Paul Escott
Reynolds Professor of History
Civil War, 19th Century US
Manchester 132, 758-5505
e-mail: escott@wfu.edu

Education:
B.A.   Harvard University
M.A.  Duke University
Ph.D.  Duke University

Courses offered:
HST 357  Civil War and Reconstruction
HST 390  The Confederacy
HST 390  Civil War Leaders
FYS  The Two Reconstructions

Professional and research interests: the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Confederacy, the 19th century South

Selected Publications:

"What Shall We Do with the Negro?":  Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America, University of Virginia Press (March 31, 2009)

North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction (editor), The University of North Carolina Press (September 4, 2008)

Military Necessity:  Civil-Military Relations in the Confederacy , Praeger (January 30, 2006)

North Carolina Yeoman:  The Diary of Basil Armstrong Thomasson, 1853-1862 (editor), University of Georgia Press (June 1996)

Many Excellent People:  Power and Privilege in North Carolina, The University of North Carolina Press (1985)

Slavery Remembered:  A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives, The University of North Carolina Press (May 1, 1979)

After Secession:  Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism Louisiana State University Press (1978)