Announcements
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HPAD members, HPAD is sharing the following message in solidarity with our comrades in the Palestinian Historians Group: We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes We, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and
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We want to share the news of our victories at the recent American Historical Association meeting in Chicago. On Jan. 10, 2026, the AHA Business Meeting passed the Resolution in Solidarity with Gaza by a vote of 282 to 76 and the Resolution Opposing Attacks on Core Principles of Education by a vote of 245 to 62. Barbara Weinstein, HPAD,
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Today, Trump’s Target Was Caracas. What Tomorrow?” By Stephen Wertheim, The Guardian, posted January 4 Liken’s Trump’s claim of success in Venezuela to his initial “This is genius” response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Now, “Trump has thrown a country of around 28 million people into uncertainty and tossed
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[Our email of earlier today was in error regarding the action of the Modern Language Association’s Executive Council, which has forwarded to their membership the Resolution Opposing Attacks on Core Principles of Education for discussion and a vote at the 2026 Delegate Assembly meeting. We regret this unfortunate mistake.] Dear HPAD members, We are writing to you in
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’” By Dan Kaufman, New York Review of Books, December 4 issue Review essay on Paul Preston’s Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain (William Collins, 2024). “As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us
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Below is a list of frequently asked questions developed for the Resolution in Solidarity with Gaza. Click here or on the images of the FAQs below to access a downloadable pdf.
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Below is our Newsletter #17 providing updates on our current activities and a schedule of our panels at the 2026 AHA. Click on any of the pages of the newsletter to access a PDF version with functional links.
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Trump’s Squeeze of Venezuela Goes Beyond the Monroe Doctrine” By Alan McPherson, Portside, posted November 4 (from The Conversation) Runs through two centuries of US policy in Latin America, concluding that the current military buildup aimed at Venezuela “is in key respects both unprecedented and shocking. It could also
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Benjamin Netanyahu’s Abuse of History for Politics” By Yoram Meital, Informed Comment, posted September 30 Cites multiple inaccuracies in a claim by Netanyahu that Arab conquests of Biblical lands in the seventh century triggered a centuries-long pattern of Muslims repressing Jews in the region. “Netanyahu’s statements, past and present, are not slips of
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HPAD is hosting a webinar titled, Troops in the Street: What Does an Authoritarian Takeover Look Like? The webinar will take place October 8 at 6 PM Eastern. Historians Barbara Ransby and Barbara Weinstein will discuss questions related to the current crisis including: What does an authoritarian takeover look like?How have authoritarian takeovers been effectively resisted?What can we do to resist one today? For a