BERNARD A. COOK
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Education
Ph.D. in Modern European History, Saint Louis University, 1970.
Fulbright Fellowship to University of Marburg, Germany, 1967.
M.A. Saint Louis University, 1966. European History with minor in U.S.
History.
Gregorian University, Rome, 1963-64.
B.A. Notre Dame Seminary New Orleans, 1963. Philosophy with a minor
in History.
Academic Experience
Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Loyola University, 2013-
Provost II Distinguished Professor of History, Loyola University, 2004-2013.
Professor of History, Loyola University New Orleans, 1985-2004.
Coordinator, Loyola in France, 2004-2013.
Director of Loyola Summer Study Program in Belgium, 1993-2011.
Chairperson, History Department, Loyola University, 1983-1989.
Associate Professor of History, Loyola University, 1974-1985.
Assistant Professor of History, Loyola University, 1970-1974.
Instructor in History, Loyola Univ., New Orleans, 1968-1970.
Instructor in History, Northern Michigan Univ., Spring 1968.
Lecturer in History, Saint Louis University, Summer 1967.
Summer Programs
Summer, 1991, invited to teach a course on "United States History from
the Underside," Catholic Theological Union, Chicago.
Summer, l988, Facilitator, Summer Seminar for School Teachers,
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Summer, l987, Facilitator, Summer Seminar for School Teachers,
School for Workers, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Summer, 1986, Facilitator, Summer Seminar for School Teachers, School of
Labor and Industrial Relations Summer School, Cornell University.
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Other
Invited to join editorial board of Military History Collection, journal of the Bulgarian
Commission on Military History.
Invited to join the Advisory Board of Storia e Politica, the quarterly of the Institute of
European Studies at the University of Palermo.
Taught in the University of Southern Mississippi Abbey Program, Pontlevoy, France, Spring
2008 and 2012.
Taught a master’s level course on World War I at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla
Academy, Kiev, Ukraine, May 2007.
Assessor of University History Syllabi, Educational Research Institute, University of Oregon,
2006-7.
Editorial Board of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe for 2002.
Examiner, International Baccalaureate Organization, 2000-2004.
Visiting Professor for Short Course at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," February, 1999.
Appointed to the National Faculty for a six-year period, January 1997.
Awards
The Magazin istoric Foundation Grigore Gafencu Prize for the outstanding contribution to
history of diplomatic relations in 2010: Bernard Cook and Dumitru Preda, editors, United
States of America and Romania: Diplomatic Relations 1912-1919, (Bucharest: Cavallioti,
2010).
Who’s Who in American Education, 2007-2008.
Who's Who in America 60th (2006) Edition
Who’s Who in American Education, 2006-2007.
Who's Who in America 59th (2005) Edition
Who’s Who in the World, 2005.
Who’s Who in American Education, 2005-2006.
Who’s Who in America, 2004.
Outstanding Academics of the 21st Century, 2004.
Provost II Distinguished Professorship, Loyola University, 2004.
Invited to be an honorary member of the Central European Academy of
Science and Art, 2003.
Voted an Honorary Professor by the faculty senate of the University
of Banat Timisoara. Invested by the rector on March 29, 2002.
Dux Academicus, the highest faculty award at Loyola University, January,
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2000.
Loyola University Student Alumni Association Recognition for excellence,
dedication, and enthusiasm in education, November, 1994.
"The Excellence in Teaching Award," College of Arts and Sciences,
Loyola University, May 1994.
Voted one of five most effective teachers at Loyola, Student Government
Association Survey, Maroon, 11 February 1994.
Loyola University Student Alumni Association Recognition for excellence,
dedication, and enthusiasm in education, 1992.
Extra-mural Grants since 1988
Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum to participate in a faculty seminar, "Rescuers and
Bystanders during the Holocaust: The Historical Significance of Morality and
Complicity", June 2010.
Fellowship from the Hess Foundation to participate in a faculty seminar on the Holocaust at
the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC, January 2008.
Fellowship from the Soros Open Society Institute in Budapest. As part of its Higher
Education Support Program I served as a Non-resident International Resource Scholar
with the History Department of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy of the Ukrainian National
University, June, 2006-June 2007.
Grant from the Centro Siciliano Sturzo to attend a conference on Luigi
Sturzo, Erice, Sicily, October 2000.
Grant from the Rosmini Foundation in Stresa, Italy for the publication of
An Introduction to the Thought of Antonio Rosmini, January 2000.
Grant from the United States Information Service to give a lecture at the
University of Palermo, February 1999.
Grant from the Rosmini Foundation in Stresa, Italy to attend the
Bicentennial Rosmini Symposium, Rome, November 1998.
Grant from the government of the Region of Sicily to attend a conference
on Gioacchino Ventura, Erice, Sicily, October 1988.
Courses Taught
A. Upper-division history courses at Loyola:
The Collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia
Ethnic Conflict in the Twentieth Century
Europe 1648-1815
Europe 1815-1914
Europe 1914-1945
Europe since 1945
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France since 1789
Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Germany 1648-1871
Germany since 1866
Historiography
History of Belgium
History of Modern Italy
History of Russia since 1905
Hitler and Nazi Germany
The Holocaust
Modern Russia
B. Common Curriculum Courses:
The European Left
The First World War through History and Literature
Great Revolutions
The History of Labor
People at War
People at Work
Pivotal Eras
Total War
C. World Civilization:
World Civilization to 1650
World Civilization from 1650
D. Masters Level at the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
World War I
Committee Service since 2000
A. University:
Director, Institute for the Study of Catholic Culture and Tradition 2001-2012
Distance Learning Task Force 2009-2010
Centennial Committee 2009-
University Rank and Tenure Committee 2008-2011.
Selection Committee for Dux Academicus 2006
Center for International Education Steering Committee, 2003-10.
Center for International Education Policy Committee, 2003-10.
College Rank and Tenure Committee, 2003-6.
Distance Learning Advisory Committee, 2002-2005.
Director of the Institute for the Study of Catholic Culture and
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Tradition, 2001-.
