Charles Royster

Charles Royster (born 1944) is an American historian, and a retired Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University.^[1]

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.^[2]

Awards and honors

• 1981 Francis Parkman Prize
• 1982 Guggenheim Fellow ^[3]
• 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

1. http://appl003.lsu.edu/acadaff/aaffairs.nsf/$Content/Charles+Royster?OpenDocument
2. "Charles Royster". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
3. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Charles Royster".