SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE ECONOMIC, WORKFORCE, AND CULTURAL IMPACT February 9, 2010

Southeastern Louisiana University is an SREB Four-Year 3, Carnegie Master’s L College and University, and COC/SACS Level V Institution whose mission is “to lead the educational, economic, and cultural development of southeast Louisiana.” To fulfill its educational mission, Southeastern provides challenging and relevant undergraduate and graduate programs that meet regional and state needs. The university’s core values are Excellence, Caring, Community, Diversity, Integrity, Learning, Scholarship, and Service.

The objectives of the Department of History and Political Science with regard to undergraduate education are (1) to provide all students with general humanistic knowledge in the fields of history, political science, and philosophy; (2) to aid them through this knowledge to analyze and interpret problems and achievements of past and present societies; (3) to further their intellectual development through opportunities to think, to speak, and to write logically and analytically; (4) to prepare them to become dynamic citizens who understand the structure, powers, and procedures of national and state governments and have some knowledge of other world governments as well; and (5) to provide specific background training for such professions as law, journalism, government service, and teaching.

Additional objectives of the Department of History and Political Science with regard to graduate education are (1) to train students for careers in school teaching, government service, and business; (2) prepare students for doctoral studies in history.

The Department of History and Political Science offers the following baccalaureate degrees with a combined average of 400-500 undergraduate majors per year: • Bachelor of Arts in History • Bachelor of Arts in Political Science • Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies Education

The Department of History and Political Science offers the following undergraduate minors: • African-American Studies • History • International Studies • Philosophy • Political Science • Public History

The Department of History offers the following Master’s degree in the options specified with an average of 50-60 majors per year: • M.A. in History ƒ Thesis Option ƒ Non-Thesis Option ƒ Public History Option

IMPACT OF THE B.A. IN HISTORY

The B.A. in History provides majors with a broad Liberal Arts background that not only prepares them for a broad range of positions in the workforce but also equips them to be active, well- informed citizens. It also teaches majors how to continue learning after graduation and emphasizes that this is a life-long process, thereby providing a skill and an attitude that are valuable in any job. More particularly, all upper-level courses require extensive reading and multiple written assignments that are designed to teach students to read intelligently, think analytically, write clearly, accurately assess past trends, rationally predict future developments, and understand the real world.

Recently the B.A. in History program has begun emphasizing undergraduate research. One of the fruits of this emphasis is a 45-minute documentary film, Louisiana’s Forgotten Treasure: The Isleños, produced entirely by History major Samantha Perez and Communication major Joshua Robin for a special independent study class pairing students from these two majors to learn the art of documentary filmmaking. This film has been shown on opening night of the 2009 ‘Then and Now’ Fanfare History and Politics Lecture Series and in history classes at Southeastern and is scheduled to be shown on the Southeastern Channel, at the Louisiana Historical Association meeting, and in other academic venues.

In the fall semester 2009 there were 167 majors in the B.A. in History program.

For the five academic years 2004-05 to 2008-09 Southeastern Louisiana University has awarded 145 baccalaureate degrees in History (CIP code 540101), more than any other university in the University of Louisiana System and more than any university in the state except LSU (591) and UNO (168), according to the Board of Regents Inventory of Degree and Certificate Programs.

Among the respondents to the Alumni Survey 2006-07, 25% indicated that they were enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program. 25% indicated that they have completed a Master’s degree, 25% indicated that they completed a Doctoral degree, 25% indicated that they have taken graduate classes and/or plan to enroll in a graduate program, and 100% indicated that they are employed on a full-time basis.

IMPACT OF THE B.A. IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

The B.A. in Political Science provides majors with a broad Liberal Arts background that not only prepares them for a broad range of positions in the workforce but also equips them to be active, well-informed citizens. It also teaches majors how to continue learning after graduation and emphasizes that this is a life-long process, thereby providing a skill and an attitude that are valuable in any job. More particularly, all upper-level courses require extensive reading and multiple written assignments that are designed to teach students to read intelligently, think analytically, write clearly, accurately assess past trends, rationally predict future developments, and understand the real world.