University Rank and Tenure Committee, 1999-2002.
Appointed by president to board of the Loyola Institute for the
Study of Catholic Culture and Tradition, 1999-.
University Planning Team, 1997-2003.
Asked by Loyola's president to serve on Planning Team
Steering Committee, 1999-2003.
Committees on Ongoing Institutional Objective #2 and #3 2001-2002.
B. College:
Strategic Planning Committee, co-chair, 2007-
College Rank and Tenure Committee, 2005-2006
College Planning Team, 2003.
Selection Committee--Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996-2004; Chair, 2000-
2003.
Ad Hoc Committee on College Planning, 2002-2003.
Ad Hoc Committee on Standards for the College of Arts and
Sciences, Spring 2000.
Books
Founded on Faith: Loyola University New Orleans. (New Orleans: Loyola University
Press, 2012).
Belgians in Michigan, (Lansing: Michigan State University, 2007).
Belgium: A History, (New York: Peter Lang, 2002). Paperback edition
2004.
Reviewed in Choice, September 2003: “Cook sorts out Belgium’s complex
history in this concise, much-needed study…Highly recommended.”
With Rosemary Cook, German Americans, (Vero Beach, Florida:
Rourke, 1991).
With James Watson, Louisiana Labor from Slavery to "Right to Work"
(Lanham: University Press of America, 1985).
Cited in Eric Arnesen Waterfront Workers of New Orleans, (Oxford University
Press, 1991) p. 196. Reference in Michel Cordillot's Des Hommes Libres dans
un Société esclavagiste, p. 237. Six citations in William Canak and Berkeley
Miller, "Gumbo Politics: Unions, Business, and Louisiana Right-to-Work
Legislation," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 43 (Jan, 1990) 2.
Reviewed in Choice, March 1986, and in Louisiana History XXVII
(Summer,1986) 3: 317-319, by Thomas Becnel of Nicholls State University.
Becnel wrote: "Both specialists in labor and economic history and students of
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Louisiana history in general will benefit from this work. . . Cook and Watson
have broken new ground . . . It presents new findings which Louisiana
historians should consider and respect." H.L. Mitchell, co-founder of the
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, wrote in his newsletter : ". . . a real
contribution to labor history."
Chapter 1 selected for inclusion in volume 15 of the Louisiana Purchase
Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, Visions and Revisions: Perspectives
on Louisiana Society and Culture (Lafayette: The Center for Louisiana Studies,
2000).
Edited Works
Cook, Bernard and Dumitru Preda, editors, United States of America and Romania:
Diplomatic Relations 1912-1919, (Bucharest: Cavallioti, 2010).
Cook, Bernard, ed., Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the
Present (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006), 2 vols.
“…a reference no collection should be without: from specialty military
collections to general-interest public library holdings, WOMEN AND WAR
offers the browser and researcher an A-Z compendium of facts organized by
topic. Listings by both war and biographical sketch of individuals allow for
easy cross-referencing, while listings often run several pages charting history,
culture, and including bibliographic references at the end of each article. Small
black and white photos, cross references within volumes for further follow up
reading, and an attention to detail make WOMEN AND WAR a recommended
pick.” Diane C. Donovan, California Bookwatch
Cook, Bernard, co-editor with Susan V. Nicassio, Michael F. Pavkoviv, and Karl
Roider, Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 2002
(Tallahassee: Florida State, 2002).
Cook, Bernard, ed., Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland
Publishers: 2001). I wrote over 200 of the entries (over 150,000 words) and
recruited 280 scholars from 30 countries to collaborate on this project.
Reviewed by David Ettinger, George Washington University, in Library
Journal. According to Ettinger, the work is “impressive.” He writes “Although
not as inclusive as Derek Urwin's Dictionary of European History and Politics
Since 1945 (Addison-Wesley, 1996), this is a work of far greater scope and
depth . . . this commendable achievement is a useful contribution to the
reference literature on contemporary Europe that will be welcomed especially
by academic libraries.”
American Reference Books Annual, 2002, wrote, “An admirable and
outstanding achievement....The scope and depth of this work result in a
significant contribution to reference sources on contemporary Europe. It will
be an excellent starting point for scholars and researchers and a useful tool for
reference staff.”
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Against the Grain, September 2001, wrote“...offers an up-to-date, thorough
treatment of the forces making up recent European politics and history....
should find a welcome place on both public and academic libraries.”
Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin, June 2001, wrote “The subject guide
allows the reader to scan all of the entries in a few minutes, making the
encyclopedia an efficient browsing source.... Europe Since 1945 is a resource
that will be used by academic and public libraries by students and general
readers needing background information on recent trends, issues and history.”
Cook, Bernard, ed., An Introduction to the Thought of Antonio Rosmini (New
Orleans: Loyola University Press, 2000). I translated the introduction by Mario
D'Addio, the University of Rome. Printing funded by a grant from the Rosmini
Foundation, Stresa, Italy.
Cook, Bernard, co-editor with Donald Horward, Kyle Eidahl, and Karl Roider,
Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1995
(Tallahassee: Florida State, 1995).
Completed Manuscripts
“Bulgaria at War,” with Dr. Dimitre Minchev, Hear of the Bulgarian Commission on Military
History. Submitted to publisher. Revision needed.
In Progress
I am in the midst of research on a book dealing with Irish prisoners condemned to
transportation in the nineteenth century.
Chapters or Equivalent
“Pax Romana and the Reconstruction of Europe along Christian Lines,” in Une Europe
malgré Tout. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), 267-279.
"The Rights of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Post-1945 Europe," in Human Rights in
Europe since 1945, edited by Antoine Fleury and Carole Fink. (Geneva: Peter Lang, 2003),
pp. 85-104.
"Les Ouvriers Cajuns," in Ronald Creagh and John Clark, eds., Les Français des États-Unis
d'hier à aujourd'hui. (Montpellier: l'Université Paul Valery, Montpellier, 1995), pp. 375-383.
