Announcements
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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
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Genocide Scholars: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, and We Should Know” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment, posted September 6 On the August 31 adoption of a resolution in which the International Association of Genocide Scholars (by an 86% majority of those voting) found that Israeli actions in Gaza fit the definition
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Below is the text of a Resolution in Solidarity with Gaza which we urge all current AHA members to sign, so as to place it on the agenda of the Business Meeting set for January 10, 2026, during the Association’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. This resolution was developed in partnership with the Palestinian Historians Group and Historians
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?” By Eric Ross, TomDispatch, posted August 12 On the meanings attached to the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, both in the immediate aftermath and in the decades since. The author is a peace activist and a PhD candidate in history at