Political Science majors have completed internships and/or secured post-internship employment in the offices of the following elected officials (among others): • U.S. Senator • U.S. Senator • U.S. Representative Richard Baker • U.S. Representative • U.S. Representative • U.S. Representative • U.S. Representative Billy Tauzin • U.S. Representative David Vitter • Governor Mike Foster • Governor Bobby Jindal • State Representative A. G. Crowe • State Representative Henry Powell • State Representative Steve Pugh • Tangipahoa Parish District Attorney Scott Perrilloux

In the fall semester 2009 there were 134 majors in the B.A. in Political Science program.

For the five academic years 2004-05 to 2008-09 Southeastern Louisiana University has awarded 88 baccalaureate degrees in Political Science (CIP code 451001), which in the University of Louisiana System ranks behind Nichols (153) and just behind Louisiana Tech (100) and the UL- Lafayette (97) but well ahead of Northwestern (51), Grambling (42), McNeese (35), and UL- Monroe (21). However, for the last two academic years 2007-08 to 2008-09 Southeastern ranks third (35) behind Nicholas (57) and ULL (42) and ahead of Louisiana Tech (33), Grambling (23), McNeese (17), Northwestern (14), ULM (3).

Among the respondents to the Alumni Survey 2006-07, 20% indicated that they were enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program, 20% indicated that they have completed a Master’s degree, 60% indicated that they have taken graduate classes and/or plan to enroll in a graduate program, and 100% indicated that they are employed on a full-time basis.

IMPACT OF THE B.A. IN SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION

The B.A. in Social Studies Education provides majors with a broad Liberal Arts background and an intensive grounding in History, Political Science, Economics, Geography, and Sociology that not only prepares them to be effective in the classroom but also equips them to be active, well- informed citizens and to show their own students how to do likewise. It also teaches majors how to continue learning after graduation and emphasizes that this is a life-long process, thereby providing a skill and an attitude that are valuable in any job. More particularly, all upper-level courses require extensive reading and multiple written assignments that are designed to teach students to read intelligently, think analytically, write clearly, accurately assess past trends, rationally predict future developments, and understand the real world.

Currently graduates of the program who obtain teaching positions in Louisiana Region II are immediately eligible to participate in a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grant program administered by the Tangipahoa Parish School System and Southeastern Louisiana University in which qualified Social Studies teachers can—at not cost—earn CLU’s (continuing learning units) to become Highly Qualified under the No Child Left Behind Act and earn graduate credit leading to the MA in History.

The B.A. in Social Studies Education is a sound program producing top quality graduates. It received National Council for Social Studies approval in most recent NCATE review, has a100% passage rate on PRAXIS II by Social Studies majors since 2001, and though Southeastern offers a guarantee to retrain any teachers found deficient in the classroom, it never has had to do so with any Social Studies Education graduate.

In the fall semester 2009 there were 143 majors in the B.A. in Social Studies Education program.

For the five academic years 2004-05 to 2008-09 Southeastern Louisiana University has awarded 69 baccalaureate degrees in Social Studies Education (CIP code 131318), more than any other university in the state, 23% of all such degrees in the state, and 35% of those in the University of Louisiana System, according to the Board of Regents Inventory of Degree and Certificate Programs.

Among the respondents to the Alumni Survey 2006-07, 25% indicated that they were enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program, 25% indicated that they have completed a Master’s degree, 50% indicated that they have taken graduate classes and/or plan to enroll in a graduate program, and 100% indicated that they are employed on a full-time basis.

IMPACT OF THE M.A. IN HISTORY

The MA in History program is the only one available to many southeast Louisiana residents who are teachers (offering all classes at night or in summer), who are employed full time (allowing students to pursue a degree locally on a part-time basis), or who are capable of graduate work but unable to attend more distant and expensive graduate programs. Most graduate students in the program are from the region.

