Historians for Peace
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View in browser Dear HPAD members (including many of you who are new), Last night, a packed AHA Business Meeting voted 428-88 in favor of our Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza. This vote was the product of months of careful organizing by our Steering Committee, our superb staff organizers, and a solid cadre…
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View in browser Dear HPAD members, We are promoting participation in one of two surveys created by the American Historical Association that seek to collect data on the working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty. Please take a moment to read the following message from the AHA: “The Professional Division of the American Historical Association seeks to collect…
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View in browser Dear HPAD members, My name is Stone Peterson, I am one of the staff organizers with Historians for Peace and Democracy. I am a 2nd year PhD student historian at Arizona State University. My colleagues and I would not be able to maintain the work that we do without your support! We…
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View in browser Dear HPAD members, If you will be at the AHA in New York city, here is our schedule: Radical History Review/HPAD Mini-Conference (17 panels, January 3-6) HPAD Members Caucus, Saturday, January 4, Noon-1:30 pm, Concourse B, Lower Level, New York Hilton Roundtable: “The 2024 Presidential Election: Where Do We Go from Here?”…
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View in browser Dear HPAD Member, We are happy to release our Newsletter #15 providing updates on our current activities. Click on any of the pages of the newsletter to access a PDF version with functional links. Thank you for reading, Margaret Power and Van Gosse, H-PAD Co-Chairs Follow us on social Historians for Peace…
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View in browser Links to Recent Articles of Interest “When Does Power Concede? Thwarting MAGA Will Take More than Protest and Symbolic Resistance” By Van Gosse, The Nation, posted November 19 On the mixed history of “states’ rights” in the US, evoking the legacy of northern resistance to fugitive slave laws before the Civil War…
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HPAD members, Netanyahu Arriving in DC Today! Our Voices Needed! The crisis in Gaza and the West Bank continues, although eclipsed by election news. Netanyahu is arriving in Washington today and will meet with a now weakened President Biden. In a disgraceful development, leaders of the House and Senate (including Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer)…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The Regional Origins of America’s First Comprehensive Immigration Law” By Devin E. Naar, Made by History – Time, posted July 6 On the background of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 and its author, Rep. Albert Johnson (R-Wash). “Even as the primary targets of immigration restrictionism…
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HPAD members, The Israel Palestine Working Group of Historians for Peace and Democracy has produced a new video titled Stand Against AIPAC. The video contains slides about The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its influence over US politics. This is especially pressing information as Netanyahu’s visit to Congress on the 24…
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Responding to President Biden’s ambiguous threat to cut off weapons to Israel, if its military proceeded with the offensive in Rafah, House Republicans have introduced a bill to block Biden from freezing arms transfers. If passed, this would be an unprecedented attempt by Congress to prevent human rights from even being considered in weapons transfers. This…