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BRIEF BIOGRAPHYEdward F. Haas, a native of New Orleans, is professor of history at Wright State University. He received a B. A. in history from Tulane University and Ph. D. in American history from the University of Maryland, College Park. His research specialty is the history of the modern South. He teaches courses in the history of the South, the American Civil War, World War II, modern American and American urban history. Dr. Haas has taught at the University of New Orleans, Tulane University and Centenary College of Louisiana. For ten years, he directed the Louisiana Historical Center, Louisiana State Museum. He is past president of the Louisiana Historical Association and the Greater New Orleans Archivists Association. He has additionally served on the boards of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Ohio Museums Association. On two occasions, he received the General L. Kemper Williams Award for outstanding work in Louisiana history. In 1973, he received the President's Award for the outstanding article in Louisiana History. In 1998, he was named a Fellow of the Louisiana Historical Association for his scholarship in Louisiana history and his service to the organization. In 1999 he received the Garnie McGinty Lifetime Meritorious Service Award from the Louisiana Historical Association. He is presently Victor H. and Margaret Mary "Sunny" Schiro Scholar at Tulane University. BOOKS Louisiana: A History (Wheeling, Illinois:
Harlan Davidson Inc., 1996, 2002) with Bennett H. Wall, Judith
K. Schafer and others
The Age of the Longs: Louisiana, 1928-1960 (Lafayette, LA.: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2001) In Search of Fundamental Law: Louisiana's Constitutions, 1812-1974 (Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies, 1993) [edited with Warren M. Billings] Political Leadership in a Southern City: New Orleans in the Progressive Era, 1896-1902 (Ruston, La.: McGinty Trust Monograph Series, 1988) DeLesseps S. Morrison and the Image of Reform: New Orleans Politics, 1946-1961 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974, 1986) Louisiana's Legal Heritage (Pensacola: Perdido Bay Press, 1983) [edited with an introduction] Louisiana's Black Heritage (New Orleans: Louisiana State Museum, 1979) [edited with Robert R. Macdonald and John R. Kemp] Louisiana: A Dissertation Bibliography (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1979) [edited with an introduction] Readings in Louisiana History (New Orleans: Louisiana Historical Association, 1978) [edited with Glenn Conrad and others]
ARTICLES"Huey Long and the Dictators," Louisiana History, 47 (Spring 2006) "'Don't Believe Any False Rumors . . . ': Mayor Victor H. Schiro, Hurricane Betsy, and Urban Myths," Louisiana History, 45 (Fall 2004) "The Expedient of Race: Victor H. Schiro, Scott Wilson and the New Orleans Mayoralty Campaign of 1962," Louisiana History, 42 (Winter 2001) "Political Continuity in the Crescent City: Toward an Interpretation of New Orleans Politics, 1874-1986," Louisiana History, 39 (Winter 1998) "DeLesseps Story Morrison," in Neil Larry Shumsky, ed. American Cities and Suburbs: An Encyclopedia, (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998) "My First Days in the White House: The Presidential Fantasy of Huey Pierce Long," in Glen Jeansonne, ed., Huey at 100: Centennial Essays on Huey P. Long (Ruston, La.: McGinty Trust Monograph Series, 1995) "Huey Pierce Long and Historical Speculation," The History Teacher, 27 (February 1994) "New Orleans in 1950: A View from the Past," Louisiana History, 35 (Winter 1994) "Robert Sidney Maestri," in Kenneth T. Jackson, ed., Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Nine, 1971-1975 (New York, 1994) "Museum Studies Programs Offered around Ohio," Museum Update, 14 (Summer 1993) "Huey Long and the Communists," Louisiana History, 32 (Winter 1991) "Victor H. Schiro, Hurricane Betsy and the 'Forgiveness Bill,'" Gulf Coast Historical Review, 6 (Fall 1990) "Dixiecrats," and "Urban Politics in the South" in William Ferris and Charles R. Wilson, ed. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, 1989) "Black Cat, Uncle Earl, Edwin and the Kingfish: The Wit of Modern Louisiana Politics," Louisiana History, 29 (Summer 1988) "John M. Parker," "Martin Behrman," "Louisiana Progressivism" in John Buenker and Edward R. Kantowicz, ed., Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 (Westport, Greenwood Press, 1988) "Walter Flower,""Charles Janvier,""Andrew McShane," "Robert S. Maestri," and "delesseps S. Morrison," in Glenn Conrad, ed., Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (Lafayette: Louisiana Historical Association, 1988) "Odyssey of a Manuscript Collection: Records of the Surveyor- General of Early Louisiana," Louisiana History, 27 (Winter 1986) "Guns, Goats and Italians: The Tallulah Lynching of 1899," Journal of the North Louisiana Historical Association, 13 (Summer 1982) "The Louisiana State Museum's Louisiana Historical Center" in Light Cummins and Glen Jeansonne, ed., A Guide to the History of Louisiana (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982) "Black Louisianians" in Light Cummins and Glen Jeansonne, ed., A Guide to the History of Louisiana (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982) "Depression And New Deal in Urban America," Journal of Urban History, 7 (August 1981) "Andrew McShane," "Arthur J. O'Keefe," "T. Semmes Walmsley," "Robert S. Maestri" and "deLesseps S. Morrison" in Melvin G. Holli and Peter d'A. Jones, ed., Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820-1980 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981) "John Fitzpatrick and Political Continuity in New Orleans, 1896-1899," Louisiana History, 22 (Winter 1981) "Federal Housing Administration" in David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman, ed., Encyclopedia of Southern History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979) "The Southern Metropolis, 1940-1976" in Blaine Brownell and David R. Goldfield, ed., The City in Southern History (New York: Kennikat Press, 1977) "DeLesseps S. Morrison and the Governorship: A Reassessment," Louisiana Studies, 15 (Summer 1976) "New Orleans on the Half-Shell: The Maestri Era, 1936-1946," Louisiana History, 13 (Summer 1972) ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS"New Orleans," Microsoft Encarta, 1999, Microsoft CD-ROM Last Updated 1/10/05 | |||||
