Stephen A. West

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Ph.D., 1998, Columbia University
Civil War, Reconstruction, Southern US history

Contact: wests@cua.edu

Spring 2009 Office Hours: Monday, 5-6pm; Tuesday and Thursday, 11am-1pm; and by appointment

Sample Publications

• From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850-1915. University of Virginia Press, 2008.

• " 'A General Remodeling of Every Thing': Economy and Race in the Post-Emancipation South." In Thomas J. Brown, ed., Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States. Oxford University Press, 2006.

• "Minute Men, Yeomen, and the Mobilization for Secession in Upcountry South Carolina." Journal of Southern History 71 (Feb. 2005): 75-104.

Courses Taught

• History 353 - Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
• History 357 - History of the Old South, 1607-1865
• History 660 - Graduate Readings on Civil War and Reconstruction

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