David Pittman

Education:

East Carolina University, Greenville NC

Batchelor of Arts in History

Master of Arts in History

Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literature

Publication of thesis (January, 2008): Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, and Military Tactics in the Second Punic War (142 pgs)

Area of concentration is European history. Academic interests, teaching, and researching in Ancient History, Classical Literature, Early Christianity, Military History, Colonial American History, American Revolution, Antebellum America, American Civil War, Twentieth Century America, American Government, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Twentieth Century Europe, World War I, and World War II, and Current Events.

Language competency includes three years of university Latin and two years of university Greek. Latin works translated include Cicero’s Catilina Orations, Virgil’s Aeneid and Eclogues, excerpts from Caesar’s Gallic and Civil Wars, Cicero’s De re publica, Pliny’s Historia Naturalis, poems by Catullus, excerpt of The Life of Caesar by Suetonius, Horace’s Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Saeculare, and Res Gestae Divi Augusti (The Great Achievements of the Divine Augustus). Greek works translated include Sophocles’ Antigone and Homer’s Iliad (Books One and Five).

I am involved in the Boy Scouts (Troop 8) with First Baptist Church, an Eagle Scout which I achieved in 1997, and a member of Wilson Community Church. I enjoy traveling, visiting museums, going to the beach and the mountains, football, outdoor activities, swimming, target practicing, researching scholarly topics, and being involved in the community.

I currently serve as Wilson County's coordinator for North Carolina Council on the Holocaust in which I help and guide district social studies teachers on presenting and teaching the Holocaust using the latest resources and studies available.