Announcements
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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;…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Trump, Antisemitism & Academia” By Christopher R. Browning, New York Review of Books, April 10 issue “[Trump’s] campaign against campus antisemitism is simply a hypocritical pretext for his assault on American higher education.” The author is a professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina and wrote…
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Every year Historians for Peace and Democracy, in partnership with Radical History Review, organizes our own mini-conference at the AHA. As an affiliate society, our panels are listed in the program and very well-attended [see the 2025 listing]. If you would like to submit a panel or roundtable for next year’s Annual Meeting, January 8-11 in Chicago, please…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Cyberpunk Nation: How Donald Trump’s America Is Being Hacked by White Nationalism” By Juan Cole, TomDispatch, posted February 6 Briefly summarizes the extraordinary damage being inflicted by Elon Musk and his high-tech team, prophesied in part by the “cyberpunk school” of late twentieth-century science fiction, and relates it to the family roots of…
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Political Repression: Then and Now Click this link to view the Youtube Livestream on March 3rd or the recording after. A teach-in by Historians for Peace and Democracy We are pleased to announce an exciting webinar “Political Repression: Then and Now.” The webinar will take place Monday, March 10, 2025 at 3 pm eastern. It…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy” By Clay Risen, Portside, posted February 9 (from Politico) On the McCarthy-era purge of “security risks,” climaxing early in the Eisenhower administration. The US “kneecapped itself, removing thousands of valuable employees and forcing those who remained into unhappy conformity.” The author is a…
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[To sign this petition please complete this form.] We urge you to rescind your veto of the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza and put theresolution to a vote of all AHA members. The Council’s action is undemocratic, reveals a lack oftrust in the judgment of its members, and violates the Association’s and Council’s own…