Graduate programs in history at regional institutions typically serve individuals in the area who do not have the option of long distance travel, usually because of work and family responsibilities. In history, many of these graduate students are secondary education teachers, wishing to pursue a graduate degree to improve their teaching ability. As evidence, Southeastern’s history MA program, in partnership with Tangipahoa Parish School District and 13 other Region II LEA’s, has obtained 2 US Department of Education Teaching American History Grants for 2004-10 worth $1.9 million and is a highly competitive applicant for a third $1.7 million grant for 2009-14. Since fall 2004, 4 TAH-funded teachers have earned the MA, 9 are approaching completion, 84 have become highly qualified under No Child Left Behind, and participants collectively have earned over 900 graduate credit hours and over 20,000 hours of continuing learning units. TAH has allowed the program to build a larger, lasting clientele among teachers. The MA in History program also supports the Master of Education program (50 enrolled in the program’s graduate classes since Fall 2003), Plus Thirty Beyond Masters (129), and Add-On Certification (45), as well as the MA in Teaching program (16 Social Studies graduates since Fall 2003). Working in conjunction with the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies, many History faculty and graduate students produce scholarship and participate in outreach programs that preserve the unique history of the Florida Parishes of Louisiana (also known as the Northshore). For example, faculty and graduate students in the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies are collaborating with the Department of Biological Sciences on EPA-funded environmental history projects worth $121,000 so far, producing among other things two critically acclaimed documentary films, The Manchac Swamp: Manmade Disaster in Search of Resolution and American Crisis, American Shame: The National Consequences of Coastal Erosion. Other faculty and graduate students are producing a documentary, Louisiana During World War II, the first in a planned six-part series, and Louisiana’s Wars, covering the period from the colonial wars to the present, which will be made available to area schools. In the fall semester 2009 there were 43 majors in the M.A. in History program

The program produces highly qualified schoolteachers; university faculty; and public historians whose work supports historic tourism, preservation, and research (archives, historic sites, museums); and PhD candidates. For example, of 26 completers from 2007-09, 10 are schoolteachers, 4 are PhD candidates, 5 are “stopped out” while earning money for and/or applying to PhD programs, 3 are working in fields related to History, 3 are working in other fields, and 1 is retired.

• Social Studies Teachers 2007 Albert Patterson Social Studies Teacher, East Baton Rouge Parish 2007 Robin Pringle Social Studies Teacher, St Tammany Parish 2008 Mary Collier Social Studies Teacher, St Tammany Parish 2008 Brad Goudeau Social Studies Teacher, East Baton Rouge Parish 2009 William Decoux Social Studies Teacher, Mississippi 2009 Brenda Gainey Social Studies Teacher, Tangipahoa Parish 2009 Cindy Grimmer Social Studies Teacher, East Baton Rouge Parish 2009 Jennifer Masters Social Studies Teacher, Mississippi 2009 Tiffany Portie Social Studies Teacher, East Baton Rouge Parish 2009 Rita Robichaux Social Studies Teacher, St John Parish

• PhD Candidates 2007 Sean Chick PhD in History Program, University of Kentucky 2008 Lauren Doughty PhD in History Program, Louisiana State University 2009 Amanda Barrilleaux PhD in Geography Program, Louisiana State University 2009 William Schulz PhD in History and Political Science Programs, LSU

• “Stopped Out” On Completion of MA to Earn Money for and/or Apply to PhD Programs 2007 Dustin Cotton Administrative Assistant, Dept of English, Southeastern 2007 Rod Williams N/A 2009 Sheri Gibson N/A 2009 Thomas Ridgedell Applicant for PhD in History Program, LSU 2009 Denny Thweatt N/A

• Other—Fields Related to History 2007 Michael Nettles Academic Advisor, Ctr Student Excellence, Southeastern 2007 Kelley Sellers Public Historian, Goodwin & Associates, 2009 Holly Furlow Recent graduate, interviewing for history-related jobs

• Other—Fields Not Related to History 2007 King Robinson Retired 2008 Josh Dyer Program Coordinator, EBR Parish Housing Authority 2009 Amanda Durbin N/A 2009 William Stewart Wal-Mart, Hammond

IMPACT OF THE DEPARTMENT AS A WHOLE

The Department of History and Political Science has research affiliations on campus with: • Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies • Southeast Social Science Research Center

The Department of History and Political Science has professional affiliations off campus with: • African American Culture Museum (Donaldsonville) • Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum (Madisonville) • Pearl River and Honey Island Swamp Museum (Pearl River) • Pioneer Store Museum (Bogalusa) • Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum (Hammond) • Varnado Store Museum (Franklinton) • West Florida Republic Museum (Jackson)

The Department of History and Political Science and the Tangipahoa Parish School System have the following partners for their U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grant. • Historic New Orleans Collection • Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum • Louisiana Department of Education Region II Service Center • Louisiana State Archives • Louisiana State Museum–Baton Rouge and New Orleans • Louisiana State Rural Life Museum • Magnolia Mound Plantation • National World War II Museum • Southeast Louisiana Historical Association • United States Presidential Library and Museum—George H. W. Bush • United States Presidential Library and Museum—James E. Carter • United States Presidential Library and Museum—William J. Clinton • United States Presidential Library and Museum—Lyndon B. Johnson • United States Presidential Library and Museum—Harry S. Truman

