Elliott's Faculty Page



Charles Nathan Elliott

Position: Instructor of History

Fields of Study: Louisiana History

Classes usually taught:

  • History 321 (Louisiana History)
  • History 322 (Practicum in Teaching Louisiana History)
  • Co-instructor of History 655 (Louisiana History Televised Graduate Seminar for Louisiana History Teachers)
  • Coordinator and co-instructor of History 698-1 (Teaching American History Graduate Summer Institute on “(Re)Discovering Louisiana”)
  • Coordinator and co-instructor of History 698-2 (Teaching American History Graduate Summer Institute on “(Re)Discovering American History”).

E-mail: cnelliott@southeastern.edu

Education: M.A. Southeastern Louisiana University, 1997, Graduate program, English literature, Louisiana State University, 1972-73, B.A. Louisiana State University, 1971

Awards:

  • William S. Coker Prize in Gulf South History, 1997

Publications
Books:

  • Louisiana History: A Correspondence Course Guide, Louisiana State University, (November) 2005. ed., with Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. and C. Howard Nichols, Carnivals and Conflicts: A Louisiana History Reader Revised 2nd edition (Whittier, 2004).
  • ed., with Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. and C. Howard Nichols, Carnivals and Conflicts: A Louisiana History Reader (Harcourt, 2000).

Films:

  • Director, The Manchac Swamp: Manmade Disaster in Search of Resolution, 30 minute format docu-drama funded by a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. Spring 2006
  • Director, Reluctant Americans: The West Florida Revolt, Completing the Louisiana Purchase, 30 minute format docu-drama on the West Florida Revolution of 1810, funded by the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Commission, a consortium of Florida Parishes tourism commissions and the Lieutenant Governor's Office. Premier at Fanfare, September 25, 2003 with showings throughout the Florida Parishes. Award of Excellence Winner: 2004 Berkeley Film Festival; 2004 Gold Aurora Winner, Aurora Awards for documentary films.
  • Director, Louisiana's Florida Parishes: Securing the Good Life from a Troubled Land, 30 minute documentary film on the history and cultures of the Florida Parishes from 1699 to present. Louisiana Public Broadcasting premier November 24, 2002 with continuing showings.

 

Articles and Entries:

  • “Samba Rebellion” entry in Jules Rodriquez, ed., The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion (forthcoming; Greenwood Press, 2007
  • “Louisiana: the Pelican State” entry in New World Book Encyclopedia (2005)
  • “Bringing Fourth the Morning: Paul Dufour's internationally renowned art right here in our own back yard, “ South Baton Rouge Journal (March 2005).
  • “A Geography of Power: The French and Indians in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699-1706,” in Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., ed., A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1699-2000. (LSU Press, October 2004).
  • “Bienville's English Turn Incident: Anecdotes Influencing History,” in Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., C. Howard Nichols, and Charles N. Elliott, eds., Carnivals andConflicts: A Louisiana History Reader (Whittier, 2004)
  • “Ivan Mestrovic: World-class Artist Right Here in Baton Rouge,” South Baton Rouge Journal (August 2004).
  • “Stone Children, Marble Men and Brazen Women: the Stories Behind Three Public Sculptures in South Baton Rouge,” South Baton Rouge Journal (August 2003).
  • “Bienville's English Turn Incident: Anecdotes Influencing History,” in Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., C. Howard Nichols, and Charles N. Elliott, eds., Carnivals and Conflicts: A Louisiana History Reader (Harcourt, 2000)
  • “Bienville's English Turn Incident: Anecdotes Influencing History,”Gulf South Historical Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, (Spring 1999)