"The Use of Race to Control the Labor Market in Louisiana," in Racism and the Labour
Market: Historical Studies, edited by Marcel van der Linden and Jan Lucassen. (Bern: Peter
Lang, 1995), pp. 153-176.
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"Agriculture and Agricultural Laborers," in British Victorian Literature, edited by J. Don Vann
and Rosemary T. VanArsdel (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1994), pp. 235-248. Reprinted
in paperback 1995. Reviewed in Newsletter of the British Newspaper Library: "each of the
authors (are) authoritative and sensible..."; and by Clinton K. Klaus in English Literature
Translation: "No serious cultural historian or student of the period should fail to consult (it)."
"Willy Brandt," in Statesmen Who Changed the World, edited by Frank W. Thackeray and
John E. Findling (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993), pp. 57-66.
"New Orleans the First and Largest Local," chapter in Built in: A Social History of Louisiana
Carpenters, edited by Joel Gardner (New Orleans, 1985), pp. 6-22.
Formally Solicited Articles
“Sindromul Münchn: Posteritatea Americana a conciliatorismului,” Magazin istoric, February
2009, 33-36.
“America and the Question of Dobrudja,” in The Epic of Tutrakan and the War on the
Northern Front 1916-1918, edited by Peter Boishev and Voloda Milashkov, (Tutrakan,
Bulgaria: 2007), pp. 91-114.
“Eugene Schuyler: Reports on the Bulgarian Question,” in Bulgarian, Military History
Collection, Military Publishing House Sofia, Bulgaria, vol 1-2, 2007, pp. 70-116.
“Opinia Publica si Autoritile Americane despre Revolutia Romana din
Decembre [Public Opinion and American Authorities on the Romanian Revolution of
December],” Clio 1989. Institutul Revolutieri Române din Decembre. (Bucharest: IRRD,
2006), II, 1-2, pp. 97-105.
“The United States and World War II,” Military Historical Collection, Military Publishing
House Sofia, Bulgaria, 2005, pp. 52-56.
“The Mediterranean since 1945: The Burdens of the Past and Confronting the Future,” New
Architecture of Peace, Timisoara, Romania: Central European Academy of Science and Art,
2003, pp. 34-43.
"Inquiry Group of Woodrow Wilson and the Peace Treaty with Bulgaria," Macedonian
Review, 1999, IV:84-94; in Bulgarian, IV: 71-83.
"Augusto Del Noce, Reinhold Niebuhr, e Walter Lipmann, parallelismi e convergenze,"
Rassegna Siciliana di Storia e Cultura, III (7) August 1999, pp. 5-15.
"Guizot and Ferdinand II," Rebus Nostris Colendis: Libera Università di Trapani, November
1990, 26 (IX), pp. 5-8.
Refereed Journal Articles
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"The Italian Revolution: A Reassessment," The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 1
(March 1996), 1:53-58.
"The Mobilization of the Internal Cold War in Italy," History of European Ideas, 19 (1994) pp.
115-120.
"Two Depression Era 'Life Histories' from Marion County, Mississippi, October, 1938,"
Journal of Mississippi History, Summer, 1985, pp. 126-128.
"The Typographical Union and the New Orleans General Strike of 1892," Louisiana History,
Fall, 1983, pp. 377-388. Cited in text of Keith W. Medley. We as Freemen, Plessy v.
Ferguson, (New Orleans, 2003), p. 163 and footnoted in Eric Arnesen Waterfront Workers of
New Orleans, p. 115, 116, and 151.
"Ritual Abduction in Early Mississippi," The Mississippi Quarterly, Winter, 1982-3, pp. 71-
73.
"Philippe Buchez and his Theory of History," Fides et Historia, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp.
18-28. Cited by Eugenio Guccione in Philippe Buchez e la rivoluzione francese, pp.40, 42,
and 80.
With James Watson, "The Sailors and Marine Transport Workers'1913 Strike in New Orleans:
The AFL and the IWW," Southern Studies, Spring, 1979, pp. 111-122. Cited in Eric Arnesen
Waterfront Workers of New Orleans, pp. 206 and 213. Reprinted in vol. 7 of The Louisiana
Purchase Bicentennial Series, Modernization and the Paradoxes of Reaction and Reform,
1877-1928 (Lafayette: The Center for Louisiana Studies, 2000).
"Covington Hall and Radical Rural Unionization in Louisiana," Louisiana History, Spring,
1977, pp. 227-238. Cited by Robin D.G. Kelly, "'We Are Not What We Seem': Rethinking
Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South," The Journal of American History,
80 (June 1993) 1:93.
"Section 15 of the I.W.A.: The First International in New Orleans," Louisiana History,
Summer, 1973, pp. 297-304. Cited in Michel Cordillot, "La proscription communaliste aux
États-Unis," in Les français des États-Unis, editied by Ronald Creagh and John Clark, p. 348;
and in the same work cited by Hubert Perrier, "L'Union républicaine et les sections françaises
de l'Internationale," pp. 298, 311, and 312.
"Hitler's Extermination Policy and the American Indian," The Indian Historian, Summer,
1973, pp. 48-9.
"A Report from Friedrich Sorge to the General Council of the I.W.A.: The New York Riot of
1871," Labor History, Summer, 1972, pp. 415-417.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
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“Ireland at the Time of Transportation,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe: Selected
Papers 2005, (High Point, NC: High Point University, 2007), 280-288.
"The Valdôtaine Movement and Val D'Aostan Autonomy," Twentieth Century European
Narratives: Tradition and Innovation: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International
Society for the Study of European Ideas, CD-ROM, edited by Ezra Talmor, (Haifa:
ISSEI/University of Haifa, 2001).
“Abkhazia and Chechnya: A Case Study of Two Ethnic Conflicts,” Approaching a New
Millennium: Lessons from the Past Prospects for the Future, Proceedings of the 7th
Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, CD-ROM, (Bergen:
HIT Centre University of Bergen, 2000).
