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July 18, 2008 Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies and the Louisiana State Museum History Ya-Ya Summer-Fall 2008 Lecture Schedule Please join the Louisiana State Museum at the Arsenal, Thursday July 17, 6- 8 p.m. for History Ya-Ya featuring UNO Associate Professor of History Dr. Connie Atkinson.
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The monthly lecture series exploring Louisiana's historical and cultural legacies is sponsored by The University of New Orleans Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies and the Louisiana State Museum. All lectures are free to the public, and they all will take place at the Cabildo, 701 Chartres Street, in the Arsenal building For more information please Click here |
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June 23, 2008 Dr. Millett receives 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement Dr. Allan Millett has been selected to receive the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The $100,000 honorarium, citation and medallion, sponsored by the Chicago-based Tawani Foundation, will be presented at the Library's annual Liberty Gala on October 4, 2008. The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award recognizes a living author for a body of work that has profoundly enriched the public understanding of American military history. A national panel of historians, writers and individuals related to the study of American history and heritage - including the first recipient of the award James M. McPherson - reviewed nominations and definitive works submitted by publishers, agents, book sellers and other professional literary organizations. The finalist recommendation was unanimously endorsed by the executive council of the Foundation established to oversee the award process.
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Allan Millett's written work, teaching and other pursuits have educated and informed us all in a most profound way. In creating this premiere annual award to recognize one author's lifetime commitment to scholarly writing on military topics we ultimately hope to contribute to a better understanding of the horrible complexities of war, past, present and future." For more information about the award, please select: Pritzker Award For more information about Dr. Millett and the Eisenhower Center, please select: Eisenhower Center |
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June 06, 2008 Faculty Summer Research Awards Congratulations to Drs. Catherine Candy, Jim Mokhiber, and Jeff Wilson for receiving College of Liberal Arts Summer Scholar Awards. These fellowships fund summer research and writing for full-time faculty.
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In addition, Dr. Mary Niall Mitchell has been awarded two short-term fellowships for summer research: the Andrew Oliver Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society and a fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. |
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June 06, 2008 Marshall Plan Conference in Vienna
The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation sponsored “Images of the Marshall Plan: Film, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters” a symposium on May 19 and 20 in Vienna. CenterAustria of the University of New Orleans and the Institute of Social and Economic History of the University of Vienna were the program organizers.
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Traditional approaches in Marshall Plan Studies have been analyzing the economic contribution of the European Recovery Program (ERP) to Western Europe’s economic recovery and political stabilization. This meeting focused on Marshall Plan public relations and propaganda. How was the Marshall Plan “sold” to the Americans and how were its achievements presented to the Western Europeans to remind them of America’s generosity in rebuilding Europe and buttressing Europeans against the Communist threat? For more about the conference, please visit CenterAustria’s website.
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May 21, 2008
For more information about her book, please see: Dr. Mitchell's book
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Dr. Mitchell’s New Orleans Book Signing Dr. Mitchell discussed and signed her book, Raising Freedom's Child, on Tuesday, May 20, at the Garden District Book Shop. Pianist Tom McDermott played before and after the reading.
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April 28, 2008 Three history students awarded Prizes during the annual College of Liberal Arts honors ceremony Gunter Bischof presented the Joseph Logsdon Scholarship award to both John Mangipano and Christine Horn. Endowed by UNO alumnus Carl E. Muckley, the award is intended to provide financial assistance to a full-time junior or senior UNO history major who demonstrates exceptional ability and promise.
John Mangipano, Logsdon Scholarship awardee Dr. Bischof also presented the George Windell Prize for best thesis to recent MA graduate Scott Manguno and the Marcus Christian Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate paper to Stacey Civello.
