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George C. Rable holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. Among Prof. Rable’s publications are: Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South; God’s Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War; Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!, winner of the Lincoln Prize, the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award in American Military History, the Jefferson Davis Award, and the Douglas Southall Freeman Southern History Award; The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics; Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism, 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.