H-PAD Notes
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Historians Against the War (HAW) is in transition to Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD), with www.historiansforpeace.org as the new website-in-progress. Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Yes Congress, Afghanistan Is Your Vietnam” By Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, posted August 11 The author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Killing Bill O’Reilly:The Disgraced Broadcaster’s Distortions of History” By Matthew Stevenson, Harpers, July issue A dissection of the right-wing commentator’s new book on World War II in the Pacific. The author note that O’Reilly is currently the nation’s most widely read historian. “A Presumption of Guilt” By Bryan
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A note: The newly constituted HAW Steering Committee has enthusiastically chosen Margaret Power and Van Gosse as the new co-chairs of Historians Against the War. (Marc Becker and I, who have been co-chairs for the past nine years, nominated them.) Van (who teaches at Franklin & Marshall College) was a principal founder of HAW in 2003,