EDMUND L. DRAGO (U.S. History, 19th Century, Civil War and Reconstruction, South Carolina) received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. He came to the College of Charleston the same year. A Full Professor, he is the author of Hurrah For Hampton: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction (1998); Initiative, Paternalism and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute (1990) and "Broke by the War": Letters of a Slave Trader (1991); Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (1982)
His awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers (1981), and a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Teaching) Italy, 1994. He has taught graduate level courses on the Civil War and South Carolina. His current book at press is The Confederate Phoenix which deals with the impact of the Civil War on children.
Edmund Drago,
Professor
Email: dragoe@cofc.edu
Vice President of the SC
Fulbright Association
Home: Department
of History
Office:
Maybank 308
Phone: 953-5940
Fall 2008:
HIST 304.001 History of the U.S.: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1845 to 1877
HIST 103.002, 005
Spring 2009
Professor, History Department
College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C. 29424
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).
Phone: (843) 884-5212
E-Mail Address: Dragoe@cofc.edu FAX: (843) 953-6349
Education
Ph.D. (1975) and M.A. (1966), History, University of California,
Berkeley; B.A., History, University of Santa Clara, 1964
Teaching Fields
U.S. History: Nineteenth-Century, American Civil War and
Reconstruction; Gilded Age, South Carolina
European History, Survey, Ancient to the Present
World History
Teaching
Experience (Courses Taught)
(College of Charleston, 1975 to present)
Civil War and Reconstruction (graduate and undergraduate)
United States History, 1865-1918
South Carolina (team taught)
Lowcountry (South Carolina Governor's School)
Special Topics in South Carolina History (graduate seminar) Honors Civil War
and Reconstruction (seminar) Ku Klux Klan and American Society (team taught
and interdisciplinary)
European History, Ancient to the Present (two semesters)
World History to 1500 and Since 1500
Scholarly Activities
Hurrah For Hampton: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during
Reconstruction (University of Arkansas Press, 1998)
ISBN 1-55728-541-1
Documents the existence of hundreds of Black Red Shirt during the Campaign
of 1876, and what motivated them.
Preserving and Using Your Community's Past (South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Produced by the Publications Service Area, 1996) Pamphlet publishing a speech given by Edmund L. Drago at the State Historical Records Board Conference, Columbia, SC. Thursday, March, 1996.
Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid
Failure (University of Georgia Press, Brown Thrasher edition, 1992). ISBN
0-8203-1438-2
Paperback edition 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). ISBN-0-87249-763-1
Describes the life of a Sumter, SC domestic slave trader, his relationship
with a Charleston Broker, and the impact the trade had on the slaves.
Initiative, Paternalism, and Race Relations: Charleston's
Avery
Normal Institute (University of Georgia Press, 1990).
ISBN 0-8203-1124-3
Documents the history of an important black High School and Normal School
in Charleston whose graduates would help establish the NAACP in Charleston.
It ties the history of the school with larger state and national trends. It
also deals with intrasegregation among Charleston blacks.
Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid
Failure (Louisiana State University Press, 1982).
ISBN 0-8071-1021-3
Emphasizes the role religion had in shaping black politics during Congressional
Reconstruction.
Current Research Interest Children during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Consultancies
Editorial Board, Journal of Southwest Georgia History, 1983 to present.
Referee, manuscripts, for University of Georgia Press, University
of South Carolina Press, and Indiana State University Press.
Member-at-large, South Carolina Historical Records-Advisory Board, 1991 to the present.
Member, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Publications Board, 1997 to present
Referee, National Endowment for the Humanities
Member of the Membership Committees of the Organization of
American Historians and Southern Historical Association
Member, Committee of the Southern Historical Association, Francis Butler Simpkins
Prize (First Best book by an author in Southern History)
Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1981.
College of Charleston Distinguished Research Award, 1991.
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Teaching), Genoa, Italy,
January-
June 1994.
Award for Excellence and Historical Research, St. Ignatius High School, Chicago, September 30, 1995
Department of History Grant, Summer, 1997
Faculty Research and Development Committee Grant, Summer 1997
Fellow, Institute of Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Summer 1997
Public Lectures
"Boston and the Deromanticizing of Slavery," Rabb
Lecture Hall
Series, Boston Public Library, Copley Square, March 12, 1992.
Also delivered at St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., March, 1992.
Administrative Duties
Director of the Maymester Program, College of Charleston, two years.
Professional Organizations
American Association of University Professors
American Historical Association
Georgia Historical Society
Organization of American Historians
South Carolina Historical Society
Southeast World History Association
Southern Historical Association