"Myth and Memory in Nation Building and Ethnic Conflict in the Caucasus," in Memory,
History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium. Proceedings of the Fifth
Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (CD-ROM), edited by
Frank Brinkhuis and Sascha Talmor. (Utrecht: ISSEI/University for Humanist Studies, 1998).
"Sicilian Women Peasants in the Nineteenth Century," Selected Papers of the Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe 1997 (Tallahassee: Florida State, 1997), 627-638.
"Sicilian Women and Revolution in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," Selected Papers
of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1994 (Tallahassee: Florida State, 1994) pp. 82-
91. I also translated from Italian the paper, "The Concept of 'Revolution' in the Thought of
Ventura," by Eugenio Guccione, pp. 92-104 .
"France and the Sicilian Revolution of 1848," Proceedings of the Western Society for French
History, 1990 (Auburn University, 1991), pp. 293-301.
Conference Proceedings
"Luigi Sturzo's Battle from the United States," in Luigi Sturzo e la Democrazia nella
Prospettiva del Terzo Millennio, edited by Eugenio Guccione (Florence: Leo S. Olschki,
2004), pp. 273-285.
"The United States and Romania during World War I and the Peace Settlement: Divided
Counsels," in La fin de la Première Guerre mondiale et la nouvelle architecture géopolitique
européenne, edited by George Cipaianu and Vasile Vesa (Cluj: Presses Universitaires de Cluj,
2000), pp. 45-61.
"Ethno-Nationalism, Regionalism, and the New Europe," in L’Europe
au XXe siècle éléments pour un Bilan, edited by Thomas Schramm, (Poznan:Instytut Historii
UAM, 2000), pp. 347-363.
"Sicily and Italian National Unification," Nationalism in Europe: Past and Present, Justo G.
Beramendi, Ramón Máiz, Xosé M. Núñez, editors. (Santiago: University of Santiago de
Compostela, 1994), Vol. I, pp. 651-664.
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"Italy in the Napoleonic Era: Commentary," The Proceedings of the Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe, 1992, pp. 274-276.
"The Second French Republic and Rome," Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary
Europe 1991 (Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1992), pp. 8-16. Commentary on
"Literature, Philosophy, and Religion," pp. 159-160.
"Ventura and the United States," Gioacchino Ventura e il pensiero politico di ispirazione
cristiana dell' Ottocento, Edited by Eugenio Guccione, Biblioteca dell'Archivio Storico
Italiano XXVII (Firenze: Leo Olschki,1991), II:647-662. Cited by Eugenio Guccione in his
"An Unedited 1833 Work by Gioacchino Ventura on the Spirit of Revolution and the Means
to Stop It," Selected Papers Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1997, p. 645; on p. 89 of
the Italian version of his article which appeared in the Rassegna Siciliana di Storia e Cultura,
December 1998; in his introduction to G.Ventura, Dello Spirito della Rivoluzione e dei Mezzi
di farla terminare (Torino: G. Giappichelli, 1998), p. 12; and in his Gioacchuno Ventura: Alle
radici della democrazia cristiana (Palermo: Centro Siciliano Sturzo, 1999), p. 9.
"The Catholic Church and the French Revolution of 1848," Proceedings of the Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe 1990 (Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1990), pp. 692-700.
"Ventura and the Roman Republic," Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe
1989, volume 1 (Athens: University of Georgia, 1990), pp. 52-75.
"The Christian Socialism of P.J.B. Buchez," Proceedings of the Western Society for French
History, 1974, pp. 214-224.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Leopold II,” Great Lives from History: The Incredibly Wealthy, Howard Bromberg, ed.
(Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011), pp. 550-553.
Requested to write the entry on Belgium for Peter Stearns’ Oxford Encyclopedia of the
Modern World, Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
“Détente and Human Rights,” Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace, edited by Nigel
Young, Oxford University Press, 2010.
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace is the standard reference work in the field. OIEP
was awarded a prize for scholarly achievement by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Committee.
“Council of Europe” (318-319), “Dobrudja” (363-364), “Kaliningrad” (697-698), ”Nagorno-
Karabagh” (915-916), “Saar” (1115), and “Western European Union” (1421-1422) in The
Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by Spence Tucker, (Santa Barbara,
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CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007). I served as a member of the advisory board for the project and was
credited as such.
“St. Brigit,” in Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages, 477-1453. Edited by Shelly
Wolbrink. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2004).
“North Atlantic Treaty Organization Wars on Yugoslavia,” Great Events: 1900-2001, Revised
Edition, ed. by R. Kent Rasmussen (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2002), 3019-3021.
"Armenia and Azerbaijan," Current World Conflicts and Confrontations, edited by Charles F.
Bahmueller (Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 1999), 922-930.
"Ardeatine Caves Massacre," 14-15, "Savoia, Amadeo de," 483, "Cavaliero, Ugo," 252-253,
"Frank, Hans," 301-302,"Graziani, Rodolfo," 325-327, "Hitler," 344-347, "Interallied Control
Commission for Germany," 691-692, "The Italian Wartime Government," 188-191, "Ley,
Robert" 390, "Rhineland, French Occupation of," 158-160, "Maginot Line," 1563-1564, "Ruhr
Occupation," 160, "Saar," 161, "Sauckel, Fritz" 482-483 "Schacht, Hjalmar," 483, and
"Yugoslavian National Liberation, " 1741-1744 for World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia,
edited by David T. Zabecki (Garland Press: New York, 1998). Reviewed by "Stone & Stone
Second World Books": "World War II in Europe is a very, very strong effort, and certainly
strong enough to look like a leading candidate for our annual 'Top Ten' awards. Whether it will
ultimately unseat The Oxford Companion as the WWII encyclopedia of choice will of course
depend on personal preferences among the buying public...Truth be told, though, it's hard to go
wrong with either book. Every WWII library should have a solid, reliable encyclopedia, and both
of these fit the bill. Those who can afford to do so should acquire both."
"James Erwin Yeatman," American National Biography. (New York: Oxford University Press,
1998.), 24:122-123.
