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.\" \r\n\r\nMary 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. \r\n\r\nHer story is attached.\r\n