Summary
Alan T. Nolan (19 January 1923, in Evansville, Indiana – 27 July 2008, in Indianapolis) was an American military historian, best remembered for his books The Iron Brigade (1961), Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History (1991), and "Rally, Once Again!": Selected Civil War Writings (2000). A graduate of Indiana University and Harvard Law School, he was a law clerk under Sherman Minton at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He would later go on to serve as chairman of the disciplinary committee for the Indiana Supreme Court. A board member of the NAACP, and twice named Sagamore of the Wabash, he was awarded an honorary degree in humane letters from Indiana University, and later served as chairman of the Indiana Historical Society.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
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- ^ Bodenhamer, David J.; Barrows, Robert G. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Indiana University Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-253-11249-1.
- ^ Boyer, Paul S. The Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
- ^ Roland, Charles (12 September 2010). History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History. University Press of Kentucky. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8131-2917-4.
- ^ Erickson, Norma (21 June 2021). "Alan T. Nolan". Encyclopedia of Indiana. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
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- ^ "Books by Alan T. Nolan and Complete Book Reviews". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 23 September 2023.