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| Born | 1964 |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Subject | arts |
| Notable works | Steel Drivin' Man, Oceans of Grain |
| Notable awards | Marfield Prize Merle Curti Award Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction |
| Spouse | Cindy Hahamovitch (1985-present) |
Scott Reynolds Nelson is the Georgia Athletic 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 Long Nineteenth Century. He specializes in Labor history, international finance, the history of science, and global commodities.[3][4][5]
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The Ballad of John Henry
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How Sugar Changed the World: Slavery, Freedom, and Science (2010)
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Awards received
for Steel Drivin' Man
- 2006 National Award for Arts Writing
- 2007 Merle Curti Award
- 2007 Anisfield-Wolf Award
- 2007 Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction
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.
- 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.
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- A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters. Random House Digital, Inc. 2012. ISBN 978-0-307-96105-1.
- Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. Basic Books. 2022. ISBN 978-1-5416-4646-9.
References
- ^ "Scott Reynolds Nelson | History Department".
- ^ William & Mary - Scott Nelson Archived 2011-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Organization of American Historians: Participating Speakers
- ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, 2007
- ^ https://hist.franklin.uga.edu/directory/people/scott-reynolds-nelson
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
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