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Stacey Civello, Marcus Christian Prize awardee
Scott Manguno, Windell Prize awardee |
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April 22, 2008 Real to Reel: WW II in Film, Newsreels and
Panelists from
left to right: Professor Arnold Krammer, Texas A & M University, signing
his book on German POWs in the U.S.; Dr. Barbara Stelzl-Marx, deputy
director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Study of the
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During the recent conference "Real to Reel: WW II in Film, Newsreels and Documentaries" organized by the National World War II Museum, UNO Chair The special exhibition Real to Reel: Hollywood & World War II features artifacts, images, war-era movie posters and audio video elements. On exhibit are items worn or used by stars such as Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Visitors will be able to view clips from selected movies, cartoons and shorts and also might recognize some stars and stars-to-be in military training and propaganda films. The exhibit runs from April 11- August 31, 2008. |
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April 16, 2008 Dr. Mary Mitchell's new book just published The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery’s abolition. As a member of the first generation of African Americans raised in freedom, the black child—freedom’s child—offered up the possibility that blacks might soon enjoy the same privileges as whites: landownership, equality, autonomy. Yet for most white southerners, this vision was unwelcome, even frightening. Many northerners, too, expressed doubts about the consequences of abolition for the nation and its identity as a “white” republic. From the 1850s and the Civil War to emancipation and the official end of Reconstruction in 1877, Raising Freedom’s Child examines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a far-reaching, national event with profound social, political, and cultural consequences. Mary Niall Mitchell analyzes multiple views of the black child—in letters, photographs, newspapers, novels, and court cases—to demonstrate how Americans contested and defended slavery and its abolition. To read the introduction to Dr. Mitchell's book, please select the following link:
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With each chapter, Mitchell narrates an episode in the lives of freedom’s children, from debates over their education and labor to the future of racial classification and American citizenship. Raising Freedom’s Child illustrates how intensely the image of the black child captured the imaginations of many Americans during the upheavals of the Civil War era. Through public struggles over the black child, Mitchell argues, Americans by turns challenged and reinforced the racial inequality fostered under slavery in the United States. Only with the triumph of segregation in public schools in 1877 did the black child lose her central role in the national debate over civil rights, a role she would not play again until the 1950s. |
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April 14, 2008 Dr. Guenter Bischof (Director, CenterAustria and Chair of History) was busy throughout the academic year 2007/8 organizing an ambitious program celebrating the ten year anniversary of CenterAustria. Dr. Bischof's Recent Scholarship
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Center Austria Events
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April 07, 2008 Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 University of New Orleans Earl K. Long Library 407 A UNO CenterAustria Ten Year Anniversary Conference in Cooperation with the Boltzmann Institute for War Consequences Graz, Austria.
(from left to right): Tvrko Jakovina (University of The conference was organized by UNO's CenterAustria on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Prague Spring and the center's Ten-Year Anniversary Celebrations. Partner institutions and individuals included UNO's Eisenhower Center for American Studies, along with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Study of the Consequences of War, Graz-Austria Other important conference sponsors included the Austrian Ministry of Science, the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation in
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Opening panel of the Prague Spring Conference with (from left to right)Guenter Bischof,
Kenneth Zezulka (Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic in Louisiana),
Peter Kolar (Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the U.S.),Carl Drichta After the intense two-day discussions, conference participants left no |
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March 10, 2008 UNO History Student Research Presentations: UNO undergraduate as well as graduate history students are presenting their research at various conferences in Louisiana and beyond. Two UNO graduate students are preparing to present at conferences in Philadelphia and Mexico. Graduate student Eileen Guillory will present her research into the post-Katrina realities confronting elderly members of the New Orleans area at the International Oral History Association’s September 2008 conference in Guadalajara, Mexico. Titled “Facing the Storm: An Oral History of Elderly Survivors of Katrina,” Guillory’s research began while enrolled in Dr. Connie Atkinson’s Oral History course. Guillory’s topic developed into her MA thesis, which Dr. Atkinson is directing. Very rarely has the International Oral History Association accepted graduate student proposals for presentation, which is indicative of Guillory’s promise as a scholar. Graduate student Joseph Stoltz will present a paper titled “To Support and Defend the Constitution on the Banks of the Mississippi: The Establishment of the Orleans Territorial Militia" at Temple University’s Twelfth Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference. The conference takes place April 12th in Philadelphia. Stoltz wrote his paper specifically for the conference. Two UNO history students are presenting papers at the 2008 Louisiana Regional Phi Alpha Theta Meeting in Lafayette. Justin Cottrell will
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The Phi Alpha Theta conference is held in conjunction with the 2008 Louisiana Historical Association annual meeting. Phi Alpha Theta is an international honor society that seeks to bring together students, professors and other historians in an environment conducive to research, sound teaching, publication and the exchange of ideas among peers. The UNO chapter is directed by Drs. Jeff Wilson and Jim Mokhiber. "The Golden Age of New Orleans Aviation: The Blue Frontier." Mangipano wrote his paper as part of the coursework in Dr. Madelon Powers’ Researching New Orleans class. Undergraduate history major Jeff Ferguson will present “The New Orleans Mint and Mardi Gras Doubloons” during the Louisiana Folklore Society 2008 Annual Meeting . The conference takes place in New Orleans on the UNO campus, April 4-5th. Ferguson conducted his research while enrolled in Dr. Mizell-Nelson’s History of New Orleans course. Mizell-Nelson will also showcase a few other examples of UNO undergraduate research in a separate presentation.
