News of Note
H-PAD at the AHA
Podcasts of our panel “Two More Years of Trump: What Is to Be Done?” from the H-PAD Panel at the 2019 American Historical Association is now available.
We need your help!
Historians for Peace and Democracy has been active during the 2018-2019 academic year. This fall we sent out seven “Voting Rights Alerts” (see blog posts) to help prepare for the midterm elections on November 6. Besides students’ right to vote, our focus this year has been on “Public History,” finding ways to support the Resistance with useful, accessible, accurate materials.
Our “Public History” campaign has three emphases:
- Investing in a much larger social media presence, including webinars, videos, and podcasts;
- Producing many more “Broadsides for the Trump Era” and distributing them widely, via web ads (see our latest, “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in the Caribbean” by Margaret Power);
- Building partnerships with progressive and left organizations and publications to distribute our public, political, and popular history.
You can support this work in two ways: by signing up as an H-PAD Campus Contact and by contributing money:
“Campus Contacts” are just that—people who agree to be public representatives for our organization and act as contacts and liaisons, listed on our website, available as speakers and resources. Please sign up here, and if you want to be a “Community Contact,” that’s fine too.
We also hope you will make a financial contribution. To build our “Public History” campaign, we need funds: to pay for professional help in creating new media; to buy advertising space on the web to distribute our materials widely and freely to everyone who needs them.
If every H-PAD supporter gave just $5, we would have enough to launch our “Public History Fund.” If every one of you gave $10, we could invest in enough web advertising to guarantee reaching the thousands of Indivisible groups, the tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter, DACA, and LGBTQ activists on campus, and the hundreds of thousands of individuals around the country mobilizing for the first time in their communities. The web makes that possible. Will you help, by sending $5 or $10?
H-PAD Steering Committee Newsletter
Historians for Peace and Democracy has released its second newsletter (Nov. 19, 2018). Check it out.