H-PAD Notes
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Ecuador Heads to Presidential Runoff with Opposing Visions on the Ballot” By Marc Becker, Nacla, posted August 21 A detailed analysis of the upcoming Ecuadoran election, with background on the social dynamics of the country's recent history. The author teaches Latin American history at Truman State University in Missouri,…
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LInks to Recent Articles of Interest “American Carnage” By Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books, August 17 issue A review essay on Jeffrey Toobin's new book Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism (Simon and Schuster, 2023), which links right-wing anti-government violence to Republican politics going back to the Reagan administration. The…
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Note: H-PAD announces an extensively updated version of its Culture Wars Archive, coordinated by Molly Nolan. Organized topically, It consists of around two hundred articles and statements from the past few years' of right-wing attacks on education – and resistance to the attacks. Another Note: A June 26 webinar on “Shifting Power Dynamics: Ukraine, Russia,…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Politics Returns to Russia” By Timothy Snyder, Substack, posted June 5 A complex description of conflicts within Russian military forces and the impact of cross-border raids inside Russia by Russian fighters allied with Ukraine.”The war in Ukraine has restarted Russian politics: not necessarily in ways that are pleasant to…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “History Bright and Dark” By Adam Hochschild, New York Review of Books, May 25 issue Combines a critical introduction to Hillsdale College's 3,268-page right-wing “1776 Curriculum” with a review of the documentary series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones for the 1619 Project. The author is known for his best-selling history…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The Beautiful Struggle” By Manisha Sinha, New York Review of Books, April 20 issue An extensive review essay on African American political activism and thought before the Civil War. The author teaches US history at the University of Connecticut and has published several books on slavery and Abolitionism. “Teaching…
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Note: The 80-minute PBS documentary The Movement and the Madman, which premiered last night (March 28) showing the influence of the Vietnam antiwar movement on Nixon's Vietnam policy, is available via livestream through April 27. Also, Vietnam War historian Chris Appy is interviewed on Jon Wiener's podcast about the events depicted in the documentary. …
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The American War from Hell, 20 Years Later: How Washington Lost Its Moral Compass in Iraq” By Juan Cole, TomDispatch, posted March 9 Written in advance of the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion (March 20, 2003). “Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin?” The author…
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“The U.S. Response to the Holocaust Was Part of a Longer Pattern of Appeasing Fascism” By Roger Peace, History News Network, posted October 30 Argues that US policy long tolerated the Mussolini and Hitler regimes. “Essentially, the policy of appeasement was based on the view that communism constituted a mortal threat to Western society, whereas…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Why the U.S. Must Press for a Ceasefire in Ukraine” By Jack F. Matlock, Responsible Statecraft, posted October 17 A historically grounded argument by the last US ambassador (1987-91) to the Soviet Union. Among his books is Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (Random House, 2004). “Bye…