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February 20, 2008 The UNO Diversity Cabinet and the UNO Women’s Studies Program Present Domestic Trauma: The Photographer, the personal and the Community A photo lecture by Angela Kelly, Professor of Imaging Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology. Angela Kelly is an artist from Northern Ireland who uses the power of the photograph to address the social context of female culture, issues of home, and homelessness and familial relationships within the context of personal history and cultural memory.
For more information, contact Catherine Candy, UNO Department of History, ccandy@uno.edu
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Tuesday, March 25th 2008, 2 p.m UNO Earl K.Long Library, Douglas Hitt Room Room 407 |
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February 19, 2008 Center Austria Sponsors Workshop on British Slavery
The Controversy about the Slave Trade in Britain
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Conveners Wolfgang Zach, Department of EnglishUniversity of Innsbruck Günter Bischof, Center Austria Mary Niall Mitchell, Department of History University of New Orleans, Tuesday
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February 18, 2008
Recent MA Graduate Melissa Smith Authors Book A 2007 graduate of the history program, archivist Melissa Smith recently published an illustrated history of New Orleans featuring many photographs never published beforehand.
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February 16, 2008 Dr. Bischof Awarded Grand Cross of Austria for 2007
The President of Austria awarded one of the Austrian nation's most prestigious honors to Guenter Bischof, Chairman of the Acknowledging his scholarship on contemporary Austrian history and his promotion of Austrian Studies in the United States, Austrian Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Eva Nowotny, presented the Grosse Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich [Grand Cross of Austria] (2007)
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February 12, 2008 "The Chief Justices of Louisiana,” Dr. Warren Billings Thursday, March 20 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The monthly lecture series exploring Louisiana's historical and cultural legacies is co-sponsored by The University of New Orleans Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies.
Dr. Billings, UNO Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, collectively profiled the chief justices and provided more detailed sketches of those among the twenty-one individuals who left singular marks on the Supreme Court of Louisiana from its creation in 1813 to the present. Dr. Billings also commented upon the court as an institution and how it has operated. For news items from 2007 and earlier, please select the following link:
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Dr. Raphael Cassimere Jr, UNO HistoryProfessor Emeritus, presents a lecture titled "Why Black History?" On February 21, Dr. Raphael Cassimere lectured on the significance of Black history. The UNO Seraphia D. Leyda University Teaching Professor of history, Dr. Cassimere specializes in U.S. Constitutional and African American history. He is the author of African-Americans in New Orleans Before the Civil War (1996), as well as numerous articles on Civil Rights and legal history. His research interests also include early American and Louisiana history and African American slavery. Additional lectures in the History Ya-Ya Series are held the third Thursday of each month. Other lectures included the following On April 17, Sharing the Stage: Interracial Jazz and Civil Rights in New Orleans, 1946-1970, by Dr. Charles Chamberlain. On May 15, (Mis)remembering General Order No. 28: Benjamin Butler, the Woman Order, and Historical Memory, by Dr. Alecia Long. |
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