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.[1]
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
Civil War scholarship.[2] The book includes a traditional military analysis of the Civil War while also exploring the social context of the conflict.[3][4] The book was also awarded the Jefferson Davis Award[5] and the Douglas Southall Freeman Award[6] 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[5] and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.[1]
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.
ISBN0252015975OCLC18290214
A Revolution against Politics: The Confederate States of America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
ISBN0807821446OCLC232667648
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
ISBN0807826731OCLC46952293
God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
ISBN9780807834268OCLC607975631
Damn Yankees!: Demonization & Defiance in the Confederate South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.
ISBN9780807160589OCLC908373817
Conflict in Command: George B. McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.
ISBN978-0807179772