Marc Becker
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In May 2018, H-PAD assisted in the distribution of a letter protesting the selection of U.S. Army General David Petraeus as keynote speaker at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) conference in June. Initiated by New York University professor Hannah Gurman, the latter garnered 277 signatures from scholars. The letter did not question the…
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H-PAD joined with the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee (VPCC) and the Veterans for Peace is cosponsoring and publicizing events and conferences related to the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre in March 1968. The VPCC is challenging the Pentagon’s mandate to present the history of the Vietnam War to the public. Contributing to this effort is…
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This is a practical manual for organizing a campus coalition to register and turn-out students to vote, based on what we have done at Franklin & Marshall since 2004. You can use any part of it, or adapt it to your campus. Please feel free to write me, Van Gosse, at van.gosse@fandm.edu, with any questions…
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On March 16th, 1968 , over 500 Vietnamese men, women and children were killed in the hamlets of My Lai-4 and My Khe in Quang Ngai Province by American soldiers in what became known as the MY LAI massacre, the most notorious atrocity in the Vietnam War. The events were immediately covered up and were…
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The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today. Christian G. Appy January 26, 2018 Boston Review Image: Aftermath of the Tet Offensive in Saigon, 1968 / manhhai This essay is featured in Boston Review’s print issue, Fifty Years Since MLK. Pre-order your copy…
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PLEASE SHARE! Save the date! Defusing the US-North Korea Conflict: Building on the Olympic Truce Christine Ahn International Coordinator Women Cross the DMZ Saturday, February 10, 2018 7 PM First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany 405 Washington Ave. Light Refreshments Christine Ahn organized the 2015 Women’s March across the Korean DMZ, including Nobel Peace Laureates,…
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Christian G. Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Carolyn Eisenberg is a professor of history at Hofstra University. They were interviewed by the History News Network‘s Rick Shenkman on January 6, 2018 at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association following the panel, “A Fateful Misunderstanding: A Discussion…
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Margaret Power is a Professor of History at Illinois Tech and the author of Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973. She was interviewed by the History News Network‘s Rick Shenkman on January 6, 2018 at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association after appearing on a roundtable organized by…
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Marv Gettleman (1933-2017) was one of the founders and a strong stalwart of H-Pad’s predecessor organization Historians Against the War (see our tribute to him). Marv was also on the editorial board of Science and Society, and they printed the following remembrance in the October 2017 issue of their journal: MARVIN E. GETTLEMAN, 1933–2017 We…
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University of Massachusetts Amherst October 12, 2017 The UMass Amherst chapter of Historians for Peace and Democracy, in conjunction with the UMass History department and over two dozen co-sponsors, hosted an interactive roundtable event on October 12th as part of H-PAD’s nationwide event series. The first part of the event featured a short historical introduction…