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Tuesday, April 26, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Civil War history is KU professor's love
Students occupy many of the cubbyholes in Watson Library in preparation for finals. Stop day is Monday, and finals are scheduled through May 12.
Late night
Kansan staff writer
Bv lames Buckman
A 444-page book with 16 pages of illustrations and photographs will roll off the presses of Harper & Row Publishers August in New York. After the journey to Kansas, it will be his third visit to Kansas. Philp Paulidon, professor of history.
One would think a single book would get lost in Lapalda's office. Many books, thick and thin, dominate his office and are stacked to the ceiling around his desk and computer.
But a niche in the bookshelf already has been saved for that book. And it certainly won't get lost.
Paludan has been waiting for it — for about 10 years.
That book, "A People's Contest," is the culmination of a 10-year affair the teacher has had with writing the Northern perspective of the Civil War. It is part of a history series started in the late 1940s by two men who took an idea, that of signing up authors nationwide to do a definitive series of U.S. history, to Harper & Row.
But writing a history book was the last thing on Paladan's mind in the 1940s. He was just a boy passing the time in one of several towns in the United States and Canada in which he grew up.
It would be several years after the project was started that Paludan would receive his assignment.
"The first person they signed up just decided he couldn't do it." Palauan said. "The second person they signed up, so I got it sort of third generation."
Paludan was an untested author at the time, though his master's dissertation had been published. Ten years later, Paludan has several books to his credit, including "The Covenant Constitution" and "Constitution and civil rights during the Civil War," and "Victims," which is the true story of a mountain valley
The Civil War is Phillip Paludan's specialty, but you won't find a Civil War museum in his house.
during the Civil War.
During most mornings, his favorite time to write, he can be found at his office typewriter peeking on his aides. He is also the president of the Abraham Lincoln presidency
Paludan's interest in writing and teaching started not with an interest in the Civil War, but with an education in college. He attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.
"It was a small college, and professors kept their doors open until 4 o'clock," he said. "I went in and talked to the guards, the guy, and it lasted for four years."
Paludan's interest in history was kindled through those conversations. Eventually, after a brief job at IBM and more education at UCLA and the University of Illinois, he wound up at KU where he teaches classes in Civil War history, U.S. Constitutional history and Western Civilization.
For some people at KU, he has become the same type of mentor that he had found in that office at Occidental College.
Bob McWilliams, an assistant instructor in history, has been a teaching assistant for Paludan and was advised by Paludan on his master's thesis. He said Paludan was one of the reasons he quit practicing law and came back to KU to go to graduate school in history.
"It wasn't so much that he suggested it," McWilliams said. "We just talked about the different life-styles and what was good or bad about teaching and having an academic career.
"I probably keep him from getting any work done because I talk in his office."
The Civil War is Paladan's special, but you won't find a Civil War museum in his house. For him, the love and challenge of writing is found not in facts but in the examination of ideas, regardless of the subject mat-
"I spend a lot of time trying to smash ideas together to see if they fit together." he said.
He is happiest when some of those ideas fit.
"And sometimes you get a question that pops in your head and you just dig, dig, dig. You just can't get there," I think because there are just no answers."
"Sometimes it just gets exciting," he said. "I did a short book that was so much fun because I'd get a question." I would have answered in two days.
Puladan said that along with the excitement of completing a book came the sometimes painful experience of having people in far off places
"You get your ego bashed a lot," he said. "You get a rhythm or a music or something of your own writing so you know the feel of it, and somebody all of a sudden breaks that."
Writing certainly dominates a large part of Paladan's day. But he said that teaching is where he found his day-to-day gratification.
Rita Napier, an associate professor of history, has known Paludan since she came to KU in 1973. She said that he had taught about teaching and about other issues.
we often meet in the louge and talk," she said. "I may have had the best intellectual discussions that I've had with Phil Pallan in these settings."
McWilliams said Paludan's classes caused him more concern than his writing did.
"When I've seen him most discouraged is when he is teaching, and can't just get through to people." Williams said. "He loves to teach."
Dukakis and Jackson disagree on concessions to terrorists
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Michael Dukakis and Jesse Jackson differed yesterday over whether any concessions should be made to terrorists holding U.S. hostage, while a new survey said Dukakis was expected to have another big-state presidential primary victory in Pennsylvania.
You never make concessions to terrorists — ever, "
Dukaik told reporters during a final campaign swing across the state before today's primary.
Jackson rejected what he called material concessions to terrorists but did not rule out political accommodation. He also said he could conceive of situations where he could not obstruct or provoke "I should not obstruct an invasion." "I should obstruct never blind bloody confrontation."
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"If we are going to deter terrorism, we must address
the underlying causes of terrorism. Terrorism does not emerge out of the blue." He spoke after an appearance at a high school in Pittsburgh.
the candidates agreed that in hostage situations, the government ought to talk to people who could bring about the release of persons being held.
U. S. policy maintains that U.S. officials will talk to any official or group about the safety and release of hostages,
but will not make concessions, according to the State Department.
But Jackson said, "The fact is that our government has talked with terrorists and has negotiated, in some instances successfully. It is good as a policy, but there must be always flexibility in the policy. . . . We ought to take every initiative we can to gain the freedom of the American hostages in Beirut."
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