name: Albert E. Castel
birth_date: 1928-11-11 00:00:00
death_date: 2014-11-14 00:00:00
genres: Biography, History
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about: One of the leading authorities on the Civil War in the western theater, Albert Edward Castel earned his B.A. and M.A. from Wichita State University and his Ph.D. in History and Political Science from the University of Chicago. He taught at UCLA and Waynesburg College before accepting a position at Western Michigan University, where he taught from 1960 until his retirement in 1991.