The Department of History and Political is partnered with the following school systems for the same TAH grant: • Central Community School System • City of Baker School System • City of Bogalusa School System • East Baton Rouge Parish School System • East Feliciana Parish School System • Iberville Parish School System • Livingston Parish School System • Pointe Coupee Parish School System • St. Helena Parish School System • St. Tammany Parish School System • Tangipahoa Parish School System (applicant) • Washington Parish School System • West Baton Rouge Parish School System • West Feliciana Parish School System • Zachary Community School System

Faculty in the Department of History and Political Science have published the following books (with numerous others forthcoming), contributing to scholars and the public’s knowledge of world, national, state, and local history, politics, and culture:

• Bell, Jeffrey (and Colebrook, Claire). Deleuze and History. University of Edinburgh Press, 2009.

• Bell, Jeffrey. Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture, and the Scottish Enlightenment. University of Edinburgh Press, 2009.

• Bell, Jeffrey. Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference. University of Toronto Press, 2006).

• Bell, Jeffrey. The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism. University of Toronto Press, 1998.

• Dranguet, Charles, and Heleniak, Roman. Backdoor to the Gulf—An American Paradise Lost: The Pass Manchac Region, 1699-2008. 2008.

• Finley, Keith. Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights 1938-1965. Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

• Forrest, Barbara (and Gross, Paul). Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. Oxford University Press, 2004.

• Gonzalez-Perez, Margaret. Literature of Protest: The Franco Years. University Press of America, 1998.

• Gonzalez-Perez, Margaret. Women and Terrorism: Female Activity in Domestic and International Terror Groups. Routledge, 2008.

• Groene, Bertram. Antebellum Tallahassee. Florida Heritage Foundation, 1981.

• Groene, Bertram. Pike: A Fortress in the Wetlands. Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 1988.

• Groene, Bertram. Tracing Your Civil War Ancestors. Ballantine Books, 1973.

• Heleniak, Roman. Soldiers of the Law: The Louisiana State Police. Josten’s, 1980.

• Heleniak, Roman, and Hewitt, Lawrence. The Confederate High Command. White Mane Publishing Company, 1990.

• Heleniak, Roman, and Hewitt, Lawrence. Leadership During the Civil War. White Mane Publishing Company, 1992.

• Hewitt, Lawrence. Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi. Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

• Hyde, Samuel. A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana’s Florida Parishes 1699-2000. Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

• Hyde, Samuel. Plain Folk of the South Revisited. Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

• Hyde, Samuel. Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes 1810-1899. Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

• Hyde, Samuel. Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South 1866-2000. University Press of Florida, 2003.

• Hyde, Samuel. A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country: The Civil War Reminiscences of a Union General. Louisiana University State University Press, 2009.

• Hyde, Samuel, and Finley, Keith. One of the Prettiest Spots I Have Seen: Politics, Industry and the Destruction of the Manchac Swamp Ecosystem. Environmental Protection Agency, 2007.

• Hyde, Samuel; Nicholas, C. Howard; and Elliott, Charles, Carnivals and Conflicts: A Louisiana History Reader. Whittier Publications, 2001. 2nd edition, 2004.

• Jackson, Joy. New Orleans in the Gilded Age: Politics and Urban Progress 1880-1896. Louisiana State University Press, 1969.

• Jackson, Joy. Where the River Runs Deep: The Story of a Mississippi River Pilot. Louisiana State University Press, 1993.

• Kearsley, Harold. Maritime Power and the Twenty-First Century. Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1992.

• Kurtz, Michael. The Challenging of America 1920-1945. Forum Press, 1986.

• Kurtz, Michael. Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian’s Perspective. University of Tennessee Press, 1982. 2nd edition, 1993.

• Kurtz, Michael. The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy. University of Kansas Press, 2006.

• Kurtz, Michael. Louisiana Since the Longs: 1960 to Century’s End. Center for Louisiana Studies, 1998.

• Kurtz, Michael (and People, Morgan). Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics. Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

• Kurtz, Michael (and others). Louisiana: A History. Harlan Davidson, 1984. 2nd edition, 1990. 3rd edition, 1997. 4th edition, 2002. 5th edition, 2008.

