Contact:
W. Scott Poole,
Associate Professor, Associate Director of Graduate History (Joint Citadel &College of Charleston M.A. 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    

S.C. Book Festival 2009
Jack Bass and Scott Poole note the release of their current publication The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina.

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:
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 mMmory; African American History and the Civil War.

Fall 2009:
HIST 101.015

HIST 410.001 Research Seminar: Religion in American History

Sabbatical Spring 2010

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