• George C. Rable
  Professor and Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History
  Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 1978
  
  grable@bama.ua.edu
  
  Fall 2008 Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 10-12:00 p.m.
  

  Research Interests:

• Southern History
• American Civil War


Courses Recently Taught:

• American Civilization to 1865
• American South to 1865
• Literature of American History (Graduate)
• Literature of Southern History (Graduate)
• Graduate Proseminar on the Civil War

Recent Publications:

• Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Winner of the Lincoln Prize, Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in American Military
  History, the Jefferson Davis Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Southern History Award. History Book Club Selection.
• The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 1994). History Book Club selection.
• Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (University of Illinois Press, 1989). Jefferson Davis Award and the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize.
• But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (University of Georgia Press, 1984).
• Current Project: researching the role of religion in the Civil War for the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era.

Other Awards and Honors:

• Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor, University of Alabama (2003).
• President, Society of Civil War Historians (2004-).

Hobbies:

• Watching bad baseball (Reds), endless suffering with the Cleveland Browns.
• Reading British mystery novels