• Laver, Harry. Citizens More Than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic. University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

• Laver, Harry (and Matthews, Jeffrey). The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell. University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

• Nichols, Howard. Mandeville on the Lake: A Sesquicentennial Album 1840-1940. St Tammany Historical Society, 1990.

• Nichols, Howard. Tangipahoa Crossings: Excursions into Tangipahoa History. Moran Publishing Corporation, 1979.

• Pearlstein, Richard. The Mind of the Political Terrorist. Scholarly Resources, 1991.

• Petrakis, Peter (and Eubanks, Cecil). Eric Voegelin’s Dialogue with the Postmoderns: Searching for Foundations. University of Missouri Press, 2004.

• Price, Benjamin. Nursing Fathers: American Colonists’ Conception of English Protestant Kingship, 1688-1776 (Lexington Books, 1999).

• Robison, William (and Fritze, Ronald). Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England (Greenwood Press, 2002).

• Robison, William (and Fritze, Ronald). Historical Dictionary of Stuart England (Greenwood Press, 1996).

• Romero, Sidney. My Fellow Citizens: The Inaugural Addresses of Louisiana’s Governors. Center for Louisiana Studies, 1980.

• Romero, Sidney. Religion in the Rebel Ranks. University Press of America, 1983.

• Sanders, Randy. Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race. University Press of Florida, 2002.

• Traver, Andrew. The Opuscula of William of Saint-Amour: The Minor Works of 1255- 1256. Aschendorff Verlag, 2003.

• Traver, Andrew (and others). Quaestiones super libros Perihermenias Aristotelis. The Franciscan Institute, 2004.

• Traver, Andrew (and others). Quaestiones super secundum et tertium libros De anima Aristotelis. The Franciscan Institute, 2006.

Faculty in the Department of History and Political Science also have published individual chapters in edited collections from the following presses (among others): • American Institute of Biological Sciences • Beacham Publishing • Blackwell • Brill • Center for Louisiana Studies • Diversion Press • Edinburgh University Press • Fitzroy Dearborn • Greenwood Publishing • Harcourt Inc. • Louisiana State University Press • M. E. Sharpe • MIT Press • Oxford University Press • Palgrave Macmillan • Prometheus Books • Routledge • Salem Press • University of Georgia Press • University of Kentucky Press • University of Missouri Press • University of Tennessee Press • University Press of Florida • University Press of Kansas • Vanderbilt University Press

Faculty in the Department of History and Political Science have published articles and reviews in the following professional journals (among others): • Academe • Academic Library Book Review • Albion • American Reference Book Annual • American Review of Politics • Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge • Archivum Franciscanum Historicum • ATINER • Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River • Choice • Church and State • Clio • Continuity and Change • Criminal Justice History • CRM: Journal of Heritage Stewardship • Cultural Vistas • East Texas Historical Journal • Eighteenth Century Bibliography • English Historical Review • Environmental Reviews • Film and Philosophy • Florensia • Florida Historical Quarterly • Fotogenia • Franciscan Studies • Free Inquiry • Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology • Gulf South Historical Review • Historian • Historical Journal • Historical Research • History of Universities • History Reviews of New Books • Integrative and Comparative Biology • International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Science • International Social Science Review • Journal of American Ethnic History • Journal of Church and State • Journal of Ecclesiastical History • Journal of Military History • Journal of the Mississippi River Valley • Journal of Modern History • Journal of Peace Research • Journal of Politics • Journal of the Society of Archivists • Journal of Southern History • Justice System Journal • Lamar Journal for the Humanities • Legislative Studies Quarterly • Library Journal • Louisiana History • Manuscripta • Mariner’s Mirror • Micromega • Missouri Historical Review • Natural History • Ohio Valley History • Origins • Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly • Parliamentary History • Philo • Police Benevolent Association Journal • Political Science Quarterly • Proceedings of the Conference on Science and Society • Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Education • Quarterly Journal of Ideology • Quarterly Review of Biology • Regional Dimensions • Register of the Kentucky Historical Society • Renaissance and Reformation • Renaissance Quarterly • Reports of the National Center for Science Education • Review of Policy Research • Reviews in American History • Science and Theology News • Seventeenth Century News • Sixteenth Century Journal • Skeptical Inquirer • Southeast Louisiana Historical Papers • Southeastern Biology • Southeastern Magazine • Southeastern Political Review • Southern History • Southern Journal of Philosophy • Synthese • Teachers College Record • The Textbook Letter • Trends in Biochemical Sciences • Washington University Law Quarterly • Zygon: The Journal of Religion and Science

