About Albert E. Castel
Lived 1928 – 2014 (aged 86). Albert E. Castel was a historian.
Albert E. Castel (November 11, 1928 – November 14, 2014) was an American historian and author.
He specialized in Civil War history and historiography.
Life
He was born on November 11, 1928, in Wichita, Kansas.
He obtained a bachelor's and master's degree from Wichita State University in 1950 and 1951, respectively. In 1955, he earned a PhD from the University of Chicago. His dissertation, entitled A Frontier State at War: Kansas, 1861-1865, won honorable mention in the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Competition, after which it was published in 1958 as a monograph by Cornell University Press. From 1960 to 1991, he taught history at the Western Michigan University .
He died on November 14, 2014, in Columbus, Ohio.
Awards
He won the Lincoln Prize for Best Civil War book in 1992 for his book Decision in the West.
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