Albert E. Castel
Albert E. Castel 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.