Scott Reynolds Nelson Explained

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]}

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

• Book: 1999. Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction. 978-0-8078-4803-6. registration. Scott Reynolds Nelson.. UNC Press .
• Book: 2006. Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. -9780195341195. registration. Scott Reynolds Nelson.. Oxford University Press .
• Book: 2007. A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War. 978-0-19-514654-7. registration. Scott Reynolds Nelson.. Scott Reynolds Nelson . Carol Sheriff . Oxford University Press .
• Book: 2008 . Ain't Nothing But A Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. 978-1-4263-0000-4. registration . Scott Reynolds Nelson. . Scott Reynolds Nelson . Marc Aronson . National Geographic Books .
• Book: A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters . Random House Digital, Inc.. 2012 . 978-0-307-96105-1.
• Book: Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. Basic Books. 2022. 978-1-5416-4646-9.

External links

• "Author's website"
• News: Scott Reynolds Nelson: Our downturn is more 1873 than 1929. November 25, 2008. The Dallas Morning News. Nicole Stockdale .
• "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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Scott Reynolds Nelson | History Department.
2. http://www.wm.edu/as/history/faculty/nelson_s.php William & Mary - Scott Nelson
3. http://lectures.oah.org/lecturers/lecturer.html?id=380 Organization of American Historians: Participating Speakers
4. Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, 2007
5. Web site: Scott Reynolds Nelson | History Department .