19th-century U.S. South; Appalachia; Civil War

Professor, University Professor
Ph.D. North Carolina 1985

Office: 111 LeConte
Office Hours: TR 11:00-12:00
Phone: (706) 542-8848

jinscoe@uga.edu

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John Inscoe is the author of Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina and co-author of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: The Civil War in Western North Carolina, and has edited or co-edited volumes on Georgia race relations, Appalachians and race in the 19th century, southern Unionists during the Civil War, and on Confederate nationalism and identity, produced as a tribute to Emory Thomas. He edited the Georgia Historical Quarterly for fifteen years and is currently the editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia and Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern Historical Association. He has just completed a forthcoming book entitled Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South, and is at work on a book on southern autobiography and memoir.

Research and Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas (LSU Press, 2005) co-editor

"Enemies of the Country": New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South (University of Georgia Press, 2001) co-editor

Appalachians and Race: From Slavery to Segregation in the Mountain South (University Press of Kentucky, 2000) editor

The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina's Civil War (UNC Press, 2000) co-authored with Gordon B. McKinney

James Edward Oglethorpe: New Perspectives on His Life and Legacy (Georgia Historical Society, 1997) A Tercentenary, edited

Georgia in Black and White: Explorations in the Race Relations of a Southern State, 1865-1950 (UGA Press, 1994)

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: A Southern Historian and His Critics (Greenwood Press, 1990) co-edited

Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (University of Tennessee Press, 1989) [More Info]

The New Georgia Encyclopedia (, ) editor [More Info]

Courses Taught

HIST2112: U.S. History 1865 to Present [Syllabus]

HIST4050: American Lives [Syllabus]

HIST4071: Antebellum South [Syllabus]

HISt4110: Multicultural Georgia

HIST4110H: Multicultural Georgia (Honors) [Syllabus]

HIST4990: Senior Seminar [Syllabus]

HIST6000: Studies in American History [Syllabus]

HIST8020: Seminar in Middle Period United States History [Syllabus]

HIST8030: Seminar in Recent United States History [Syllabus]

Dissertations Supervised

Osborn, Kyle, "Seeing Like Southerners: Georgians Imagine the Antebellum North" (In Progress)

Engel, Mary Ella, "Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Georgia" (2009)

Myers, Barton, "'Rebels against a Rebellion': Southern Unionists in Secession, War, and Remembrance" (2009)

Nash, Steve, "The Extremest Conditions of Humanity: Emancipation, Conflict, and Progress in Western North Carolina, 1865-1880" (2009)

Justice, George, "Conventional Wisdom: Georgia State Constitutional Conventions and The Transformation of Nationalism from Republic to Modern American State, 1777-1877" (2008)

Browning, Judkin, "When Worlds Collide: The Myriad Effects of Occupation in the American Civil War" (2006)

Stewart, Bruce E., "Moonshiners on our Mind: Illicit Distilling, Prohibition, and Identity in Western North Carolina, 1791-1908" (2006)

Brown, Ras Michael, "Crossing Kalunga: West-Central Africans and their Cultural Influence in the South Carolina-Georgia Lowcountry" (2004)

Mitchell, Glenda Bridges, "Spirit-filled Women : Louisiana's United Pentecostal Church International and Modern American Culture" (2003)

Brashear, C. Craig, "Election Ground: Place, Markets, and Class in East Tennessee's Second American Party System" (2000)

MA Theses Supervised

Myers, Barton, "Executing Daniel Bright" (2005)

Buseman, Michael Joseph, "One trade, two worlds: politics, conflict, and the illicit liquor trade in White County, Georgia and Pickens County, South Carolina, 1894-1895" (2002)

McCallister, Andrew Beecher, ""A Source of Pleasure, Profit, and Pride": Tourism, Industrialization, and Conservation at Tallulah Falls, Georgia, 1820-1915" (2002)

Stallings, Frances Patricia, "Presenting Mr. Ira's Masterpiece: Two Centuries of Agricultural Change at the Shields-Ethridge Farm" (2002)

Connolly, David Hugh, "The Conservative Republicanism of Judge Joseph Henry Lumpkin: The Political, Economic and Moral Regeneration of the Antebellum South" (2000)

Warren, Wallace Hugh, "Progress and its Discontents: The Transformation of the Georgia Foothills, 1920-1970" (1997)

Cline, Lori Anne, ""Something Wrong In South Carolina: Antebellum Agricultural Tenancy and Primitive Accumulation in Three Districts"" (1996)

Sarris, Jonathan Dean, "The Madden Branch Massacre: Loyalty and Disloyalty in North Georgia's Guerrilla War 1861-1865" (1994)