Major Works
- Gulf Coast Album: A Journey in Historic Photographs 1899-2011 from New Orleans across the Mississippi Gulf Coast to Mobile (2011)
- Hurricanes of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: 3 Centuries of Destruction (2009)
- The Mississippi Gulf Coast: Portrait of a People: An Illustrated History (1985)
Biography of Charles L. Sullivan
Charles L. Sullivan is an archivist and historian from Natchez, Mississippi. He earned his bachelor and master degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi and acquired a year of post-graduate
work at the University of Mississippi. He taught history at the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf
Coast Community College, and he was also chairman of the Social Studies Department. He retired from
teaching in May 2006, becoming the college’s first professor emeritus. Since 2006, he has been the
archivist of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
Sullivan has published articles for New Orleans Magazine, Mississippi Magazine, and The Journal of Mississippi History. His books include Mississippi Gulf Coast: Portrait of a People (1985),
Hurricanes of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Three Centuries of Destruction (2009), and Gulf Coast Album: A Journey in Historic Photographs 1899-2011 from New Orleans across the Mississippi Gulf Coast to
Mobile (2011).
He is a member of Beauvoir Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Historical Society, and a member of the Gulf Coast Historical and Genealogical Society. In his spare time Mr. Sullivan avidly participates in Civil War re-enactments. He lives in Perkinston, Mississippi.