Announcements
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A new, useful documentary on the power of antiwar protest during the Vietnam War. Premiers Tuesday March 28 at 9 PM on PBS. https://www.movementandthemadman.com/ The Movement and The “Madman” – Official Film Site How antiwar protests in 1969 caused President Nixon to cancel his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the Vietnam war. www.movementandthemadman.com
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Dear H-PAD supporters, We don’t send many urgent alerts, but now is the time, and we ask that you take action now. The March 3 letter from the Council of the American Historical Association, copied below, makes clear the stakes of what is involved in Florida House Bill 999. Governor Ron DeSantis and his legislative
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Here is another wonderful event in the ongoing Feinberg Series. Margaret Power Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Antiimperialism https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469674056/solidarity-across-the-americas/
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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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In case you have not seen this statement, please read it and share it. And note the use of the word “horror!” Margaret Power for Historians for Peace and Democracy Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Antiimperialism https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469674056/solidarity-across-the-americas/ Margaret Power Professor of History Emerita Department of Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology
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Fwd: (Please Forward) Feminists Against Empire: Resistance to U.S. Sanctions and Embargoes (Tu, 3/7)
Another excellent event in the Feinberg Series from the UMass History Department.
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H-PAD Steering Committee member Carolyn Eisenberg, author of the new, much acclaimed book, Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia, is leading this excellent webinar tonight, sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action.
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Please note: the campus is closed so tonight's event will ONLY be online. Margaret Power for H-PAD
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The Feinberg Series returns this spring semester on Thursday, Feb 23 at 6pm with the 2023 James Baldwin Lecture by scholar activist Bill Fletcher Jr. Titled “None of Us Is Free Unless All Are Free” the lecture will trace a long arc of anti-imperialism in the Black Radical Tradition from the 1600s to the 1970s. The Baldwin
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RHR and H-PAD supporters: We are planning another set of RHR/H-PAD sessions at the next American Historical Conference.in San Francisco, January 4–7, 2024. The deadline to submit an AHA session proposal for this annual meeting was recently extended to Monday, March 6, at midnight PST. Two proposals by RHR/H-PAD folks have already been submitted, but