H-PAD Notes
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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
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Is Putin in a Corner?” By John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, posted September 29 “The challenge is to force the Russian leader into the kind of middle position where he can preserve Russia’s regional power without the occupation of Ukraine and its superpower status without the use of
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The Complicity of the Textbooks” By Eric Foner, New York Review of Books, September 22 issue An extensive review essay on Donald Yacavone's new book Teaching White Supremacy, an account of how US history textbooks, from the early twentieth century to the 1880s, treated issues of slavery, Reconstruction, and
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H-PAD Notes 8/21/22: New source on post-9/11 US foreign policy; links to recent articles of interest
Note: Historians Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov have produced a 64,000-word, illustrated and extensively documented essay on “Afghanistan, Iraq, and the ‘War on Terror'” as an addition to the United States Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide 2022, a website co-sponsored by the Peace History Society and Historians for Peace and Democracy. Links to Recent
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “What Difference Does a War Make? The Geopolitics of the New Cold War” By Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch.com, posted June 21 “In this century, as in the last one, the geopolitical struggle over Eurasia has proven to be a relentless affair, one that, in the years to come, will likely