Rebuilding Europe, Rebuilding the Gulf Coast

Department Chair Günter Bischof soon after the flooding of the city began to compare and contrast New Orleans post-Katrina rebuilding and European post-World War II reconstruction efforts. In April 2006, Dr. Bischof, along with Dr. Allan Millett, Director of the UNO Eisenhower Center for American Studies, and The National World War II Museum organized the following symposium. For a summary of the day’s proceedings, please select the following file:

Lessons from the Past: Postwar German and European Reconstruction and the Rebuilding of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

Historians Interpreting Katrina

The History New Network hosts a Katrina forum featuring many different historians' interpretations of the storm and its aftermath. Dr. Bischof contributes regular updates regarding conditions in New Orleans. His and many other essays can be read via the following link:

Historians and Katrina