Scott Reynolds Nelson
Scott Reynolds Nelson is an American historian . His main research interests are the history of the United States in the 19th century.
Life
Nelson attended Rollins College from 1981 to 1982 . He then studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1987 . He later received a Master of Arts in history of the United States and received his doctorate for Ph.D.
From 1994 he taught at the College of William & Mary , first as Assistant Professor of History from 1994 to 2001 , then from 2001 to 2007 as Associate Professor of History and finally from 2007 to 2016 as Legum Professor of History . In 2016 he moved to Franklin College at the University of Georgia , where he has since taught as an Athletic Association Professor in the Humanities .
Nelson was one from 1998 to 2001 the editorial board of the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and was from 2003 to 2011 Associate Editor of the journal Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era . He was also a member of the editorial board of Virginia Magazine of History & Biography from 2007 to 2011 and has been a member of the editorial board of Labor: Studies of Working Class History of the Americas since 2007 . From 2012 to 2013 he was President of the Southern Labor Studies Association .
His book Steel Drivin 'Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend received the 2007 Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award .
Nelson has been married to historian Cindy Hahamovitch since 1985 . They had met at Rollins College. The marriage resulted in two children, a son and a daughter.
Publications (selection)
- Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction (1999, University of North Carolina Press)
- Steel Drivin 'Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend (2006, Oxford University Press )
- with Marc Aronson: Ain't Nothing But A Man (2007, National Geographic Children's Books)
- with Carol Sheriff: A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War (2007, Oxford University Press)
- A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters (2012, Knopf)
- with Carol Sheriff (Ed.): The American Civil War at Home (2013, Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission)
Web links
- Curriculum Vitae on the University of Georgia website
Individual evidence
- ^ Former winners of the Merle Curti Award , Organization of American Historians website
- ^ A b When business meets pleasure: Scott Nelson and Cindy Hahamovitch , February 11, 2013, The Flat Hat
- ^ Official website of Scott Reynolds Nelson
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| SURNAME | Nelson, Scott Reynolds |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |