Associate Professor
Phone: (239)590-7596
E-Mail: ecarlson@fgcu.edu
Office: Mod 1 - Office 34

Associate Professor, U.S. History

Ph.D., History, Texas Tech University, 1996
M.A., History, Texas Tech University, 1989
B.A., History, Texas Tech University, 1986

Research and Teaching Interests: Public History, Archival Management, Oral History, State and Local History, U.S. Military, U.S. Business/Economic, U.S. 20th Century, WWII Pacific, U.S. Commercial Aviation 1925-1945

Courses offered:

AMH 2010 U.S. History to 1877
AMH 2020 U.S. History since 1877
AMH 3201 The U.S. 1877-1929
AMH 4512 Diplomatic History of the US
AMH 6939 Seminar in American History
HIS 3065 Introduction to Public History
HIS 6067 Public History
HIS 6915 Research in Public History
HIS 6939 Seminar in Public History

Publications

"Shoot to Kill: Flexible Gunnery Training at Buckingham AAF, 1924-1945," in Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, Volume 16, March 2009, pp. 32-36.

"Post, Wiley (1898-1935)," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Historical Society, 2007 (Online).

"Carl Cromwell, Cromwell Airlines, and the Dawn of Commercial Aviation in West Texas, 1928-1930," in West Texas Historical Association Yearbook (2003), pp.89-105.

"Cabanatuan Raid," pp. 137-138, and "Rangers," pp. 505-506, in World War II In the Pacific: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2001).
 
Booklet: "Ellington Field: A Short History, 1917-1963," NASA/CR-1999-208921, February, 1999.
    
Chapter: "The Origins and Development of the Civil Aeronautics Authority/Board and the Economic Regulation of Domestic Airlines, 1938-41," in The New Deal and Public Policy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), pp. 245-269.
 
 
Recent conference presentations

"Shoot to Kill: Flexible Gunnery Training at Buckingham AAF, 1942-1945," Paper presented at the Florida Conference of Historians, Jacksonville, Florida, February 2008.

"Over Here:" World War I Pilot Training At Love Field," Paper presented at the 9th Annual Legacies Dallas History Conference, Dallas, January 2008.

"Learning to Fly in the Central Texas Skies: Rich Field, Waco and World War I Pilot Training," Paper presented at the Conference of Historic Aviation Writers XIII, Memphis, October 2007.

Service

Member, Board, Southwest Florida Museum of History Foundation
Faculty Senator, FGCU, 2007-2009
Faculty Co-Advisor, Dominican Republic Service Learning Trip, 2009