Scott Reynolds Nelson

Scott Reynolds Nelson is the Georgia Athletics Association Professor of History at the University of Georgia.[1] He was formerly the Legum Professor of History at the College of William and Mary.[2] He is a historian of the American Civil War and the Gilded Age. He specializes in African-American history and Labor history.[3][4]

Scott Reynolds Nelson
Born1964
Genrenon-fiction
Subjectarts
Notable worksSteel Drivin' Man
Notable awardsMarfield Prize
Merle Curti Award
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction

Awards received

for Steel Drivin' Man

for Ain't Nothing But a Man

  • 2008 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
  • 2009 Aesop Prize (Folklore Society of America)
  • 2009 Jane Addams Prize, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  • 2009 Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts, National Center for Teachers of English
  • 2009 American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults

Works

  • Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction. UNC Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8078-4803-6. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
  • Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN -9780195341195. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
  • Scott Reynolds Nelson, Carol Sheriff (2007). A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514654-7. Scott Reynolds Nelson.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  • Scott Reynolds Nelson, Marc Aronson (2008). Ain't Nothing But A Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-1-4263-0000-4. Scott Reynolds Nelson.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  • A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters. Random House Digital, Inc. 2012. ISBN 9780307961051.

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