User:Skb8721
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[edit] Education & career
I have a Ph.D. and M.A. in History, and a B.A. in English, and I work as a professional historian and curator in a private archives. I have published two books about south Louisiana history, and I am working on two more books at present.
[edit] Fields of interest
My primary interests on Wikipedia tend to relate directly or indirectly to south Louisiana, and sometimes to military history, although I enjoy editing any articles that could use improvement.
[edit] Contributions
[edit] Articles & stubs
Below are articles/stubs that I originated, either by creating the initial article/stub from scratch or by deleting a pre-existing one and writing a new (or almost new) one in its place:
- Amru Sani, Jamaican singer and actress
- C. C. Adcock, south Louisiana musician
- Carl A. Brasseaux, south Louisiana historian
- Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, exclusive wine-tasting society
- Cotton factor (stub), nineteenth-century southern economic institution
- Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, cultural activist organization
- Esphyr Slobodkina (stub), author of children's book Caps for Sale
- Fernand Petiot (stub), bartender and inventor of the Bloody Mary
- Holt Collier (stub), Mississippi hunting guide and tracker
- Glenn R. Conrad, south Louisiana historian
- J. D. "Jay" Miller (stub), south Louisiana record producer
- James "Jimmy" Domengeaux, south Louisiana politician and cultural activist
- Jujiro Wada (stub), Japanese adventurer and entrepreneur
- Lewis William Walt (stub), U.S. Marine
- Maunsel White, south Louisiana businessman and pepper sauce inventor
- Military Order the Carabao, semi-secret U.S. military social club
- Rod Bernard, south Louisiana musician
- Richard Tregaskis, author of Guadalcanal Diary
- Swamp Pop, south Louisiana musical genre
- Walter Stauffer McIlhenny, U.S. Marine and businessman
[edit] My watchlist
Other articles that are on my watchlist include:
- Acadiana, south Louisiana region
- Avery Island, Louisiana, south Louisiana community and landmark
- Barry Jean Ancelet, south Louisiana folklorist and linguist
- Cajuns, south Louisiana ethnic group
- Caps for Sale, children's book
- Coonass, epithet applied to Cajuns
- Johnny Rebel (singer), south Louisiana racist musician
- Jungle Gardens, south Louisiana tourist attraction
- Magnolia, Mississippi, southwest Mississippi community
- Tabasco pepper, botanical variety
- Tabasco sauce, trademarked pepper sauce product
[edit] Achievements
Categories: Generation X Wikipedians | Wikipedians by alma mater: Texas A&M University | Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Wikipedian historians | Wikipedians in Louisiana | Wikipedians interested in history | Wikipedists interested in researching history | Wikipedians who are Cajuns | Wikipedians with BA degrees | Wikipedians with MA degrees | Wikipedians with PhD degrees | Wikipedian writers | WikiProject Louisiana members