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Edmund L. Drago
Professor of History

College of Charleston
History Department
66 George St.
College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C. 29424
Phone: (843) 953-5711 (Office)
E-Mail Address: dragoe@cofc.edu FAX (843) 953-6349

Born, Chicago, Illinois
Spouse: Cheryle Drago
Military Commitment (ROTC), 1969-1972, completed when I left the U.S. Army Adjutant General's Corps as a Captain ( Vietnam veteran)

EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1975) University of California, Berkeley

M.A. (1966) University of California, Berkeley

B.A. (1964) University of Santa Clara

TEACHING FIELDS (College of Charleston, 1975 to present)
Children’s History
American Civil War and Reconstruction
World History

RESEARCH FIELDS
American Civil War and Reconstruction; South Carolina and Georgia
African-American, Children’s History

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
Books
Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina ( Fordham University Press, 2008)

Charleston’s Avery Center: From Education and Civil Rights to Preserving the African American Experience (History Press, Charleston and London, 2006).

Hurrah for Hampton: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction (University of Arkansas Press, 1998)

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (University of Georgia Press, Brown Thrasher edition, 1992). Revised to include new preface and chart listing local black officials.

"Broke by the War": Letters of a Slave Trader (University of
South Carolina Press, 1991)

Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery
Normal Institute (University of Georgia Press, 1990).

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid
Failure (Louisiana State University Press, 1982)