"Abkhazia," <http://www.apsny.org/home.html> Asked by the web master of Abkhazia.org,
Dimitri Orlov, for permission to add my article on Abkhazia to the web site. The article was
refereed by George Hewitt of the University of London.
"Russian Troops Invade Chechnya," Chronology of European History, (Englewood Cliffs:
Salem Press, 1998), III:1339-1342.
"The Belgian Revolution of 1830," Great Events from History, (Englewood Cliffs: Salem
Press, 1997).
"L'Atelier," "Lamennais," "The Kingdom of Two Sicilies, 1848-49," and "Ventura,
Gioacchino," in The Encyclopedia of the 1848 Revolutions, edited by James G. Chastain.
Refereed by Brinson D. Gooch, editor for France, and Charles Delzell, editor for Italy.
http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/
"Abkhaz Rebels Capture Sukhumi," The Twentieth Century: Great Events, Supplement.
(Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 1996), 1607-1609.
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"Belgium: Neutrality of, to 1914," (118-119): reprinted and credited in David Boileau
Cardinal Mercier, p. 188-189; "Belgium: Occupation of, 1914-18," (119-120): reprinted and
credited in David Boileau Cardinal Mercier, p. 189-190; "Benedict XV," (121-122);
"Bethmann Hollweg," (125-126); "France: The Home Front during the War," (123-125): Cited
pp. 208 and 211 in Spencer Tucker, The Great War (U. of Indiana Press, 1998); "The German
Revolution of 1918," (303-304); "Peace Overtures during the War," (549-551); "Walther
Rathenau," (587-588); "The Reichstag Peace Resolution of 1917," (592); "Philip
Scheidemann," (632); and "Wilhelm II," (747-748) in The European Powers in the First World
War: An Encyclopedia. Ed., Spencer C. Tucker, (New York and London: Garland, 1996). The
reviewer in The Journal of Military History wrote: "...highly recommended as a reference
source..."
"Orlando," and "Sonnino," in The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia,
edited by Anne Cipriano Venzon. (New York: Garland Press, 1995), pp. 421-424, and 570-
573. The reviewer in The Journal of Military History wrote: "...an excellent, useful, and
informative addition to the library of any historian working in the area of World War I."
"Eugene V. Debs," and "Declaration for Liberated Europe," Encyclopedia USA, 19:160-164
and 186-187.
"Czechoslovakian Crisis (1968)," Encyclopedia USA, 18:38-41.
"Garibaldi," Great Leaders of the World: Western Europe, (Gale Research Associates, 1993).
"The Berlin Wall is Built," and "The Helsinki Agreement Offers Terms for International
Cooperation," Great Events from History II: Human Rights, (Salem Press, 1992), pp. 1125-
1130, and 1806-1811.
"Coalitions against Napoleon," (pp.43-47); "Coal Mining and Organized Labor," (pp. 49-57);
"Cobden-Chevalier Treaty," (pp. 88-90); "Code Napoléon," (pp. 119-121), Encyclopedia
USA, volume 13.
"Sigmund Freud," and "Benito Mussolini," Great Lives from History: Twentieth Century,
(Salem Press, 1990), pp. 714-718 and pp. 1645-1650.
"Closely Watched Trains," Encyclopedia USA, 12:239-240.
Heinrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, pp. 919-920, and Safety Net, pp. 1326-
1327; Alfred Döblin's November 1918, pp. 1117-1120; Günter Grass' Dog Years, pp. 412-414,
The Flounder, pp. 525-527, Local Anaesthetic, pp. 902-903, and The Rat, pp. 1266-1267;
Flann O'Brien's (Brian O'Nolan) At Swim-Two-Birds, pp. 82-84, and The Third Policeman,
pp. 1548-1549; and Emile Zola's Thérèse Raquin, pp.1539-1541, in the Cyclopedia of Literary
Characters II, edited by Frank Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990).
"Frederick I (of Prussia)," pp. 796-799, and "Frederick William, the Great Elector," pp. 811-
815. Great Lives from History: Renaissance to 1900, edited by Frank Magill. (Salem Press,
1989).
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"Agricultural Laborers," pp. 22-24; "Agriculture," pp. 25-27; "Mining and Miners," pp. 1016-
1019; "Poverty," pp. 1246-1250; "Strikes," pp. 1541-1545; "Wages," p. 1692-1695; and
"Working Hours," pp. 1778-1780. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sally Miller
(New York: Garland Publishing, l988).
"W.R. Cremer," pp. 232-235, "Will Crooks," pp. 239-243, "John Hales," 373-376, "Arthur
Henderson," pp. 402-409, and "Harry Quelch," pp. 672-675, Biographical Dictionary of
Modern British Radicals 1870-1914, Volume III, edited by Joseph O. Baylen and Norbert J.
Gossman (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1988).
"L'Accusateur Public", I:10; "J.B.A. Barrés," I:64; " Etienne Béquet," I:88-89; " Louis
Adolphe Bertillon," I:97-98; "Robert d'Orleans Chartres," I:199-200; "Alphonse Esquiros,"
I:396-398; "Marquis Pierre Laplace," I:594-595; "Adrienne Legendre," I:6ll; "Abbé
Dominique-Georges Pradt," II:823-824; "Felix Pyat," II:85l-852; and "Workers'
Cooperatives," II:ll33-ll37. Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the
Second Empire, edited by Edgar Newman (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987).
"Thomas J. Greer," "William Covington 'Covami' Hall," "Clarence 'Chink' Henry," and "Elijah
("Lige") Henson Williams," Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (Lafayette: Institue of
Louisiana History1987).
"Boston Police Strike," 7:45-47 and "Brotherhood of Timber Workers," 7:202-203,
Encyclopedia USA.
"Berger, Victor Louis," Encyclopedia USA, 6:15-16.
"The Italian Defeat at Adowa and the Downfall of Crispi," Great from History, Modern
European Series, Vol. II, edited by Frank Magill (Salem, N.H.: Salem Press, 1975), pp. 1094-
1099.
