Charles W. Royster
Boyd Professor

231A Himes Hall
578-4507

COURSES TAUGHT: American Civil War; History of American Wars; Introductory Graduate Seminar in U.S. History
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:   U.S. and Indochina before 1940
INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:  America before 1789; American Civil War
BRIEF VITA

Education:
A.B. (1966), M.A. (1967), Ph.D. (1977), University of California, Berkeley

Awards and Honors:
Francis Parkman Prize (1981)
Bancroft Prize (1992)
Lincoln Prize (1992)
Charles Sydnor Award (1992)
Fellow, Society of American Historians
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow (1982)

About The Destructive War  

Books:  

The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1999)

The Destructive War (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1991)

Light-Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1981)

A Revolutionary People at War (U. of North Carolina Press, 1979)