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==Teaching and research==​

==Teaching and research==​

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After completing her graduate degrees, Eakin began what resulted in a 25-year teaching career at Louisiana State University at Alexandria. It had been established in 1960 as a [[junior college]], and later developed as a four-year institution. In an interview with ''The Town Talk,''  Patsy K. Barber, an LSUA colleague, recalled Eakin as "a master teacher [who] researched, she knew her topic and knew how to place her topic into the larger setting. She could hold you spellbound. The creative ideas just spilled out."<ref name=adtt/> Barber and Eakin collaborated on several books about the history of Rapides Parish and Lecompte.<ref name=adtt/>​

After completing her graduate degrees, Eakin began a 25-year teaching career at Louisiana State University at Alexandria. It had been established in 1960 as a junior college, and later developed as a four-year institution. In an interview with ''The Town Talk,''  Patsy K. Barber, an LSUA colleague, recalled Eakin as "a master teacher [who] researched, she knew her topic and knew how to place her topic into the larger setting. She could hold you spellbound. The creative ideas just spilled out."<ref name=adtt/> Barber and Eakin collaborated on several books about the history of Rapides Parish and Lecompte.<ref name=adtt/>​

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Eakin's best-known work is an annotated version of an 1853 slave narrative by Solomon Northup: ''Twelve Years a Slave—And Plantation Life in the Antebellum South.'' She co-edited the work with historian Joseph Logsdon;<ref name="Revival">{{cite web|url=http://lsupress.org/books/detail/twelve-years-a-slave/ |title='12 Years a Slave' prompts effort to recognize work of UNO historian in reviving tale |publisher=http://www.nola.com |date= |accessdate=2013-09-27}}</ref> together they annotated the account, retracing Northrup's journey and adding maps and other documentation. Their edition of ''Twelve Year a Slave'' was published in 1968 by LSU Press.<ref name="LSU Press">{{cite web|url=http://lsupress.org/books/detail/twelve-years-a-slave/ |title=Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup |publisher=http://lsupress.org/ |date= |accessdate=2013-09-26}}</ref> Northup was a free blackfrom Saratoga, [[New York]], who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, and transported from [[Washington, D.C.]], to Louisiana.<ref name=b&n12yrs>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/twelve-years-a-slave-solomon-northup/1100059752?ean=9780807151457|title=Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup: 9780807151457 NOOK Book (eBook) Barnes & Noble|publisher=Barnesandnoble.com llc|accessdate=September 9, 2013}}</ref> The book is considered one of the best firsthand accounts of slave life.<ref name=adtt/>​

Eakin's best-known work is an annotated version of an 1853 slave narrative by Solomon Northup: ''Twelve Years a Slave—And Plantation Life in the Antebellum South.'' She co-edited the work with historian Joseph Logsdon;<ref name="Revival">{{cite web|url=http://lsupress.org/books/detail/twelve-years-a-slave/ |title='12 Years a Slave' prompts effort to recognize work of UNO historian in reviving tale |publisher=http://www.nola.com |date= |accessdate=2013-09-27}}</ref> together they annotated the account, retracing Northrup's journey and adding maps and other documentation. Their edition of ''Twelve Year a Slave'' was published in 1968 by LSU Press.<ref name="LSU Press">{{cite web|url=http://lsupress.org/books/detail/twelve-years-a-slave/ |title=Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup |publisher=http://lsupress.org/ |date= |accessdate=2013-09-26}}</ref> Northup was a free blackfrom Saratoga, [[New York]], who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, and transported from [[Washington, D.C.]], to Louisiana.<ref name=b&n12yrs>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/twelve-years-a-slave-solomon-northup/1100059752?ean=9780807151457|title=Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup: 9780807151457 NOOK Book (eBook) Barnes & Noble|publisher=Barnesandnoble.com llc|accessdate=September 9, 2013}}</ref> The book is considered one of the best firsthand accounts of slave life.<ref name=adtt/>​

Eakin also worked as an archivist for the Louisiana State Archives and Records Service in Baton Rouge. With her sister, Manie L. Culbertson, Eakin published ''Louisiana: The Land and Its People,'' (1986), a textbook used in junior high classes of Louisiana history.<ref name=clamar/> Another of her works is ''Avoyelles Parish: Crossroads of Louisiana''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/sue-eakin|title=Sue Eakin: Barnes & Noble|publisher=Barnesandnoble.com llc|accessdate=September 9, 2013}}</ref>  As an educator and a researcher, Eakin was responsible for conducting, or sending students into the field to conduct more than four hundred oral history interviews documenting various aspects of Louisiana history, culture and folklife.  These recorded audio interivcews are now archived at the [[Louie B. Nunn]] Center for Oral History at the [[University of Kentucky]] in Lexington.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org./collections/sue-eakin-louisiana-oral-history-collection|title=Sue Eakin Louisiana Oral History Collection]|publisher=Kentuckyoralhistory.org|accessdate=October 26, 2009}}</ref>​

Eakin also worked as an archivist for the Louisiana State Archives and Records Service in Baton Rouge. With her sister, Manie L. Culbertson, Eakin published ''Louisiana: The Land and Its People,'' (1986), a textbook used in junior high classes of Louisiana history.<ref name=clamar/> Another of her works is ''Avoyelles Parish: Crossroads of Louisiana''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/sue-eakin|title=Sue Eakin: Barnes & Noble|publisher=Barnesandnoble.com llc|accessdate=September 9, 2013}}</ref>  As an educator and a researcher, Eakin was responsible for conducting, or sending students into the field to conduct more than four hundred oral history interviews documenting various aspects of Louisiana history, culture and folklife.  These recorded audio interivcews are now archived at the [[Louie B. Nunn]] Center for Oral History at the [[University of Kentucky]] in Lexington.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org./collections/sue-eakin-louisiana-oral-history-collection|title=Sue Eakin Louisiana Oral History Collection]|publisher=Kentuckyoralhistory.org|accessdate=October 26, 2009}}</ref>​

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==Legacy and honors==​

==Legacy and honors==

Eakin received numerous research grants, awards, and honors for her work, including the following:​

Eakin received numerous research grants, awards, and honors for her work, including the following:​

*1970, "Outstanding American History Professor" from the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=sue-lyles-eakins&pid=133129023|title=Obituary of Sue Lyles Eakin|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=September 19, 2009|accessdate=September 21, 2009}}</ref>​

*1970, "Outstanding American History Professor" from the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]].<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=sue-lyles-eakins&pid=133129023|title=Obituary of Sue Lyles Eakin|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=September 19, 2009|accessdate=September 21, 2009}}</ref>​