"Brandt Wins West German Elections," Great Events from History, Modern European Series,
Vol. III, edited by Frank Magill (Salem Press, 1975), pp. 1690-1695.
Abstracts
"The Treatment of World War II in University Level United States History Texts," abstract in
Russian. Teaching the History of the Second World War in Higher Educational Institutions.
(St. Petersburg, 1995), pp. 25-26.
Book Reviews
Fifteen book reviews in The Human Rights Review, The Canadian Review of American
Studies, The Journal of American History, The Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Louisiana
History, The Journal of Southern History, The European Legacy, and Military History.
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Papers Presented at Academic Conferences
“The United States and the Bessarabian Question,” Conference of the International
Commission of History of International Relations at Bucharest, Romania, 19-23 September
2012. Magazin istoric has asked permission to publish this article.
With Dr. David Moore, “The Russo-Georgian War of 2008,” Conference of the International
Commission of History of International Relations at Bucharest, Romania, 19-23 September
2012.
“The U.S. Catholic Church and the Solidarity Movement,” The World towards the
“Solidarity” Movement, 1980-1989, Wroclaw, Poland, 21-23 October 2010.
Invited lecture, “The United States and Bulgaria during World War I,” under the auspices of
the Alumni of the NATO Defense College and the Governor of Sliven Provence, Bulgaria and
to present a paper, “Bulgarian Sources in the U.S. National Archives,” at an academic
conference in honor of the Historical Archives at Yambol, Bulgaria, October 2009.
“Women and War,” invited paper for a panel on Women and War at the American Historical
Association conference, New York, January 5, 2009.
“America and Bulgaria, 1940-1941,” at a conference on "Military Alliances and Coalitions
during the Twentieth Century" sponsored by the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense at the
Bulgarian Army Academy, the G.S. Rakovski Defense and Staff College in Sofia. 2-4 October
2007.
“America and the Dobrudja Question,” Conference on the Northern Front, World War I,
Tutrakan, Bulgaria, 5-7 September 2006.
Paper accepted on the U.S. Press and the Chechen Wars, European Conference on Political
Research, Budapest, September 2005, submitted and published on the conference website, but
I was not able to attend because of Hurricane Katrina.
“Ireland at the Time of Transportation,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, University of
South Florida, February 2005.
“Italy’s Response to the Demands of Regional Minorities: Val d’Aosta and the South Tyrol,”
Conflict Research Society, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Derry, Northern Ireland,
September 1-3, 2004.
“American Assessment of the Bulgarian Army during the Balkan Wars,” Bulgarian
Commission on Military History, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 26-27, 2004.
“American Opinion concerning Chechnya,” Political Studies Association, University of
Lincoln, UK, April 6-8, 2004.
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"Pax Romana: International Movement of Catholic Intellectuals,” the Association
Internationale d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Europe, Geneva, September 2003.
“The American Press and the War in Chechnya,” International Commission of Military
History Congress, Bucharest, Romania, August 2003.
Invited Keynote Address, "The Mediterranean since 1945: The Burdens of the Past and
Confronting the Future,” Malta-Gibraltar Mediterranean Conference, Gibraltar, September 26-
28, 2002. I was forced to cancel the trip because my wife had had a foot operation and a
hurricane was approaching the day I was scheduled to leave. The paper was read for me.
Chair, “Daily Life, Gender, Media,” The Westernization-Americanization of Austria in the
20th
Century, Center Austria, University of New Orleans, May 8, 2002.
“Belgium in 1848: What the Revolution that did not occur reveals about Belgium,” and chair
and commentator for the session “Italy Resurgent,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe,
Louisiana State University, February 2002.
"The Selective Ethics of Ethnic Cleansing," at the European Consortium on Political
Research, University of Kent, September 4-6, 2001.
Commentator, “The French Presence in Italy and its Legacy,”Consortium on Revolutionary
Europe, Auburn University, February 2001.
Invited paper "Luigi Sturzo: La battaglia da New York," at an international conference on
Luigi Sturzo in Erice, Sicily, October 2000. Written and delivered in Italian.
Invited paper on "The U.S. Reaction to the Unification of Bulgaria and the Serbian-Bulgarian
War of 1885" by the Bulgarian Association of Military History in Sofia, September 4-6, 2000.
"Chechnya and Abkhazia: Case Studies in Ethnic Conflict," at the International Society for the
Study of European Ideas conference in Bergen, August 2000.
"The Rights of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities in Post-1945 Europe," at a workshop on
"Human Rights in Europe since 1945" sponsored by the Association Internationale d'Histoire
Contemporaine de l'Europe in conjunction with the Congrès international des Sciences
historiques, August 2000, in Oslo.
Invited by the Center for European Studies at the University of Michigan to participate in a
symposium on the "Fundamental Causes of Gross Violations of Human Rights" on March 9,
2000. My paper was "Ethnic Minorities: Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide."
Invited by the Bulgarian Association of Military History to present a paper on "Woodrow
Wilson's Inquiry Group and the Peace Treaty with Bulgaria" at a conference on "The
Versailles Peace Treaty and the New World Order," September 1999, at the University of
Varna, Bulgaria.
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Invited paper on "The United States and Romania during World War I and the Peace
Settlement: Divided Counsels" at an international colloquium on "The End of the First World
War and the New Political and Military Architecture of Europe" at the University of Cluj-
Napoca, sponsored by the Romanian government, October 1998.
"The Valdôtaine Movement and Val D'Aostan Autonomy" at the invitation of Professor
Andrzej Glowacki of the University of Szczecin for his workshop, "National/Ethnic
Minorities and Nation-states in the Twentieth Century," at the International Society for the
Study of European Ideas conference in Haifa in August 1998.
"Ethno-Nationalism, Regionalism, and the New Europe," delivered at the Poznan
conference of the Association internationale d'histoire contemporaine de l'Europe, "Bilan du
XXe siècle européen," September 1997.
Invited paper on "The Albanians of Sicily," and to chair a workshop at the European
Sociological Association's Essex Conference "20th Century Europe: Inclusions/Exclusions,"
August 1997.
