Historians for Peace
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Historians for Peace and Justice, Newsletter #4 H-PAD Members and Supporter, H-PAD Occasional Newsletter #4–which focuses on resources and reports for H-PAD related activities during the current crisis—is attached. Please send feedback on Newsletter #4, and suggestions for our next newsletter to Andor Skotnes, skotna@sage.edu, or Kevin Young, kayoung@umass.edu. And check out the…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down” By Nick Mirzoeff, Hyperallergic, posted June 30 On the historical background of the Roosevelt statue, with its racial hierarchy, at the American Museum of Natural History. The author is a scholar of visual culture who teaches in the Department…
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Dear friends, We are writing about H-PAD's new project, the Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights, a nonpartisan national effort to enlist faculty at all levels as public allies to students seeking to vote. Please read our “Open Letter to College and University Faculty” explaining why this network is urgently needed to challenge voter suppression amid the new…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Juneteenth: Activists Across US Inherit a Historic Battle for Racial Justice” By Kenya Evelyn, The Guardian, posted June 19 A history of the observance of Juneteenth, the holiday that, according to President Trump, “nobody had ever heard about.” “The Cops Can Be Defeated – But Not by Taking Obama's…
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H-PAD strongly supports the Poor People's Campaign, and urges its supporters to participate in the June 20 We Rise Together Assembly and Moral March on Washington! Van Gosse and Margaret Power, Co-Chairs
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H-PAD endorses this urgently-needed webinar on the connections between racialized policing and universities! Van Gosse and Margaret Power, Co-Chairs
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H-PAD Members: H-PAD Newsletter #3 on responding to the crisis is attached. Newsletter-3-Current-Crisis-6.14..20.pdf
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Richmond's Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood” By Kevin M. Levin, The Atlantic, posted June 11 “Real Estate Developers used the statues on Monument Avenue to draw white buyers to a neighborhood where houses could not be sold 'to any person of African descent.'” The author…
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H-PAD members and friends, Duke University Press has made all of issue 137 of the Radical History Review “Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination” freely available for a few months. Duke has updated a previously-published Police Violence Syllabus . It features the Policing issue as well as two articles from earlier issues. Also see the…
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Statement of the Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) on the Current Struggle H-PAD condemns the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. We stand with many, many others to demand justice for George Floyd, his family, and his community. We stand with many others to demand that the historic and structural…