Jason H. Silverman              

Professor of History

Bancroft 358

(803) 323-4677

silvermanj@winthrop.edu

Old South, Civil War, American Ethnic

Background:

A specialist in the history of the Old South and Civil War, Dr. Jason Silverman received his
undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and his graduate degrees at Colorado State

University and the University of Kentucky. Before coming to Winthrop University twenty-three

years ago, Dr. Silverman was on the faculty of Yale University for four years.

Author or editor of ten books, Dr. Silverman has also won numerous awards for his teaching

and three of his books have been  nominated for national book awards. Among his teaching

awards, he has received Winthrop University's Outstanding Junior Professor Award, been named
the University's Distinguished Professor, received the Phi Kappa Phi Excellence in Teaching Award

three times and, in 1990, become the first person in Winthrop's history to be named South Carolina
Professor of the Year. He is currently working on a biography of Representative Preston Brooks of
South Carolina.

In the 2002 general election,  he was elected to the Rock Hill School Board of Trustees and was

reelected without opposition in the 2006 general election.

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Recent and Representative Publications and Presentations:                                        

•  With Susan R. Silverman, Immigration in the American South 1864-1895: A Documentary
  History of the Southern Immigration Conventions. The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 2006.         

• With Samuel N. Thomas, Jr., and Beverly D. Evans, IV,  Shanks: The Life and Wars of
  General Nathan George Evans, C.S.A. De Capo Press, New York, NY, 2002.

• With Judith A. Andrews, South Carolina: Then and Now. South Carolina Department of
   Archives and History, Columbia, S.C., 2001.

• With Samuel N. Thomas Jr., "A Rising Star of Promise:" The Civil War Odyssey of David
  Jackson Logan, 17th South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1864. Savas Publishing Company,
  Campbell, CA, 1998. [Nominated for the Museum of the Confederacy's Founder's Award.]

• With W. Martin Hope, Relief and Recovery in Post Civil War South Carolina: A Death by
  Inches. The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 1997.

• The Peopling of America: A Synoptic History. Americans All: A National Education Program,
  Beltsville, MD, 1994, rev. ed., 1995.

• Unwelcome Guests: Canada West's Response to American Fugitive Slaves, 1800-1865.
  Associated Faculty Press, Millwood, NY, 1985. [Nominated for the Anisfield-Wolf and the
  Albert Corey (AHA/CHA) Book Prizes; French language edition published by Editions
  Nouvelle Optique, Montreal, Quebec.]
  

Classes taught:

• 211. United States History to 1877 (3).
  A survey of political, diplomatic, economic, social, intellectual and ethnic developments through
  Reconstruction with  attention  to development of the Federal Constitution. Notes: Offered in fall.

• 212. United States History since 1877 (3). 
  A survey of political, diplomatic, economic, social, intellectual and ethnic developments since
  Reconstruction with  attention  to development of the Federal Constitution. Notes: Offered in fall.

• 308. American Ethnic History (3).
  A study of the experiences of Indians, Jews, European immigrants, Afro-Americans, Chinese,
  Japanese, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the United States. Notes: Offered every third semester.

• 315. Civil War and Reconstruction (3).
  A history of the coming of the American Civil War, the War and the ensuing Reconstruction period.
  Notes: Offered every third semester.

• 518. A History of the Old South. (3)
  A history of the Old South from its founding to the eve of Civil War. Notes: Offered variable times.
  Notes: Offered every third semester.

• 610. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America. Graduate Seminar offered on a periodic basis.

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Last revised 14 June 2007