Invited to participate on a panel discussing the editing of encyclopedias at the New England
Historical Association, Boston, April 1997.
"Sicilian Women Peasants in the Nineteenth Century," delivered at the Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe, LSU, February 1997. I translated Professor Guccione's paper from
Italian.
Organizer and chair of workshop on Myth and Memory in Micro-states and Regions at the
August 1996 conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas at the
University of Utrecht. Presented paper "Myth and Memory in Nation Building and Ethnic
Conflict in the Caucasus."
Invited paper "Augusto Del Noce, Reinhold Niebuhr, e Walter Lipmann, Parallelismi e
convergenze" at the conference "Augusto Del Noce: essenze filosofiche e attualità storica,"
Rome, November 1995.
"The Construction of Nationalism in the Caucasus: History, Interests, and Ideology," presented
at the workshop on "The Construction of National and Ethnic Identities," at the conference of
the European Conference for Sociology, Budapest, August 1995.
"The Treatment of World War II in University Level United States History Texts,"
International Conference on the Teaching of the Second World War in Higher Education
Institutions, St. Perersburg, Russia, May, 1995.
Organizer and local arrangements coordinator for the twenty-fifth conference of the
Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, March 1995. I translated the paper presented by
Eugenio Guccione from Italian.
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Invited to participate in the Colloquium on "The German Problem in Recent History" at the
Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, September 1994.
Co-chaired with Henry Frendo of the University of Malta a workshop, "Southern European
Revolutions: A Reassessment," at the conference of the International Society for the Study of
European Ideas at the University of Graz, Austria, August 1994. I presented "The Italian
Revolution: A Reassessment."
"Sicilian Women and Revolution in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe, March 1994, University of Alabama, Huntsville. I organized the
session, "Police, Women, and Philosophy in Risorgimento Italy." I was asked to chair another
panel at this conference.
"Sicily and Italian National Unification," at the International Congress on Nationalism in
Europe: Past and Present, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, University
of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 1993.
Chair, "Rhetoric and Reality in Cultural Life during the Age of Democratic Revolution," at the
Consortium on Revolutionary Europe in Atlanta, February 1993.
"The Use of Violence by the Sicilian Peasantry in the Nineteenth Century," the Southern
Historical Association, November, 1992.
"Organizing the Internal Cold War in Italy," International Society for the Study of European
Ideas, Aalborg University, Denmark, August, 1992.
Moderator for the session, "Ethnography and the Colonization of Self," Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth-Studies, New Orleans, April, 1992.
Chair and commentator for the session on "Italy and the Napoleonic Era," Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe, Auburn University, February, 1992.
"The Use of Race to Control the Labor Market in Louisiana, 1865-1965," Association of
Historical Racism Studies/International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, September,
1991. This paper was one of twenty five of the forty three submissions accepted for this
international conference.
"The Political Agenda of the Sicilian Peasantry in the Nineteenth Century," The Southeastern
Nineteenth Century Studies Association, April, 1991, New Orleans.
"The Second French Republic and Rome" and commentator for the session, "Literature,
Philosophy, and the Revolution;" The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, February, 1991,
Louisiana State University.
Chair and Commentator, "Italians in the Deep South," American-Italian Historical
Conference, New Orleans, November, 1990.
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"France and the Sicilian Revolution," the Western Society for French History, University of
California, Santa Barbara, November, 1990.
"Sicilian Autonomism," the International Society for the Study of European Ideas conference
at Leuven University, Belgium, September, 1990.
Chair of the session on "The Church, Conservatism, and Revolution," at the Western Society
for French History, New Orleans, October, 1989.
"The Church and the Revolution of 1848 in France," presented at the Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe's September, 1989 meeting at Florida State University, Tallahassee.
"Ventura and the Roman Republic," the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Charleston,
South Carolina, February, 1989. I organized the panel which included Charles Delzell (chair),
Emiliana Noether, and Frank Coppa (commentator).
"Cajun Workers," invited paper presented at at the Premier Colloque International sur les
Francais des Etats-Unis, Centre d'Information et de Recherche sur les Cultures d'Amerique du
Nord, Université Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, January 5, 1989.
"Gioacchino Ventura and the USA," invited paper presented at the conference on "Gioacchino
Ventura e il pensiero politico di ispirazione cristiana dell' Ottocento" at the Centro di Cultura
Scientifica Ettore Majoràna in Erice, Sicily, October 7, 1988.
"Philippe Buchez's Philosophy of History," Faith and History Conference, North Park
College, Chicago, September, 1980.
"Social History of the Louisiana Carpenters: A Report on an LHA Oral History Project,"
Louisiana Historical Association, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1983.
Presided at panel on "Right to Work," Southern Labor History Association Conference,
Atlanta, April, 1980, and presented "Struggles Against 'Right to Work': An Examination of
the Louisiana and Missouri Cases." H.L. Mitchell asked my permission to include this paper
in his Southern Rural Welfare Association Papers, Stanford, N.C.: Micro-film Corporation of
America, 1981.
"The Christian Socialism of Philippe Buchez and the Limits of Social Catholicism," Northern
Great Plains History Conference, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1975.
"The Christian Socialism of Philippe Buchez," Western Society for French History, University
of Northern Arizona, 1974.
Seminars/Presentations
Invited to present to annual lecture on francophone culture at Loyola University of Maryland,
November 9, 2011. My lecture was “Belgium: How can such a small Country be so
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Complicated; The Current Political crisis in Belgium and its Historic Roots.”
Bernard Cook, “United States Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War,” American Studies Center, Moldovan State University, October 17; Moldovan Institute for International Relations, October 16; Slavonic University, Chisinau, Moldova, October 15.
Selected to attend two faculty seminars at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The seminar in June 2010 dealt specifically with the issue of Rescuers and Bystanders during
the Holocaust: The Historical Significance of Morality and Complicity.
Invited to participate in the Hess Faculty Seminar at the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum in January 2008.