Faculty (Dr Samuel Hyde and others) have produced the following films: • An Unforgotten Silence: Camp Moore, the Confederate Base (1994 • Louisiana’s Florida Parishes: Securing the Good Life from a Troubled Land (2001) • Reluctant Americans: The West Florida Revolt, Completing the Louisiana Purchase (2003) • The Manchac Swamp: Manmade Disaster in Search of a Resolution (2006) • American Crisis, American Shame: The National Consequence of Coastal Erosion (2008) • Florida Parishes Chronicles (quarterly Southeastern Channel program since 2005)

Faculty have presented scholarly papers at the following professional conferences (among others): • American Anthropological Association • American Association for the Advancement of Science • American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies • American Historical Association • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology • Center for Inquiry Science and Public Policy Conference • Conference on Missouri Environmental and Cultural History • Eastern Historical Geography Association • Environmental Protection Agency Pontchartrain Basin Research Program • Gulf South Historical Association • International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences • Lessons and Legacies Conference • Louisiana Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Scholars • Louisiana Council for Social Studies • Louisiana Historical Association • Mid-America Conference on History • Midwest Conference on British Studies • Midwest Political Science Association • Missouri Conference on History • National Holocaust Museum Silberman Seminar • North American Conference on British Studies • Organization of American Historians • Pioneer America Society • Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America • Scottish Association for the Study of America • Sixteenth Century Studies Conference • Society for American City and Regional Planning History • Southeast Renaissance Conference • Southern Conference on British Studies • Southern Historical Association • Southern Political Science Association • Southwest Historical Association • Southwest Political Science Association • Southwest Social Sciences Association • Teaching American History National Directors Meeting • Texas Science Educators Leadership Association • Texas State Historical Association • Western Conference on British Studies • Western Political Science Association

The Department of History and Political sponsors the following lectures each year. Non- university attendees patronize local restaurants and businesses (with the exception of the Christwood Series), and the lectures contribute to the overall intellectual life of the community and provide important extracurricular sources of education to students. Estimated attendance is given in brackets for each lecture/series. • Christwood Arts and Lectures Series [1500] • Constitution Day Lecture (September 17) [200] • Then and Now—Fanfare History and Politics Lecture Series (October 1-31) [2000] • Veterans Day Lecture (November 11) [200] • Black History and Politics Lecture Series (February 1-28) [400] • Women’s History Month Lecture Series (March 1-31) [1000] • Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture (April) [200] • Deep Delta Civil War Symposium (June) [150]

The Department’s affiliate, the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies (directed by Dr Samuel Hyde) sponsors the following lectures each year: • Leon Ford History Lecture [200] • James H. Morrison Lecture on Politics and Government [200]

Faculty in the Department of History and Political Science have presented invited lectures to the following civic groups, historical societies, libraries, and universities (among others): • Acadiana Medieval Faire Teachers Workshop • America Reads Program • American Association of University Women • Amite Rotary Club • Ascension Parish Library • Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana • Assumption Parish Library • Baton Rouge Civil War Roundtable • California State University–Fullerton • Canary Island Heritage Society • Centenary College • Chicago Civil War Roundtable • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory • Daughters of the American Revolution • Delta State University • Denham Springs Kiwanis Club • East Baton Rouge Parish Library • Florida Parishes Skeet and Conservation Society • Florida State University • Foundation for Historic Louisiana • Ghent University, Belgium • Hammond Rotary Club • Hammond Round Table • Jefferson Parish Library • Kansas State University • Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum • Leadership Tangipahoa Seminar • Livingston Library Association • Livingston Parish Historical Society • Louisiana Academy of Sciences • Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities • Louisiana Festival of the Book • Louisiana State University • Louisiana State University–Shreveport • Luca Coscioni Association, Belgium • McNeese State University • Memphis Free Thought Alliance • Michigan State University • National Science Teachers Association • New Orleans Civil War Roundtable • Northern Kentucky University • Pennington Biomedical Center • Ponchatoula Kiwanis Club • Renaissance Living History Center • Republic of West Florida Society • Runnels High School • Rutgers University • Southeast Louisiana Historical Association • St Helena Parish Tourist Commission • St Tammany Historical Association • St Tammany Parish Leadership Conference • St Tammany Parish Library • Sons of Confederate Veterans • Southern Baptist Convention • Southern Illinois University • Southern Methodist University • SUNY-Oswego Warren Steinkraus Lectures on Human Ideals Series • Tangipahoa Parish Library • Texas A&M College of Science and Technology Distinguished Lecture Series • Tufts University Free Thought Society • Tulane University • Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge • Unitarian Universalist Church, Columbus, Indiana • United Daughters of the Confederacy • United States Department of Education Teaching American History Grant Workshops • United States War of 1812 Society • University of Louisiana–Monroe • University of Minnesota • University of New Orleans • University of North Texas • University of Puget Sound • Washington Parish Fair and Festival Commission • Washington Parish Genealogical Society • Washington Parish Library • West Baton Rouge Parish Library • West Feliciana Parish Library • West Feliciana Parish Tourist Commission • West Florida Society

