W. SCOTT POOLE (Cultural History, American Religion, South Carolina History)
Scott Poole holds an M.T.S. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in American history from University of Mississippi.
His most recent book, co-edited with Jack Bass, is The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina ,USC Press, 2009.

He has written several previous books including a study of the Lost Cause movement entitled Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry ,UGA Press 2004. Never Surrender won the George C. Rogers award for Best Book in South Carolina History, 2004.

Poole is also the author of South Carolina's Civil War ,Mercer, 2005 and the co-editor of a collection of essays with Edward J. Blum entitled Vale of Tears: New Essays in Religion and Reconstruction, Mercer 2005.

Courses:
South Carolina in the New South

W. Scott Poole , Associate Professor and
Director Graduate History Program
Email:poolews@cofc.edu
Office: MYBK 218
Phone: 953-4862