Founded: 1980
Full Time: 1
Part Time: 3
Budget: 108,101.00
Director: Samuel Hyde, Jr.
Assoc. Director: Charles Elliott
SLU 10730
Hammond, LA 70402
Telephone: 504/549-2151 FAX: 504/549-2306 E-Mail: lwagner@selu.edu
Research Areas:
The Center for Regional Studies, an affiliate of Southeastern Louisiana University's Department of History and Government and the College of Arts & Sciences, preserves and promotes the history and the cultures of the Florida parishes and southwestern Mississippi within state, national and international contexts through scholarly research, lectures and publishing.
Over one hundred and fifty separate archival collections document regional history with critical holdings on the area's farming, logging, railroading and martime industries. the Center's genealogical archives are complimented by Hungarian-, Italian-and African-American collections. Of particular interest are the Daunton Gibbs Collection of Washington Parish History and associated local Civil War era newspapers and the Carter Plantation Collection of documents, letters and newspapers concentrating primarily on Livingston Parish from the 1830's to the present day. Specialty areas include the James H. Morrison Papers, a collection spanning thirty years of congressional service, the Governor Jimmie Davis Collection, and the John F. Kennedy Assassination Papers, one of the nations largest academic collections of primary source documents on the assassination. Topics currently under active expansion include Plain Folks of the South, the Civil War in Louisiana, and Gulf Coast history. The Center maintains the Southeastern State University Archives and houses numerous faculty collections.
An extensive photographic collection, "Piney Woods People" depicts turn-of-the-century families and folkways. The Center maintains the Wiley H. Sharp, Jr. Southeastern Louisiana Indian Artifact Collection of some 6500 stone, ceramic, bone and shell specimens from various sites within the geographic regions served by Southeastern Louisiana University. Vintage maps, newspapers, census reports and oral histories complete the study of local and regional history.
The Center provides a research library pertaining to genealogy, local, state and regional history as well as Special Collections on martime history, archaeology and anthropology.
Areas of Expertise:
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
Subject to approval of the Director, photographic and archival reproduction is available. Finding guide to ethnicity holdings is currently in production.
The Center for Regional Studies sponsors the Deep Delta Civil War Syposium, the Plain Folk of the South Symposium, the Gulf South history and Humanities Conference, the James H. Morrison Lectures on Politics and Government and in the Spring of 1998 will begin publishing the Gulf South Historical Review.
Research Equipment:
Four Cameras
Two Copying Stands
Dark Room Enlarger
Camcorder
Tape Recorders
Transcriber
Computers
Slide Projector
Keywords:
0306000 Cultural Activities
0308000 Folk/Ethnic Studies
0309003 Economic History
0309011 Oral History
0309014 Social History
0309015 Urban History
0309042 Agricultural History
0309045 Cultural History
0309047 Historical Documents
0409001 Cartography