Contact:
W. Scott Poole, Assistant Professor, Associate Director of Graduate Studies Program

Email:poolews@cofc.edu
Department of History
Office:Maybank 218
Hours: by appt.
Phone: 953-4862

Ph.D. University of Mississippi, 2001
M.A. Harvard, 1997

Focus on Faculty
The Confederate "Lost Cause" is Not Lost to Historian    

Background:
W. SCOTT POOLE (U.S. South Cultural, South Carolina, American Religion) received his Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi in 2001. One of his recent publications is "Religion, Gender and the Lost Cause": Hampton or Hell! in The Journal of Southern HistoryVolume LXVIII, August, 2002. He is author of Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry (UGA Press, 2004) His book won the George C. Rogers award from the South Carolina Historical Society for best book in S.C. history. He is also co-editor of Vale of Tears: New Essays in Religion and Reconstruction (Mercer University Press, 2005). He third book is South Carolina's Civil War; A Narrative History (Mercer University Press, 2005).He is currently co-authoring a short history of South Carolina with Dr. Jack Bass. He will be developing several graduate courses, topics to include Confederate memory, 20th century S.C. history, American religion and the religious traditions of the African Diaspora.

Courses:
Society and Culture of Early Charleston
South Carolina in the New South
History of South Carolina
Religion in the American South
Research: South Carolina and historical memory; African American history and the Civil War.

Fall 2008
HIST 310.001
ST: Religion in America
HIST 101.015

Spring 2009
HIST 620.090
ST: Religion in the Atlantic Wrold
HIST 101.010

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