History Book Club selection;\u00a0Civil Wars:\u00a0\u00a0Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism(University of Illinois Press, 1989), which won the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize and the Jefferson Davis Award; and\u00a0But There Was No Peace:\u00a0\u00a0The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction.(University of Georgia Press, 1984).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0His most recent book is\u00a0Damn Yankees!\u00a0Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South(Louisiana State University Press, 2015), which won the James I. Robertson, Jr. Literary Prize.\u00a0\u00a0He is currently working on a book on the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan.<\/p>\n\n\n
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