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  • Sep 5, 2005

    Israelis offer university spots for students

    by Cliopatria

    Five Israeli universities announced they would welcome students from the areas stricken by the natural disaster. The Jewish Agency for Israel announced a partnership with the schools and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life to allow the students displaced by the hurricane to continue their studies.

    In particular, medical students unable to attend the Tulane University in New Orleans can attend Tel Aviv University's Sackl
  • Sep 5, 2005

    Passages

    by Cliopatria

    I've been meaning for a while to blog about Passages, which is a web-based revival of a publication started and maintained by my graduate advisor, David William Cohen. I helped put together one of the original issues in the early 1990s, so it's a welcome sight for that reason alone.

    The interesting thing about Passages was that it showed how much compelling"found material" was out there about Afr

  • Sep 5, 2005

    Guenter Bischoff: Savage, Hirsch Located

    by Cliopatria

    Bill Savage, the retired collegue who stayed in New Orleans, left town in a car after the storm and is ok.

    Someone called me and said that Arnold Hirsch is in Dallas and safe.

    Guenter Bischoff
  • Sep 5, 2005

    Jessica Lepler: Archivists Missing from Tulane

    by Cliopatria

    Hi I'm a graduate student at Brandeis, but live in New Orleans and am very involved in the Tulane community. We are also missing a bunch of archivists: Melissa Smith, Kenneth Owen, Bill Meneray, among others.

    Jessica Lepler
  • Sep 4, 2005

    Offer from North Park University

    by Cliopatria

    I am an Assistant Professor in the History Department at North Park University--a small liberal arts university on the north side of the city of Chicago. I would like to begin a public posting site on HNN, choosing you because you gave the History Department at Tulane a web site for communication.

    We would like to offer a semester (or a year) in Chicago for a student in the gulf area displaced by Katrina. We would help with transportation, lodging, food--and even tuition and expen
  • Sep 3, 2005

    More Noted Things

    by Cliopatria

    How do you account for the different responses to 9/11 and 8/29? One was an alien attack and the other a"natural disaster." There were forewarnings of both for years. In the former, local, state, and national leadership were of the same party. In New Orleans and Louisiana, at least, national leadership met state and local leadership of the opposition party. There's responsibility to be shared by both. In 9/11, no race or class was spared. In 8/29, young and old, poor and sick people of color hav
  • Sep 2, 2005

    Strike-Planning 101

    by Cliopatria

    I've never planned an illegal strike, but it would seem to me that a union intent on striking illegally would lay the groundwork by reaching out to possibly sympathetic elected officials. CUNY's faculty union, the PSC, seems to have another strategy. (New York's Taylor Law prohibits strikes by public employee unions; the PSC has set a September 29 date for a vote on a"job action": just a guess, but I doubt many judges will be fooled by word games.)

    The current leadership of the PSC, which to

  • Sep 2, 2005

    Things Noted Here and There

    by Cliopatria

    First, just go read"Suffering Strangers" at Mode for Caleb. Then you can come back.

    Our colleagues in the history department at Tulane are among the refugees from Katrina. On History News Network's mainpage, Rick Shenkman has set up a blog site, at which Tulane's refugee history faculty members and students can post in order to communicate with each other and the r

  • Sep 1, 2005

    Misplaced Pride

    by Cliopatria

    I almost called this post"Hairball History" because Paul Harvey said he was" choking on something for weeks" and finally coughed it up. Tom Paxton said that some people you don't satirize, you just quote:

    After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill said that the American people…he said, the American people, he said, and this is a direct quote, “We didn’t come thi
  • Sep 1, 2005

    the scott mclemee review of books

    by Cliopatria

    Perhaps the days might return when Time and Newsweek felt some obligation to report on the same books covered in The New York Review of Books. They did, you know, once upon a time.

    Well, no such luck. If the editors of Time and Newsweek do have a model for their cultural coverage, it seems to be People magazine.

    So Scott McLemee is going to do his part to fix book coverage, one Th

  • Sep 1, 2005

    war is a force that we can measure

    by Cliopatria

    The true hero [of war] ... is force. Force employed by man.... To define force -- it is that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him. Somebody was here, and the next minute there is nobody here at all....

    Simone Weil,"The Iliad, or the Poem of Force," 1945.

    Suppose war is about force, and force is th