Nagel, Paul C(hester)

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NAGEL, Paul C(hester)

NAGEL, Paul C(hester). American, b. 1926. Genres: History, Biography. Career: Lecturer and biographer, 1991-. Professor of History, 1964-69, and Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 1965-69, University of Kentucky, Lexington; Professor of History, 1969-78, and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, 1970-74, University of Missouri, Columbia; Professor of History and Head of Dept., University of Georgia, Athens, 1978-81; Director, Virginia Historical Society, 1981-85; Distinguished Lee Scholar, R. E. Lee Memorial Foundation, 1986-90; Visiting Scholar, Duke University, 1991-92; Visiting Scholar, University of Minnesota, 1992-; Research Associate, Carleton College, 1992-2002. Publications: One Nation Indivisible: The Union in American Thought 1776-1861, 1964; This Sacred Trust: American Nationality 1798-1898, 1971; Missouri: A History, 1977; Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family, 1983, 1999; (co-author) Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography, 1986; The Adams Women, 1987, 1999; (co-author) George Caleb Bingham, 1989; The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family, 1990; (co-author) Massachusetts and The New Nation, 1992; John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life, 1997; The German Migration to Missouri, 2002. Address: 1425 10th Ave S Apt 655, Minneapolis, MN 55404-5354, U.S.A.