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- Marietta Community Schools (2-hour class delivered generally twice a year)
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THOMAS A. SCOTT Professor of History Co-Director, Center for Regional History & Culture Director, Kennesaw State Oral History Project Department of History & Philosophy, Campus Mailbox #2206 Kennesaw State University 1000 Chastain Road Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591 Ph: 770-423-6254 FAX: 770-423-6432 E-Mail: tscott@kennesaw.edu Website: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~tscott/ 28 August 2007 Educational Background:B.S. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1964M.A. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1966 Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1978 Dissertation: “Cobb County, Georgia, 1880-1900: A Socioeconomic Study of an Upper Piedmont County.” Academic Career: 1967-1968: Western Piedmont Community College, Morganton, N.C. 1968-2007: Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA Current Courses HIST 3304 History of Georgia HIST 2275 Local History Research (undergraduate) HIST 2112 U.S. History, c. 1890-2007 (our general education class at KSU) HIST 4425 Oral History (for the Public History certificate program) HIST 4499 History of American Higher Ed. (Senior Seminar Summer 2007) HIST 7710 Local History Research & Resources (graduate) Books: Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origins of the Suburban South: A Twentieth-Century History (Marietta: Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society, 2003). [Reviewed in Journal of Southern History 71 (May 2005): 479-81.] Cornerstones of Georgia History: Documents That Formed the State (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995). [Reviewed in Georgia Historical Quarterly 80 (spring 1996): 151.] Book Chapter: “Winning World War II in an Atlanta Suburb: Local Boosters and the Recruitment of Bell Bomber,” in The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s, ed. Philip Scranton (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001), 1-23. [Reviewed in Journal of Southern History 69 (May 2003): 474-75; and in Journal of American History 89 (December 2002): 1127-28.] Encyclopedia Entries: “History of Georgia,” in Encarta (1997) “Bell Bomber,” in New Georgia Encyclopedia (10/17/2003) “Cobb County,” in New Georgia Encyclopedia (2003, updated 2/21/2007) “James Vinson Carmichael,” in New Georgia Encyclopedia (5/14/2003) “Kennesaw State University,” in New Georgia Encyclopedia (2002; updated 2004; updated 2/21/2007) “Marietta,” in New Georgia Encyclopedia (2002; updated 9/30/2003) “Lockheed Martin” in New Georgia Encyclopedia (11/3/2006) Recent Professional Presentations: Organized and moderated a plenary session entitled “Lives of Historians” at the Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting, 7 April 2007 Delivered a paper, “Impact of Bell and Lockheed on the Culture of Cobb County during the Civil Rights Era,” Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting, 6 April 2007 Organized tour of Lockheed Martin plant for historians attending annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, 5 January 2007 Participated on a panel, “Oral History Class Project on History of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,” Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting, 8 April 2006 Commented on papers in Session on “Georgia Politics in the 1970s,” Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting, 7 April 2006 Gave the keynote address, “Diversity in the Suburbs: The Changing Face of Cobb County,” 4th Annual Suburban Conference, The New Face of Suburbia: Is It a Melting Pot,” sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University, 24 February 2006 Spoke on “Teaching Religious Studies at Public Colleges in the Bible Belt,” panel on religion in the South at the Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting, 9 April 2005 Spoke on “Integration of Schools in Cobb County, Georgia” at the Brown v. Board of Education Mini-Symposium, Kennesaw State University, 21 April 2004. Delivered a paper, “Bo Callaway and the Republican Resurgence of the 1960s,” Georgia History Consortium, Savannah, 10 February 2001. Delivered a paper, “The Georgia Republican Party in the 1960s” at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, Atlanta, 8-11 November 2000 Delivered a paper, “The Decline of Rural Georgia in the Writings of Terry Kay, Ferrol Sams, and Raymond Andrews” at the Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting, 15 April 2000 Addressed the annual meeting of the Niagara Aerospace Museum, Amherst, New York, 7 May 1999 Delivered a paper, “Winning the War in an Atlanta Suburb” at Second Wave of Southern Industrialization Conference, Georgia Tech, 5 June 1998. Delivered a paper, “The Goldwater and Callaway Campaigns and the Transformation of the Georgia Republican Party” at the Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting, 3 April 1998 Honors and Awards: 2004 Governor’s Award in the Humanities (Presented by Gov. Sonny Perdue and the Georgia Humanities Council)
1995 History Award, presented by Fielding Lewis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution 1994 Distinguished Teaching Award, Kennesaw State College
1987 Service Award, Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society Boards of Directors/Boards of Trustees:
1993-2006 Friends of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park 2005-2007 Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association Oral History Project: Director of Kennesaw State University Oral History Project, 1978-Present Current research project: Interviews with recipients of distinguished faculty awards at KSU. To date over 50 transcripts are online at the CETL Website: http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/teachrecipients.htm and KSU Archives Website: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/archives/html/Faculty_Oral_History/faculty_name_index.htm Center for Regional History & Culture Co-Director, Center for Regional History & Culture: The Center edited the 20th century history section of the New Georgia Encyclopedia, which went online in February 2004. We have sponsored a number of public programs and teacher workshops and work to promote a greater understanding of the history and culture of KSU’s large service area. Website: http://www.kennesaw.edu/research/crhc/ Professional Organizations: American Historical Association Organization of American Historians The Historical Society American Association for State & Local History Oral History Association Southern Historical Association Southern Legal History Society Georgia Association of Historians Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society Other Professional Service Activities: Evaluation Team: Served with fellow historians Gary Gallagher (University of Virginia), David Blight (Amherst College, currently Yale University), and Anne Bailey (Georgia College & State University) on a review team chosen by the Organization of American Historians and the National Park Service to do a two-day site visit and analysis of the interpretative programs at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park: 21-22 September 2000. Public Speeches: 291 speeches to campus and community groups (civic clubs, schools, churches, etc.) since 1995:
Total: 291 Statistics above include campus and community speeches since September 2003 to the following groups:
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