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Name
  
Charles Royster

Role
  
Historian

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Education
  
University of California, Berkeley (1977)

Awards
  
Bancroft Prize, Lincoln Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
A revolutionary people at, The Destructive War, The Fabulous History of, Light‑Horse Harry Lee and the L, Light‑Horse Harry Lee

Charles Royster (born 1944) is an American historian, and a retired Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University.

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Life

He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1944 and graduated from University of California, Berkeley with an A.B. in 1966, an M.A. in 1967, and a Ph.D in 1977. At Berkeley, he studied under Robert Middlekauff, a historian of the Revolutionary period.

He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Awards and honors

  • 1981 Francis Parkman Prize
  • 1982 Guggenheim Fellow
  • 1992 Bancroft Prize
  • 1992 Lincoln Prize
  • 1992 Charles Snydor Award
  • Society of American Historians Fellow

    • Works

  • The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company. Borzoi Books. 1999. ISBN 978-0-679-43345-3. 
  • The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans. Knopf. 1991. ISBN 978-0-394-52485-6. 
  • Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution. CUP Archive. 1982. ISBN 978-0-521-27065-6. 
  • A Revolutionary People at War. The University of North Carolina Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8078-4606-3.  (reprint 1996)

    • Editor

  • Ian Barnes (2000). Charles Royster, ed. The historical atlas of the American Revolution. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92243-2. 
  • James O'Neill (2006). Charles Royster, ed. Garrison tales from Tonquin: an American's stories of the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam in the 1890s. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3180-0. 

    • References

    Charles Royster Wikipedia
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