Hiroshima Travelogue- Episode 1

I still have a few hours. I am writing the "Chronology of Iran's Contemporary History". It’s about the news on November 21, 1925. One of the pieces is about the military attaché of the Japanese government in India; Masaharu Homma. He is moving toward Iran. Iran's ambassador in Baghdad has informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Masaharu Homma has entered the political chronology, and will be granted a free visa.

Oral History at African American Library, Gregory School

Built in 1926, the Gregory School was the first school for African Americans in the city of Houston and is located in the city's oldest established African American community-historic Freedmen's Town, in Houston's Fourth Ward. The school closed its doors in the mid-1980s and after being abandoned for over 20 years reopened in 2009 as The African American Library at the Gregory School. As the first library of its kind in Houston and one of the few African American libraries in the country, the Gregory School serves as a resource to preserve, promote, and celebrate the rich history and culture of African Americans in Houston, the surrounding region, and the African Diaspora.

History Wars, Wars in History & Other Southern African Histories

Abstracts of no more than 300 words in, either English or Afrikaans, should be sent to Johan Wassermann ( wassermannj@ukzn.ac.za) by 30 March 2014. Proposals for individual papers and panels are equally welcome. Please include your full name, title, affiliation, contact number and email address in all correspondence. Panel proposals should include abstracts and contact details for all participants. Participants will be requested to act as panel facilitators.

TCC Gig Harbor hosts display of photographs from Oral History Project

The project was an assignment for students in Christie Fierro’s public speaking class. Charlee Glock-Jackson, for Gig Harbor Life Posted August 30, 2013 at 6 a.m. With no budget but good support from the TCC administration, Christie Fierro and her communications students have put together an oral history project that is currently on display at the Gig Harbor TCC campus.

War, Memory, and Gender: An Interdisciplinary Conference

The past several decades have seen an explosion of scholarly interest in the subject of war and gender. At the same time, the study of collective or cultural memory, especially in connection with armed conflict, has become a veritable cottage industry. This conference seeks to bring these two areas of intensive study into dialogue with each other,exploring the complex ways in which gender shapes war memory and war memory shapes gender.

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