Announcements
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The US Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide has a new section called “News and Views.” The July 2025 entry offers a concise summary of developments in and around Gaza, including protests in Israel, legislation, and the HPAD scholasticide resolution.
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We are glad to report that four of our six endorsed candidates gained office in the AHA elections held June 1-July 15. Although we very much wish that Annelise Orleck had won as President-Elect and Sherene Seikaly as Vice-President of the Professional Division, the following will take office in January 2026: · Karen Miller, Councilor for the…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It” By Omer Bartov, New York Times, posted July 15 A lengthy essay by a well-known student of genocide, applying the term to Israeli actions in Gaza and decrying the reluctance of most scholars of the Holocaust to see…
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President Trump’s unprovoked, unilateral, illegal attack on Iran follows more than eighteen months in which the US government has enabled Israel’s violation of international law. In continuing Netanyahu’s agenda, he has now paved the way for American casualties, with more death and suffering across the entire Middle East. Congress must take a firm stand against…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest: “Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator” By Timothy W. Ryback, The Atlantic, posted June 12 Tells the story of how, at the outset of Nazi rule in Germany, Hitler maneuvered to crush the partial autonomy of the nation’s component states, especially opposition-controlled Bavaria.…
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Voting begins June 1 and extends until July 15. Watch your email for your personalized link to the ballot or find the link on historians.org/myaha. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact ltownsend@historians.org. To see all candidates and their statements follow this link. We are posting this in advance of that election, to let…
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We are happy to send you our Newsletter #16 providing updates on our current activities. 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: “Poof! It’s Gone: Disappearing the America We Once Knew” By Karen Greenberg, TomDispatch, posted May 13 Quoting Milan Kundera’s novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”), this article delineates the Trump administration’s wholesale erasure of public…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Tax Season and the Making of the American Fiscal State” By Ajay K. Mehrota and John Fabian Witt, Made by History – Time, posted April 16 A historical primer on how and why the US came to replace protective tariffs with a graduated income tax, and how Trump administration actions “are combining…
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Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza Whereas the US government has underwritten the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) campaign in Gaza with $17.9 billion inmilitary aid between October 2023 and October 2024. Whereas that campaign, beyond causing massive death and injury to Palestinian civilians and the collapse of basic lifestructures, has effectively obliterated Gaza’s education system;…