Dr. William G. Piston

Education

PhD, 1982, University of South Carolina

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

• U.S. History to 1877
• U.S. History since 1877
• Writing II: Historical Inquiry
• Civil War and Reconstruction
• The Civil War in the Ozarks
• Military History of the United States
• Independent Readings
• Internship in Public History

Graduate courses

• Historiography
• The Civil War and Reconstruction
• War and Conflict in the Twentieth Century
• U.S. Military History 1845-1865
• The Civil War Era
• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American History
• The Civil War in Missouri: The Use and Understanding of Sources
• Independent Readings
• Internship in Public History

Research and professional interests

• American military history
• The American Civil War, with emphasis on the war in Missouri

Awards and honors

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