Invited to give presentations on the French Revolution at the Conference of the Core
Knowledge Foundation in Atlanta, March 12-13, 1998.
Conducted two day workshops on the demise and breakup of the Soviet Union and the
breakup of Yugoslavia for the National Faculty teachers of the Rapides Parish History Group
in Alexandria, Louisiana on 28-29 March 1995; for the East Baton Rouge Parish History
Group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on 12-13 October 1995; for St. Charles Parish Delta
Academy in Lulling, Louisiana, 22-23 February 1996.
Conducted a two day workshop for public school teachers at Weiner, Arkansas on the
problems in the former Yugoslavia and in Northern Ireland for the National Faculty's Delta
Project on 26-27 January 1995.
Conducted a two day workshop for public school teachers at Lake Village, Arkansas on
contemporary European problems for the National Faculty's Delta Project on 7-8 November
1994.
Selected Radio and Television
Interviewed on Bulgarian Radio concerning the policy of the United States in the Balkans,
September 18, 1999 and September 2000.
Interviewed on WWL Radio concerning the Economic and Political Crisis in Russia, August
28, 1998.
Interviewed on the streetcar strike of 1929 in a Louisiana Committee for the Humanities
sponsored documentary "Streetcar Stories," first aired October 1995. The documentary won
the American Association for State and Local History Award and the National Educational
Film Festival Award, and was a Museum of Modern Art honoree. Distributed by the
University of California.
Interviewed on WWL-TV on the roots of the crisis in Bosnia, August 11, 1992.
Selected Talks
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Invited to participate on a panel at Tulane University on "Frozen Conflicts in the
Territory of the Former Soviet Union" sponsored by the World Affairs Council of New
Orleans. I spoke on the conflicts in Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and South Ossetia,
March 2010.
Invited to give two lectures, “The Use of Appeasement in United States Foreign Policy
Discourse” and “The Impact of September 11 on the United States” at Ovidius University,
Costanta, Romania, and to give a lecture on “The Use of Appeasement in United States
Foreign Policy Discourse” at Hyperion University, Bucharest, October 2008.
Invited to give a talk on Women and War in the Twentieth Century to the monthly seminar of
the Department of History of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. August
21, 2007.
Invited lectures, May 2005
1) “United States Foreign Policy since the 90s,” Tibiscus University,
Timisoara, Romania
2) “United States Foreign Policy since the 90s,” University of the West, Arad,
Romania
3) “The United States, Terrorism, and the War in Iraq,” City Cultural Center,
Timisoara, Romania.
4) “NATO Policy in the Former Yugoslavia,” Serbian
Pedagogical Institute, Vrsac, Serbia.
Invited to conduct two sessions of a seminar on Ethnic Conflict at the University of Utrecht,
February 2005.
Invited to give lectures on the Cold War and Ethnic Minorities in Europe at the University of
Banat, Romania, March 2002.
Power-point presentation on the French Revolution, Newman High School, New Orleans,
February 12, 2002.
Invited to give a lecture to graduate students in foreign relations at the Free University of
Varna, Bulgaria, September 20, 1999.
Invited to present a talk on the Kosovo Conflict at Metairie Park Country Day High School on
May 4, 1999.
Invited participant in Tulane University Law School, International Law Society Symposium
on International Intervention in the Balkans and the Middle East, March 22, 1999.
Invited lecture, "Nascita e sviluppo del Movimento Operaio negli Stati Uniti d'America," at
the University of Palermo, February 18, 1999.
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Invited to give a talk on Agricultural Labor Organizations and Producers' Cooperatives in
Louisiana at the Black Church Institute sponsored by the Greater New Orleans Foundation,
September 25, 1998, Hammond, Louisiana.
Talks on labor history for the Greater New Orleans Central Trades and Labor Council of the
ALF-CIO, Steward Training Workshops, October-November 1997; November 1998.
Many talks on Germany; World War I; World War II; Hitler; and the Holocaust at high
schools, middle schools, and retirement homes in the New Orleans area.
"History of the Teamsters," Cornell University, School of Labor and Industrial Relations
Summer School Teacher Training Program, July, 1986.
Talks on labor history for the Labor Studies Program of Loyola University's Institute of
Human Relations, Spring, 1983, Fall, l987, and Fall, 1989.
"The History of the Carpenters' Union in New Orleans," Carpenters' Hall, New Orleans,
August, 1982.
"Historical Perspectives on Labor Economics," A. Philip Randolph Institute, Southern
University, Baton Rouge, 1977.
Select Consultation
Refereed a grant proposal from an Eastern European University for the Higher Education
Initiative of the Open Society Foundation, 2010.
Refereed a grant proposal from an Eastern European University for the Higher Education
Initiative of the Open Society Foundation, 2009.
Asked by the University of Nebraska Press to review a book manuscript, July 2008.
Refereed grant proposals by three individuals for the Higher Education Initiative of the Open
Society Foundation, 2007-2008.
Evaluated a syllabus developed by a grant recipient teaching at an Eastern European
University for the Higher Education Initiative of the Open Society Foundation, 2007.
Asked by Historical Research, University of London, in 2006 to referee an article on Belgium.
Asked in 2002 by the Organization of American Historians to referee a book in Italian for the
organization’s prize for the best work on American History in another language.
Referee of articles for Louisiana History (two in 1999-2000) and The Journal of Military
History.
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Asked to serve as off-campus evaluator for a candidate for promotion in rank, Tennessee
Technical University, 1997 and 2004.
Expert witness on conditions in Kazakhstan in hearing before an administrative judge of the
appeal of a Russian from Kazakhstan of the refusal of his request for asylum, 1996.
Consultant and evaluator for numerous Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities grants.
Evaluated proposals from Kingston International Communications a for a PBS series on
Europe since l945 and Oxford Press for a German History text.
Contracts from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' "Project 91," to write histories of
the Teamsters' Union in Louisiana and Mississippi, 1986-7.
Advisory Board for Blueprint for Social Justice of Loyola University's Institute for Human
Relations, 1985-1987.
Languages
Italian, German, French, Latin