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Rable will present the 15th Annual Sammy O. Cranford Memorial History Lecture at Delta State

By April 3, 2012General

Dr. George RableThe Division of Social Sciences and History at Delta State University is pleased to announce that Dr. George Rable will present the 15th Annual Sammy O. Cranford Memorial History Lecture on Thursday, April 19 at 7 p.m. in the Jobe Hall Auditorium.  Rable’s lecture will discuss the role of religion in the American Civil War.  The title of his lecture is:  “God as General:  Was There a Religious History of the American Civil War?”

Rable earned his Ph.D. in History from Louisiana State University and currently serves as the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama.

He specializes in the American Civil War and is the author of several books.  Among his major books are:  But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (University of Georgia Press, 1984), Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (University of Illinois Press, 1989), The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 1994), and Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (University of North Carolina Press, 2002).  

His most recent work, God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War, was published in 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press and received the 2010 Jefferson Davis Award.  It has also been named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.

Rable is one of only two three-time winners of the Davis Award, which the Museum of the Confederacy awards annually to the most outstanding narrative work in the study of the Confederacy.  

In 2003, he won the Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award at the University of Alabama.  He served as president of the Society of Civil War Historians from 2004 to 2008.  This April, the University of Alabama is honoring him with the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award for outstanding achievement in academic research.

Rable and his wife Kay live in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and have two daughters, Anne and Katie.  

The lecture series, established to commemorate the life and work of Delta State History Professor Sammy O. Cranford, is free and open to the general public, as is the reception following.

For further information, contact the Delta State History Department at (662) 846-4170.