Marc Becker
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Remembering Muted Voices Symposium 19-22 October 2017 National World War I Museum Kansas City. Early Bird Registration is Friday 8th September. After this date registration goes up to $125. For registration and more information on the Symposium including a program overview, speaker abstracts/bios, co-sponsors, and more, visit theworldwar.org/mutedvoices
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The Vietnam War is back in the news and is again creating tensions and divisions. The Pentagon is engaged in a 10 year public relations campaign to honor Vietnam era veterans while at the same time promoting its version of the history of the war. Public Broadcasting System is about to launch a two week…
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Historians Against the War (HAW) is in transition to Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD), with www.historiansforpeace.org as the new website-in-progress. Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Yes Congress, Afghanistan Is Your Vietnam” By Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, posted August 11 The author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston…
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The fiftieth anniversary of the Vietnam War has rekindled the contest over interpretations and lessons of the war. The battle is reverberating in the public square. Let’s start with the Pentagon. In 2008, Congress passed a law instructing the Pentagon to initiate a 13-year commemoration of the Vietnam War, beginning on Memorial Day, May 28,…
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Dear members of H-PAD, Since we announced our new direction and new name on July 4, H-PAD has really taken off. Along with our new name, we have created a new low-volume announce-only email list that will keep you abreast of our work. If you would like to join the list, you can do so…
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Dear Members of H-PAD, Professor Rabab Abdul Hadi and the Arab Muslim and Ethnicities Diasporas (AMED) Studies program at San Francisco State University (SFSU) have been the target of a number of attacks by right-wing Zionist organizations over the last year. In June of this year, one such group, the Lawfare Project filed a…
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Dear Friends of HAW/Historians for Peace and Democracy, We are writing you because you were once a member of Historians Against the War (HAW) or signed a HAW petition. We want to let you know about some changes we have undergone recently and our current campaign. We hope you will rejoin HAW and/or become active…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Killing Bill O’Reilly:The Disgraced Broadcaster’s Distortions of History” By Matthew Stevenson, Harpers, July issue A dissection of the right-wing commentator’s new book on World War II in the Pacific. The author note that O’Reilly is currently the nation’s most widely read historian. “A Presumption of Guilt” By Bryan…
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“The Vietnam War, 1954-1975,” is now available on the “United States Foreign Policy: History & Resource Guide,” a website sponsored by Historians for Peace and Democracy and Peace History Society. The essay examines, step-by-step, the series of imperious actions and public deceptions entailed in the 21-year effort to carve out a separate state in southern…
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A note: The newly constituted HAW Steering Committee has enthusiastically chosen Margaret Power and Van Gosse as the new co-chairs of Historians Against the War. (Marc Becker and I, who have been co-chairs for the past nine years, nominated them.) Van (who teaches at Franklin & Marshall College) was a principal founder of HAW in 2003,…