August 2022 – Historians for Peace and Democracy

H-PAD Notes 8/21/22: New source on post-9/11 US foreign policy; links to recent articles of interest

August 22, 2022 Historians for Peace 0

Note: Historians Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov have produced a 64,000-word, illustrated and extensively documented essay on “Afghanistan, Iraq, and the ‘War on Terror'” as […]

New resource: Afghanistan, Iraq, and the “war on terror”

August 7, 2022 Roger Peace 0

Dear colleagues and friends, The search for truth has been front and center in Congress of late. Hearings have been held probing conspiratorial plots to […]

This is a series of one-page, printable handouts that summarize important historical events, movements, crises, and more that form the backdrop for our current political situation.

Ellen Schrecker, “McCarthyism, 1947-1960“
Jeremy Kuzmarov, “The U.S. War on Drugs“
Linda Gordon, “The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s“
Robert Oppenheim, “North Korea and Nuclear Weapons“
Geoff Eley, “Is Trump a Fascist?“
Felice Batlan, “Building a Regime of Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1840-1945“
Margaret Power, “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in the Caribbean“
Van Gosse, “Why The United States Is Not A True Democracy, Part One“
Kevin A. Young, “Our Debt to Central American Refugees” also available as a text version with hyperlinks
Van Gosse, “Why the United States Is Not a True Democracy, Part Two”