Historians for Peace
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H-PAD Supporters Colleagues, The H-PAD SC has recently been involved with national groups that are organizing activities during the Winter Olympics and Paralympics to educate the US public about the current Korea crisis, and to oppose US war with North Korea. Using the tradition of the truce during the ancient Olympics as a metaphor, this…
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Colleagues, Disrupted by weather-related transportation problems, H-PAD nonetheless was a presence at the American Historical Association Meeting last weekend. Below are two brief reports on our activities at the conference, plus two links to History News Network interviews with three H-PAD colleagues. (Jim O’Brien earlier sent these links out, but we are resending them in…
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Note: The History News Network has posted two interviews from the recent AHA convention that are especially relevant to Historians for Peace and Democracy. One is with co-chair Margaret Power about H-PAD and the urgency of the Korean crisis. The other is with Steering Committee member Rusti Eisenberg and Chris Appy on shortcomings of the…
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[If you are at the AHA this weekend, please join us tomorrow; if you know someone who is there, please pass this on to her or him.] Roundtable: A Fateful Misunderstanding: A Discussion of the Film Documentary “The Vietnam War” by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The PBS documentary on the Vietnam War has already…
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Historians for Peace and Democracy Dear H-PAD supporter, I am writing for the steering committee to update you on upcoming H-PAD actions. First and foremost are our activities at the upcoming American Historical Association Conference in Washington, DC, January 5 and 6—a flyer on our AHA activities is attached. For those of you who will…
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Dear H-PAD members, In preparation for the AHA conference, some of us on the Steering Committee are putting together a summary of recent H-PAD activities. If you’ve organized an event and haven’t told us about it, please let me know so we can include it with these other recent events. Thanks, Kevin…
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For those attending the AHA convention in Washington, DC next month, here are two sessions that may be of particular interest. Both are on Saturday morning, January 6 at the main convention hotel, the Marriott Wardman Park. 8:30-10:00: Roundtable: "A Fateful Misunderstanding: A Discussion of the Film Documentary The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn…
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MARHO: The Radical Historians Organization and Historians for Peace and Democracy Invite you to a public roundtable: What Should Historians Do in a Time of Crisis? Saturday, January 6, 2018 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Roosevelt Room 4 (Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibition Level) Agenda will include: A brief history of Historians Against the War and its transition…
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Notes: 1. Peace Action New York State has organized an on-line "Twitter town hall" with scholars responding to questions on US Korea policy from the Korean War to the present, November 11 from 2 to 3pm Eastern time. Anyone can sign on (at #KoreaTownHall) and post a question. Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) is…
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To members and friends of Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD), In addition to our occasional set of links to recent articles relevant to H-PAD's concerns, this mailing includes a call for papers sent by David Cortright for a May 22-24 historical conference on antiwar opposition in the military, sponsored by the Kroc Institute for…