Faculty hold positions on the following professional boards (among others): • Foundation for Historic Louisiana • Gulf South Historical Association • Holocaust Education Foundation • Hungarian Studies Association • Louisiana Coalition for Science • Louisiana Historical Association • Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Commission • National Center for Science Education • Society for Military History • Southeast Louisiana Historical Association • Southeastern Institute for Global and Domestic Development • Southern Studies Editorial Board • Southwest Historical Association • United Federation of College Teachers

Faculty hold positions in the following national and local civic organizations (among others): • Americans United For Separation of Church and State • Arphadhon Hungarian Settlement Cultural Association • Big Brothers and Sisters • CASA • Habitat for Humanity • Hyer-Cate Neighborhood Association • Keeping Hammond Beautiful • New Orleans Secular Humanist Association • Olde Town Slidell Revitalization Committee

Faculty have received the following grants and honors (among others): • Jeffrey Bell 2007 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Edinburgh • Charles Dranguet 2007 EPA Grant for Manchac Swamp Historical Research $54,000 • Barbara Forrest 1998 Elected to Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, LSU Chapter 1998 Friend of Darwin Award, National Center for Science Education 1999 Alex Allain Intellectual Freedom Award, Louisiana Library Association 2004 Ben Smith Civil Liberties Award, American Civil Liberties Union, Louisiana 2006 Humanist of the Year Award, New Orleans Secular Humanist Association 2006 American Society for Cell Biology Public Service Award 2007 Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry 2009 American Humanist Association, Humanist Pioneer Award • Samuel Hyde 1993 Newberry Foundation Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago 1998 American Association for State and Local History Award for Pistols and Politics 1999 Hammond Regional Arts Fdn Award for Outstanding Achievements in Literature 2003 Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism Grant $37,000 2003 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Grant $12,500 2005 Environmental Protection Agency Grant $60,500.00 2005 Silver Medal New York Int’l Independent Film Festival for Reluctant Americans 2007 Emmy Award nomination for script-writing for Florida Parish Chronicles 2007 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Grant $63,000 2009 Gold Medal NY Int’l Indep Film Festival for American Crisis, American Shame 2009 Bronze Medal Three Rivers Film Festival for American Crisis, American Shame • William B. Robison 1988 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (co-author) $100,000 2004-07 U.S. Dept of Education Teaching American History Grant (co-author) $999,000 2007-10 U.S. Dept of Education Teaching American History Grant (co-author) $895,000 • Andrew Traver 2007-08 Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS Grant $40,000 Co-author of numerous NEH Grants for the Duns Scotus Project

Faculty in the Department of History and Political Science participate in Study Abroad programs in the following countries. • Austria • China • Costa Rica • Ecuador • France • Germany • Italy • Spain • United Kingdom (programs in England and Scotland)

Faculty in the Department of History and Political Science have served as expert witnesses in civil and criminal trials, appeared on numerous national and local television and radio programs (including programs on ABC, CBS, CNN, the History Channel, NBC, and PBS), been interviewed for numerous national and local magazines and newspapers, provided readers’ comments for scholarly manuscripts, and written blurbs for newly published books.

Faculty in the Department of History and Political Science administer and serve as judges for the Region VIII Social Studies Fair and serve as judges for the Literary Rally.

Faculty in the Department of History and Political Science serve as sponsors for both the College Democrats and the Young Republicans.