George C. Rable holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. Among Prof. Rable’s publications are three books: The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (1984), which was a selection of the History Book Club; Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989), which won the Jefferson Davis Award and the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize; and But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (1984).
His Klement Lecture is based on his just-completed book about civilians during the Fredericksburg campaign.