College of Charleston, Department of History
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 seven publications:
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
"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)
AWARDS
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers (1981)
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in Italy, 1994.
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
CV:
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)
Articles
“The Black Women of Charleston as Agents of Change and Preservers of the African American Heritage,” The Avery Review 3 (Spring 2000): 81-92.
" Georgia's First Black Voter Registrars during Reconstruction,"
Georgia Historical Quarterly 78 (Winter 1994): 760-793.
"Reconstruction and Restoration-1866-1875, 11 in J. P. Petit, ed.
South Carolina and the Sea ( Charleston, 1986) 2: 144-149
"The Black Household in Dougherty County, Georgia, 1865-1900," 11
Prologue, 14 (1982): 81-88; also reprinted in Journal of
Southwest Georgia History 1 (1983): 38-48.
With Ralph Melnick, "The Old Slave Mart Museum, Charleston, South
Carolina: Rediscovering the Past," Civil War History, 27 (1981)-.138-154
"Black Americans and Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia," Negro History
Bulletin, 41 (1978): 883-884.
"Militancy and Black Women in Reconstruction Georgia," Journal of
American Culture, 1 (1978): 838-844.
"The Black Press and Populism, 1890-1896, 11 San Jose Studies, 1
(1975): 97 - 104.
"How Sherman's March through Georgia Affected the Slaves,"
Georgia Historical Quarterly, 67 (1973): 361-375.
Chapters in Books
“Wade Hampton’s Black Red Shirts,” University of South Carolina, Caroliniana, in book on Governor Wade Hampton, III (forthcoming).
Pamphlet:
Preserving and Using Your Community’s Recorded Past: A Speech given by Edmund L. Drago at the State Historical Records and Advisory Board Thursday 7 March 1996 South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1996.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries (Since 1999)
“Avery Normal Institute,” Encyclopedia of South Carolina History (Summer 2001)
“Red Shirts,” Dictionary of American History 3 rd ed. (2001)
“Black Legislators: Reconstruction Era,” The New Georgia Encyclopedia (Summer 2000)
Select Papers/Panels
“Wade Hampton’s Black Red Shirts,” Symposium, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. March 24, 2007
Confederate Children and the Commonality of the War Experience: Civil War South Carolina Test Case,” Conference, “Children’s Worlds, Children in the World,” Society for the History of Children and Biennial Meeting, Marquette University, Milwaukee, August 4-7, 2005, Panel: Childhood Under Fire: American Children at War Across Three Centuries, Saturday, August 6, 2005.
"The First African American Voter Registrars in Reconstruction
Georgia, delivered on 30 March 1994, at the Irish Association for
American Studies annual conference, held at University of Ulster,
Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, UK
"Populisms: Democratic or Reactionary?" University of Genoa, 1994.
Grants and Awards
Special Citation for Service, Fulbright Association, Spring 2007
Fellow, Institute of Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, summer 1997
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Teaching), Genoa, Italy, January-June 1994
Award for Excellence and Historical Research, St. Ignatius High School, Chicago, September 30, 1995
College of Charleston Distinguished Research Award, 1991
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1981
Select Public Lectures
“The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Children in South Carolina,” Associazone Italo Britanica, Chiavari, Italy, May 25, 2000
"Preserving and Using Your Community's Recorded Past," State Historical Records and Advisory Board Conference, State Museum, Columbia, S.C., March 7, 1996
" Boston and the Deromanticizing of Slavery," Rabb Lecture Hall
Series, Boston Public Library, Copley Square, March 12, 1992.
Lecture Specialties
Civil War Children
Charleston’s Old Slave Mart
Charleston’s Avery Center: From Education and Civil Rights to Preserving the African American Experience
South Carolina’s Boy Soldiers
Professional Organizations
American Association of University Professors
American Historical Association
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture
Caroliniana
Fulbright Association
Vice-President, Board, South Carolina Chapter
Georgia Historical Society
Society of Civil War Historians
Society for the History of Children and Youth
South Carolina Historical Society
Southern Historical Association
Member, William F. Holmes Award Prize Committee
Current Service Interests
Ad-Hoc Committee on the Brownfellowship Burial Society and the Addlestone Library (African Burial Societies Memorial, Dedication, February 7, 2008)
Ad-Hoc Committee to find ways to help Veterans at the College (2008)
Contact:
Edmund L. Drago,
Professor
of History
Department
of History
Office: Maybank 308
Phone: 953-8027
Email: dragoe@cofc.edu
Vice President of the SC Fulbright Association
Focus on Faculty 2004
30 Years of Service to the college Award
May 2006
Fall 2009:
Sabbatical
Spring 2010:
Research Seminar
410.001
Civilians & Soldiers in American Civil War Era
104.005
