Albert E. Castel
Albert E. Castel was an American historian and author.
He specialized in American [Civil War|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.