Scott Reynolds Nelson

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

Awards received

• 2007 Merle Curti Award for Steel Drivin' Man^[2]
• 2007 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Steel Drivin' Man
• 2007 National Award for Arts Writing for Steel Drivin' Man
• 2007 Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction for Steel Drivin' Man

Works

• Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction. UNC Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8078-4803-6.
• Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN -9780195341195.
• 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, 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.
• A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters. Random House Digital, Inc. 2012. ISBN 9780307961051.

References

1. William & Mary - Scott Nelson
2. Organization of American Historians: Participating Speakers
3. Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, 2007

External links

• "Author's website"
• Nicole Stockdale (November 25, 2008). "Scott Reynolds Nelson: Our downturn is more 1873 than 1929". The Dallas Morning News.
• "Interview with Scott Reynolds Nelson", Sound Authors Radio, January 9, 2009
• "The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis", Chronicle of Higher Education, 10-17-08
• "How the Crash Will Reshape America", The Atlantic, Richard Florida
• "Interview with Scott Reynolds Nelson", Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program, February 4, 2010
• "Attribution Lacking, or, The Day a Dutch Newspaper Stole My Grandmother", Chronicle of Higher Education, April 24, 2009