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Missing Historians: The Ordeal of Not Knowing

A full week and a half after Katrina hit the Gulf many people remain missing, including both historians and history students. The story unfolds chronologically in all its horror on the blog HNN set up last week to track the missing. Tulane's history department as of last evening had failed to locate eighteen people.
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