Spring 2002 Courses:
HIS 202 (US History 2)
HIS 350 (The Am. Revolution)

Office Hours (Spring 02):
MW 3:30-5, TTH 12:30-1:30, 3:30-4:30

Scholarly Interests: Southern history during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, emphasizing law, politics, and race.

Recent Activities:
•Lawrence Friedman Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award for Excellence in a Dissertation,Bowling Green U., 2001
•Review of "At Freedom's Door: African-American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina" ed. by James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke, Jr., South Carolina Historical Magazine, 102, 4 (October 2001): 366-367.

Philosophy of Teaching: As a historian, my primary obligation is to provide students with a foundation of knowledge about American history and to encourage historical scholarship. In doing so I seek to provide students with an understanding of how knowledge and intellectual precision are part of the skills necessary for fulfilling their mission in life.

119 Watkins Teaching Center / Phone: (864) 231-5796
E-mail: lreece@ac.edu