Charles Royster

Charles Royster is an American historian, and Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University.^[1]

Life

He graduated from University of California, Berkeley with an A.B. in 1966, an M.A. in 1967, and a Ph.D in 1977.

He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.^[2]

Awards and honors

• 1981 Francis Parkman Prize
• 1992 Bancroft Prize
• 1992 Lincoln Prize
• 1992 Charles Snydor Award
• Society of American Historians Fellow
• 1982 Guggenheim Fellow ^[3]

Works

• The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company. Borzoi Books. 1999. ISBN 9780679433453. 
• The destructive war: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans. Knopf. 1991. ISBN 9780394524856. 
• Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution. CUP Archive. 1982. ISBN 9780521270656. http://books.google.com/books?id=Dgo4AAAAIAAJ&dq=Charles+Royster&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=zNznBjs7gP&sig=AzRU1SYuRXtF_RBwSa8pm93W2zM&hl=en&ei=LLk6S6CbKI7YM4_CubkL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• A Revolutionary People at War. The University of North Carolina Press. 1979. ISBN 9780807846063.  (reprint 1996)

Editor

• Ian Barnes (2000). Charles Royster. ed. The historical atlas of the American Revolution. Routledge. ISBN 9780415922432. http://books.google.com/books?id=KpLky3YcHAEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Charles+Royster&cd=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• 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 9780807131800. http://books.google.com/books?id=Onul9hz5Jj4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Charles+Royster&cd=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://appl003.lsu.edu/acadaff/aaffairs.nsf/$Content/Charles+Royster?OpenDocument
2. ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26378
3. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/12638-charles-william-royster

Persondata
Name	Royster, Charles
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death