Announcements
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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;…
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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…