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News Items
October 2006
Faculty:
Richard Breitman published” Intelligence and the Holocaust,” in Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust, ed. David Bankier (New York: Enigma Books, 2006), 17-48.
Kathleen Franz was the Consultant for "Prototypes Workshop," Lemelson Center for the History of Invention, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, September 2006. She also wrote the paper, "'From Savagery to Civilization': Otis Tufton Mason and the Ethnology of Invention," for the Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference, October 2006.
Ira Klein wrote an essay on "Railroads, Steel and Colonial India's Economic Development” which was issued this spring by the Journal of Indian History, which also will publish his essay on "Calcutta's Development and Society" at a forthcoming date.
Peter Kuznick, debated Judge Dan Winn in Atlanta on the topic "Were the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Militarily and Morally Defensible?" The debate which occurred in June was sponsored by Georgia Public Broadcasting. It was moderated by former Attorney General Griffin Bell. The Center for Teaching Excellence chose American Culture in the Nuclear Age, taught this past June and July, as the first class to videotape for use in training beginning faculty members. The Eagle carried an article on the panel of Iraq War vets who spoke in a public forum held in conjunction with the Oliver Stone's America class.
Pamela Nadell presented Bernard Wexler Lecture on Jewish History, 2006, “Community, Diversity and America’s Jews: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the Washington DCJCC’s Return to 16th Street,” District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, 19 October 2006.