Historians for Peace
-
On Thursday, April 22 Massachusetts Peace Action will be holding a zoom forum on the US use and abuse of economic sanctions. It will feature the Empire of Sanctions syllabus that three H-Pad members put together and that provides useful and accessible resources for teachers and activists concerned about this increasingly prevalent weapon of…
-
For more information on the conference and registration: https://www.umass.edu/history/ellsberg-conference History News Network, http://hnn.us/article/179723
-
Note: “Truth, Dissent & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg,” a virtual national conference commemorating the release of the Pentagon Papers 50 years ago, will take place Friday and Saturday April 30 and May 1, sponsored by the History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The speakers list is extraordinary, including Ellsberg himself as well…
-
If you wish to sign this urgently-needed letter, please go to https://forms.gle/eJhXePzoSW6KTP1e6 For information on the strike, see Graduate Workers of Columbia University/UAW Local 2110. Our deadline is Noon on Sunday, April 4. Van Gosse and Margaret Power, Co-Chairs Dear Provost Katznelson, We write you as fellow historians. Your scholarship in working-class history has been of…
-
Rejoining the Iran Deal? Legislative update Despite campaign promises to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, the Biden Administration has failed to reverse Trump’s failed “maximum pressure” policy -imposing crushing sanctions on a nation of 83 million people amidst a global pandemic. In the intervening months, AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) has lobbied members of Congress to…
-
Newsletter #8, attached, updates several current H-PAD activities, and announces a future effort at the 2022 American Historical Association Conference H-PAD Executive Committee H-PAD-Newsletter-8-1.pdf
-
Dear supporters of H-PAD, There is an important effort underway, led by Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL) and and Defending Rights and Dissent (DRD) to seek the Department of Justice's full declassification of FBI files on slain Chicago Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton. You may sign the petition here. With the release of a major movie, Judas and the Black Messiah, documenting…
-
Note: Historians for Peace and Democracy has published Empire of Sanctions, a 14-part syllabus on the nature and history of economic sanctions, focusing especially on their use by the US since the early 20th century. All the assigned readings are available on the Web. The historians who compiled it are Renate Bridenthal, CUNY (emerita); Molly…
-
Dear Historians for Peace and Democracy, Renate Bridenthal, Molly Nolan and I from the Empire Working Group have finished at last the syllabus on economic sanctions–their forms, legality, and effectiveness, their history across the twentieth century and their current deployment, as well as blowback from and resistance to them. The syllabus can be used in…
-
H-PAD Friends and Supporters, You have probably received a fair amount of information about our new Virtual Speakers Program, and more is available on the H-PAD website at https://historiansforpeace.org/speakers/ We have, however, received requests for a concise list of the speakers that can be quickly browsed. Here it is. H-PAD Virtual Speakers-Concise List…