August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina Hits New Orleans
Eight years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Category 4 storm claimed almost 2,000 lives and caused $80 billion in damage.
Watch NOVA’s “Storm that Drowned a City” to see what led to the devastating floods that Katrina unleashed on New Orleans.
JUST LIKE US: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by Helen Thorpe
From Goodreads: Written by a gifted journalist, a powerful account of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver—two of whom have legal documentation, two of whom who don’t— and the challenges they face as they attempt to pursue the American dream. Just Like Us takes readers on a compelling journey withfour young Mexican-American women who have lived in the U.S. since childhood. Exploring not only the women’s personal life stories, this book also delves deep into an American subculture and the complex and controversial politics that surround the issue of immigration.
Check out Voice of Witness title Underground America as a companion text.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, PBS will air its award-winning documentary Brother Outsider, which tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay Black activist, and organizer of the 1963 March. The film will be broadcast on Wednesday, August 28th at 7 pm and midnight, EST. It will also be streaming August 28th and 29th. For more viewing information, as well as a discussion/curriculum guide, visit rustin.org.
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OHA Annual Meeting, “Hidden Stories, Contested Truths: The Craft of Oral History”
OHA Annual Meeting, “Hidden Stories, Contested Truths: The Craft of Oral History”
Make plans to attend the Oral History Association Annual Meeting at the historic Skirvin Hilton in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The meeting is scheduled for October 9-13, 2013, and the theme is “Hidden Stories, Contested Truths: The Craft of Oral History”…
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Julian Bond and the 1963 March on Washington
“We believed very strongly in our position that the Kennedy civil rights bill was not adequate, that it was weak and that the Democratic and Republican parties were too much alike and neither one of them as strong for civil rights as they should have been. We were fearful that the march would turn into sort of a campaign rally for John F. Kennedy’s reelection and didn’t want it to have that kind of political overtone.”
What’s your favorite Back to School memory?
What’s your favorite Back to School memory?
Share your favorite Back to School memory using the hashtag #BTSmemory, and we’ll be sharing along with you across our social media.
Curious about our staff experience? They discuss first day of school clothes, Chuck Taylors, backpacks, and pencil cases on the OUPblog.
You see, regardless of what we might think about open access, or dissertation embargoes, or any of the other issues that came up in the ahagate conversation this summer, if we accept that history has been and remains a book-based discipline, then we are accepting that the book is the standard by which historians should be judged for such things as jobs, promotion, tenure, raises, etc. For our professional association to make such a bold defense of the book as the gold standard is more than just counter productive, it’s really out of touch with the realities of the history job market our MA and PhD grads find themselves in.
