Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society July/August 2006 Volume VII, Number "Historians in the Midst of Catastrophe: Reflections of the University of New Orleans's Department of History after Hurricane Katrina."

Mary Niall Mitchell, assistant professor of history and specialist in 19th-century southern and U.S. cultural history, was the recipient of the 2004-2005 Oscar Handlin fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Her story is attached.