Announcements
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On May 26, 2026, the six officers on the AHA Council’s Executive Committee issued a “A Message from the Executive Committee: Crucial Information for Members on the AHA Election.” This was not an official communication from the sixteen-member Council; nonetheless, it was sent to all AHA members, which constitutes elections interference. Since it directly attacked HPAD, we would…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Witness to a Revolution” By Marc Egnal, History News Network, posted May 21 A personal essay that traces conflicting themes among historians since the author’s time in graduate school in the 1960s regarding the causes of the American Revolution. He offers the desire for westward expansion as a theme that is…
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Notes: A group of scholars from the US, Egypt, and Jordan have established an archive, Remembering Gaza Scholars, with names, affiliations, and photographs of academic colleagues from universities and colleges in Gaza (82 so far) who have died in the Israeli genocide…. New features on the US Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide, sponsored by the Peace History…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Why the US Navy Won’t Blast the Iranians and ‘Open’ Strait of Hormuz” By James A. Russell, Responsible Statecraft, posted March 31 Briefly reviews the history of US naval warfare and argues that the emergence of “cheap, unmanned anti-ship weapons,” as used by Ukraine to neutralize the Russian fleet in the Black…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Of Course Trump Bombed Iran” By Robert Malley and Stephen Wertheim, New York Times, posted March 5 A quick review of US policy toward Iran during recent administrations, finding a consistent assumption, questionable but never questioned, that Iran has presented a threat to US security. Robert Malley was the special US envoy…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance’s America” By Timothy Snyder, Reader Supported News, posted February 2 (from Substack) A long, detailed account of the demonization by JD Vance and (literally) American Nazis of the large Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, now threatened with forcible deportation. The author, who grew up…
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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…