Historians for Peace
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Note: Historians for Peace and Democracy is gathering signatures for a proposed resolution on the “right to learn” for the January 4-7 AHA meeting in San Francisco. In order for it to be considered by the business meeting, 227 current AHA members must sign by October 1. Click here for the wording of the proposal…
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Dear H-PAD supporters and friends, We have until October 1 to submit this resolution for consideration at the Business Meeting during the AHA Annual Meeting, January 4-7, 2024 in San Francisco. AHA leaders have been defending “the right to learn,” and this resolution urges all Association members to get involved. We need 227 members…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Ecuador Heads to Presidential Runoff with Opposing Visions on the Ballot” By Marc Becker, Nacla, posted August 21 A detailed analysis of the upcoming Ecuadoran election, with background on the social dynamics of the country's recent history. The author teaches Latin American history at Truman State University in Missouri,…
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LInks to Recent Articles of Interest “American Carnage” By Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books, August 17 issue A review essay on Jeffrey Toobin's new book Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism (Simon and Schuster, 2023), which links right-wing anti-government violence to Republican politics going back to the Reagan administration. The…
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Note: H-PAD announces an extensively updated version of its Culture Wars Archive, coordinated by Molly Nolan. Organized topically, It consists of around two hundred articles and statements from the past few years' of right-wing attacks on education – and resistance to the attacks. Another Note: A June 26 webinar on “Shifting Power Dynamics: Ukraine, Russia,…
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Dear H-PAD, Please consider signing and circulating this open letter in support of Penn State faculty who are being targeted by the Right — in the form of a lawsuit and public defamation — for their antiracist pedagogy. You can read the letter and access links to relevant background here: https://forms.gle/o4un9e32XDec9Ypc7. As you know, these attacks…
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Dear H-PAD members, We would like to call your attention to this important conference, which will take place on July 28 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C and be live streamed to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the armistice on the Korean Peninsula. The poster for it is attached. As Linda Yarr wrote us: Unlike…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Politics Returns to Russia” By Timothy Snyder, Substack, posted June 5 A complex description of conflicts within Russian military forces and the impact of cross-border raids inside Russia by Russian fighters allied with Ukraine.”The war in Ukraine has restarted Russian politics: not necessarily in ways that are pleasant to…
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H-PAD members, I’m writing today to share news of a workshop being organized by HELU (Higher Education Labor United) on June 20. HELU is a relatively new coalition of academic labor unions that is doing some very smart work bringing labor activists together to create the basis of a national movement for social justice…
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Report on the Struggle in Florida and Request for Support From PaulOrtiz, United Faculty of Florida From: Paul Ortiz <ortizprof@gmail.com> Date: May 16, 2023 at 03:16:03 EDT Subject: Labor Update from Florida, Announcement of Union Lawsuit Against Governor DeSantis Dear Colleagues, Many of you have contacted me in recent days about the tyrannical, anti-union legislation…