Courses:

FALL 2009
Graduate HIST 523.090
Afro-American History
HIST 216.001
HIST 201.001

SPRING 2010:
HIST 217.001
African American History Since 1865

HIST 366.001
Comparative Slavery in the Americas

HIST 201.001
U.S. to 1865

Contact:
Bernard E. Powers, Jr., Professor of History; Director of African-American Studies

Email:powersb@cofc.edu
Department of History
Office:Maybank 323
Phone: 953-8127

BERNARD E. POWERS, JR.
(United States, African-American) received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1982. His major work is Black Charlestonians: A Social History 1822-1885, (University of Arkansas Press,1994). which won a Choice Award for Best Academic Books in 1995. His article "Community Evolution and Race Relations in Reconstruction Charleston, S.C." was selected as one of the "Three Articles From A Century of Excellence" Centennial Volume 1900-2000 of The South Carolina Historical Magazine 101 (July 2000): 214-233. He is presently conducting research on the history of the A.M.E. Church in South Carolina.

Dr. Bernard L. Powers Jr., Professor of History lectured on "'A World in Shadow: Persons of Color in Antebellum South Carolina' South Carolina and the United States, 1763-1860"

Fall 2008
Drayton Hall
Bowen Commemoration Speaker. read more...