Rod Gragg is an historian and lecturer at Coastal Carolina University. He has written more than twenty books on historical topics from America’s Colonial Era through World War II. Among them are Forged in Faith: How Faith Shaped the Birth of the Nation, which was nominated for the George Washington Book Prize; Covered with Glory, a history of the Battle of Gettysburg, which earned the James Robertson Award as the best Civil War book of the year; and Confederate Goliath: the Battle of Fort Fisher, which received the Fletcher Pratt Award from the New York City Civil War Roundtable, and was the basis of a PBS documentary.

One of his titles, My Brother’s Keeper: Christians Who Risked All to Protect Jewish Targets of the Holocaust, was a finalist for the national Christian Book Award, and his collected work on the American Revolution earned the 2025 Moss History Award from the South Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution.

A former print journalist and television news anchor, Gragg is frequently engaged as a public speaker, and has appeared on numerous popular broadcast programs.

Gragg currently serves as director of the United Bank Center for Military and Veteran Studies at Coastal Carolina University, where he is also a history lecturer. He and his wife are the parents of seven grown children and the grandparents to fourteen grandchildren.

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