Historians for Peace
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Hello, H-PAD started this project, which is growing rapidly. Any faculty interested in supporting student voting are welcome! Webinar: Science is Rising: Turning out the STEM Vote in 2020Melissa Varga and Raena Garcia of the Union of Concerned Scientists to lead a webinar on how to increase the STEM student vote leading up to the 2020…
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H-PAD Members and Supporters, Attached is Historians for Peace and Democracy Newsletter #6. In it we call all H-PADers to action in the final eight weeks before the election. We feel that widespread mobilizations of all sorts are needed, and these mobilizations can only emerge if activists and radical intellectuals become self activated—if we look…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Patton and Westy Meet in a Bar” By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted September 10 A fanciful alcohol-fueled conversation between long-dead generals George Patton and William Westmoreland and a fictitious general who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author is a retired Army colonel and a professor emeritus of…
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Friends of H-PAD, As you may remember, in the spring we launched the Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights. It has really taken off! We now have several hundred faculty members around the country, and strong partnerships with the leading national organizations that students' electoral empowerment. One of those groups, the SLSV Coalition, sent out the…
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The crisis deepens, the struggle continues Newsletter attached. Historians for Peace and Democracy Andor Skotnes Professor of History H-PAD-Newsletter-5-send.pdf
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A Congressional Update follows the list of articles. Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was Unnecessary” By Gar Alperovitz and Martin Sherwin, CommonDreams.org, posted August 6 (from the Los Angeles Times) Argues that the imminent entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan was sufficient to…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “A Brief History of Dangerous Others” By Richard Kreitner and Rick Perlstein, NYR [New York Review of Books' Daily, posted July 27 On the long history of “outside agitators” in the US, from slavery days to today's Black Lives Matter protests. Richard Kreitner writes for The Nation and has…
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Dear Friends, At a time when the outlook for covid is anything but positive in the United States, it's helpful to read this article by H-PAD member Pat Manning. One of the key lines in it is, “Common people are supporting each other with energy and imagination.” https://www.21global.ucsb.edu/global-e/june-2020/let-s-revive-economy-we-contained-covid Margaret Power and Van Gosse
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work” By Kevin A. Young, Yes! magazine, posted July 8 Uses examples from abolitionism, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam antiwar movement. The author teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “The Story Behind the Lee Statue in Richmond, Virginia” By…