Hyde's Faculty Page
Sam Hyde 
Position: Director of the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies; Professor of History, Leon
Ford Endowed Chair in Regional Studies
Fields of Study: Old and New US South, Patterns of Rural Violence, Antebellum Society and Culture,
Southern Politics
Classes usually taught: Old US South, New US South, Colonial US, Graduate Seminar, Ancient China and East Asia, Modern China and East Asia, Local and Regional History
Office phone number: 985-549-2151
E-mail:shyde@selu.edu
Education: B.A., Tulane; M.A., University of New Orleans; Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Awards
- Emmy Award nomination for script writing "Storms: Louisiana and Nature's Wrath" episode number five of the Florida Parish Chronicles television program 2006
- Presidents Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research, Southeastern Louisiana University, 2001
- American Association for State and Local History Commendation for "Pistols and Politics", 1998
- Hammond Regional Arts Foundation, Award for Outstanding Achievements in Literature, 1999
- Newberry Foundation Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago, 1993
- Distinguished Dissertation Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Louisiana State University, 1993 (dissertation also selected as one of ten distinguished dissertations from among over two hundred university wide)
- T. Harry Williams Fellowship, Louisiana State University, 1991-1992
- Fulbright Fellowship for Overseas Study, 1989-1990
- Rotary Foundation Fellowship for Foreign Study, 1985-1986
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 - recipient Silver Medal New York International Independent Film Festival and Bronze Medal Aurora Film Festival
- "The Manchac Swamp: Manmade Disaster in Search of Resolution" 2006
- "American Crisis, American Shame: The National Consequence of Coastal Erosion" 2008
Publications: Books
- Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), paperback edition 1997, recipient AASLH commendation 1998
- Plain Folk of the South Revisited (editor/contributor, Baton Rouge: L.S.U. Press, 1997)
- Carnivals and Conflicts: A Louisiana History Reader (editor/contributor, New York: Harcourt, 2000)
- Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000 (editor/contributor, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003)
- A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes , 1699-2000 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, September 2004)
Publications: Articles
- "Discovering a Neglected Southern Subregion" in A Fierce
and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida
Parishes (Louisiana State University Press, September 2004) - "Plain Folk Reconsidered: Historiographical Ambiguity in Search of Definition" in
Journal of Southern History, Vol LXXI, No. 4, November 2005 - "Feuding is Our Means of Societal Regulation: Elusive Stability in Southeastern
Louisiana's Piney Woods, 1877-1900," forthcoming in Louisiana History
(Spring, 2007). - AA Threshold of Unobtainable Commitment: Irregular Operations in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1862-1865,@ in A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's Florida Parishes (Louisiana State University Press, September 2004)
- The Challenges and Expectations of Social Change in the Gulf South, 1866-2000,@ in Sunbelt Revolution (University Press of Florida, 2003)
- Plain Folk Yeomanry in the Antebellum South, in John B. Boles (ed.), Blackwells Companion to the American South (London: Blackwell's, 2001)
- "Historical Perspectives on the Common South," in Plain Folk of the South Revisited (Louisiana State University Press, fall 1997)
- "Backcountry Justice in the Piney Woods South," in Plain Folk of the South Revisited (Louisiana State University Press, fall 1997)
- "Mechanisms of Planter Power in Eastern Louisiana's Piney Woods," Louisiana History, XXXIX, No. 1 (Spring 1998)
- "Blood Feud: Violence and Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes," Cultural Vistas, IX, No. 2, (Summer 1998)
- "Power and Place: Gender, Greed, and the Creole French Elite," in Reviews in American History, September, 1998
- "Bushwhacking and Barnburning: Civil War Operations and the Florida Parishes Tradition of Violence," Louisiana History, XXXVI, No. 2 (Spring 1995).
- "Research Methods in Historical Archives," Origins, IX, No. 2 (Spring 1993).
- "Cultural Assimilation in Confederate New Orleans," Southeast Louisiana Historical Papers, XVII, 1993.
- "The Cultural Geography of Southeast Louisiana," Cultural Resources Management Report for Southeast Louisiana, 1988.
- "The Maritime History of the Lower Mississippi Valley," Maritime and Cultural Resources Planning Design for Southeast Louisiana, 1988.
Sample Presentations
- "The Relevance of the West Florida Revolt to Economic Development in the Florida Parishes" Hammond Rotary Club, January 2003
- "Sources of Opposition to the West Florida Revolt" Ponchatoula Kiwanis Club, January 2003
- "Understanding the Connection between History and Economic Development" Leadership Tangipahoa Seminar, February 2003
- "A Threshold of Unobtainable Commitment: The Civil War in Southeastern Louisiana", Denham Springs, La Kiwanis Club, February 2003
- "The Curious Connection of the West Florida Revolt and the Louisiana Purchase" Hammond Kiwanis Club, February 2003
- "The Louisiana Purchase as a Fulfillment of Jeffersonian Republicanism", Keynote Address, United Daughters of the Confederacy State Convention, Baton Rouge, La., May 2003
- "Developing an Identity for the West Florida Republic", Republic of West Florida Society Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, La., May 2003
- "The Changing Face of a Fragile Ecosystem", Annual Conservation Banquet, Florida Parishes Skeet and Conservation Association, Amite, La., August 2003
- "Sources of Opposition to the West Florida Revolt", West Florida Society Meeting, Baton Rouge, La., September 2003
- "The Violent Legacy of Louisiana's Florida Parishes", Canary Island Heritage Society, Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, La., September 2003
- Master of Ceremony, Film premier "Reluctant Americans: The West Florida Revolt, Completing the Louisiana Purchase", Columbia Theater, Hammond, La., Fanfare eve premier, September 2003
- Livingston Parish Premier "Reluctant Americans", Walker, La., October 2003
Keynote Address, Washington Parish Fair and Festival Commission, Franklinton, La., October 2003 - "Sources of Opposition to the West Florida Revolt", 22nd Annual Gulf South Historical Association Conference, Pensacola, Fl., October 2003
- "Genealogical Studies and Resources at SLU", Hammond Round Table, October 2003
- "St. Helena: A Divided Role in Rebellion, 1810", Greensburg, La., St. Helena Parish Tourist Commission Annual Meeting, October 2003
- "West Feliciana Capital of the Original Lone Star Republic" West Feliciana Parish Tourist Commission Annual Meeting, October 2003
- "Curious Aspects of the Civil Rights Struggle in Southeastern Louisiana", Louisiana Festival of the Book, State Capital Building, Baton Rouge, La., November 2003
- "Developing an Identity for Washington Parish", Washington Parish Genealogical Society Meeting, Franklinton, La., November 2003
- "Why Celebrate the West Florida Revolt", Reception Highlighting Unveiling of I-12 Commemorative Signs, 7 members State Legislative Delegation Present, Alumni Center, SLU, November 2003
- "Examining the Native American Cultures of Southeastern Louisiana", America Reads Program, Baton Rouge, La., November 2003
- "A Territory of Greatest Importance Sources of Support and Opposition to the West Florida Revolt, 1810", Foundation for Historic Louisiana, Premier Lecture Series, November 2003
- "Exploring and Understanding the History of Southeastern Louisiana", Presentation before 400 school children, Columbia Theater, Hammond, La., December 2003