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   UA professor to speak at annual history lecture at TSU
   The Department of History at Troy State University will host the second McPherson-Mitchell Lecture Series in Southern History on Thursday, Nov.21 beginning at 7 p.m. in the Claudia Crosby Theater of Smith Hall.
   The lecturer for 2002 will be Dr. George Rable, Charles Somersell Professor of Southern History at the University of Alabama since 1998 His topic will be "What Can Be Learned From the History of a Christian Slaveholders’ Republic?"
   The lecture, held every two years, honors two former TSU history professors, Dr. Milton McPherson and Dr. Norma Taylor Mitchell.
   Dr. Rable received his bachelor’s degree from Bluffton College and his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.
   His publications include:

"Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!" ( University of North Carolina Press, March 2002), which was a History Book Club selection and winner of the 2002 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award; "The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics" (University of North Carolina Press, 1994), which was a History Book Club Selection; "Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism" (The University of Illinois Press, 1989) which was Winner of 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" (The University of Georgia Press, 1984).
Dr. Rable is currently researching the role of religion in the Civil War for the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era.