George C. Rable holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. He is author of God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the Amer...view moreGeorge C. Rable holds the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama. He is author of God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War, and Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism, and The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics.view less