{{short description|American historian and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} '''George C. Rable''' is an American historian and author. He is Professor Emeritus at the [[University of Alabama]].<ref name="ua.edu">{{cite web|url=https://history.ua.edu/faculty/george-c-rable/|title=George C. Rable|publisher=}}</ref> He received the [[Lincoln Prize]] in 2003 for his 2002 book ''[[Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (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.<ref name="ua.edu"/>
==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 [[American Civil War|Civil War]] scholarship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.ua.edu/emeritus-professor-george-rable-featured-in-documentary/|title=Professor Emeritus George Rable Featured in Documentary|publisher=}}</ref> The book includes a traditional military analysis of the Civil War while also exploring the social context of the conflict.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> The book was also awarded the Jefferson Davis Award<ref name="acwm.org">{{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}}</ref> and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award<ref>{{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=}}</ref> and the [[Society for Military History|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<ref name="acwm.org"/> and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.<ref name="ua.edu"/>
==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. {{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 of 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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== External links == [https://www.c-span.org/person/?59923/GeorgeRable Appearances] on [[C-SPAN]]{{authority control}}
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