Historians for Peace
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U.S.-China Update Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy Issue #35 ~ October, 2022 ~ Subscribe at:
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Is Putin in a Corner?” By John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, posted September 29 “The challenge is to force the Russian leader into the kind of middle position where he can preserve Russia’s regional power without the occupation of Ukraine and its superpower status without the use of…
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Oops! Monday is the 19th not the 17th. Sorry about that. Margaret On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 12:13 PM Margaret Power via H-PAD <h-pad@lists.historiansforpeace.org> wrote: Dear H-PAD Members, We are pleased to share with you an annoucement of a series of important events organized by the Dept. of History at U Mass Amherst and…
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Dear H-PAD Members, We are pleased to share with you an annoucement of a series of important events organized by the Dept. of History at U Mass Amherst and co-sponsored by H-PAD. The not-to-be-missed kick-off event features Dr.Rogoberta Menchú Tum speaking on U.S. Policy in the Global South. Other speakers include Vincent Bevins and Amy…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The Complicity of the Textbooks” By Eric Foner, New York Review of Books, September 22 issue An extensive review essay on Donald Yacavone's new book Teaching White Supremacy, an account of how US history textbooks, from the early twentieth century to the 1880s, treated issues of slavery, Reconstruction, and…
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Dear H-PAD members and friends, We have had a busy spring and summer, as historians and activists: In collaboration with the African American Policy Forum and the AAUP, we helped organize a campaign that encouraged over 50 Faculty Senates to pass resolutions denouncing the educational gag orders passed by state legislatures. In 2022 alone 137 bills to…
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H-PAD Notes 8/21/22: New source on post-9/11 US foreign policy; links to recent articles of interest
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 an addition to the United States Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide 2022, a website co-sponsored by the Peace History Society and Historians for Peace and Democracy. Links to Recent…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest Biden's Unkind, Rewind Approach to the Middle East” By Andrew J. Bacevich, The Nation, posted July 27 On President' Biden's trip to the Middle East, most notably Saudi Arabia and Israel. The “not-so-subtle purpose” was “to signal that Biden has no intention of tampering with the fundamentals actually defining…
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Finally, there is an effort by Congressional Representatives to call for diplomacy in resolving the Ukraine crisis. The Chair of the Progressive Caucus Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is circulating a letter to her colleagues, addressed to President Biden. While endorsing the Administration’s decision to support the government of Ukraine, it emphasizes that this contribution “also creates…
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Approaching the 50th Anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreement (January 1973) –signifying the end of the US War in Vietnam, the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee is offering to partner with academic institutions to create individual programs or a full-conference on the “Power of Protest”–the role of peace activism during that period. For more details, see the attached.…