Scott Reynolds Nelson is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of History at the University of Georgia.^[1] He was formerly the Legum Professor of History at the College of William and Mary.^[2] He is a historian of the Long Nineteenth Century. He specializes in Labor history, international finance, the history of science, and global commodities.^[3][4][5]

for Steel Drivin' Man

• 2006 National Award for Arts Writing
• 2007 Merle Curti Award
• 2007 Anisfield-Wolf Award
• 2007 Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction

for Ain't Nothing But a Man

• 2008 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
• 2009 Aesop Prize (Folklore Society of America)
• 2009 Jane Addams Prize, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• 2009 Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts, National Center for Teachers of English
• 2009 American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults

• Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction. UNC Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8078-4803-6. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
• Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN -9780195341195. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
• Scott Reynolds Nelson; Carol Sheriff (2007). A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514654-7. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
• Scott Reynolds Nelson; Marc Aronson (2008). Ain't Nothing But A Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. National Geographic Books. ISBN 978-1-4263-0000-4. Scott Reynolds Nelson.
• A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters. Random House Digital, Inc. 2012. ISBN 978-0-307-96105-1.
• Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World. Basic Books. 2022. ISBN 978-1-5416-4646-9.

• "Author's website"
• Nicole Stockdale (November 25, 2008). "Scott Reynolds Nelson: Our downturn is more 1873 than 1929". The Dallas Morning News.
• "Interview with Scott Reynolds Nelson", Sound Authors Radio, January 9, 2009
• "The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis", Chronicle of Higher Education, 10-17-08
• "How the Crash Will Reshape America", The Atlantic, Richard Florida
• "Interview with Scott Reynolds Nelson", Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program, February 4, 2010
• "Attribution Lacking, or, The Day a Dutch Newspaper Stole My Grandmother", Chronicle of Higher Education, April 24, 2009