• George C. Rable
  Professor
  Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History
  Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1978
  
  grable@bama.ua.edu
  
  Fall 2011 Office Hours: Monday, 10:30 -11:30 a.m.; Tuesday 10:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:00-2:00 p.m.; Wednesday 10:30-11:30 a.m.; by appointment.

  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:

• God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
  • Recipient of the Jefferson Davis Award
• Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
  • Winner of the Lincoln Prize
  • Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in American Military History
  • Winner of the Jefferson Davis Award
  • Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman Southern History Award
  • A History Book Club Selection
• The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994).
  • A History Book Club Selection
• Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989).
  • Winner of the Jefferson Davis Award
  • Winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize
• But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984).

Current Projects:

• A study of the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan and a study of how Confederates defined their “Yankee” enemies.

Other Awards and Honors:

• Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor, University of Alabama (2003).
• President, Society of Civil War Historians (2004-8).

Hobbies:

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