Announcements
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Dear H-PAD Supporter, As you know, social studies teachers, librarians, and local school boards are on the frontlines of the right-wing’s vicious attack on educational freedom. Teachers are being threatened, attacked, and fired. Members of school boards have been either voted out of office or forced to resign. Librarians are under intense pressure to get…
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Another great program in this series. Margaret and Van From: Feinberg Series <feinberg@history.umass.edu>Date: Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 1:16 PMSubject: (Please Forward) U.S. Empire in Asia and the Pacific (Tues, 11/1)To: Jessica Johnson <johnson@history.umass.edu>, History Department <communications@history.umass.edu> Join the Feinberg Series for a panel conversation on repression, resistance and the history of U.S. imperialism in Asia…
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Dear H-PAD supporter, Guides.votes has many excellent, nonpartisan voter guides for races in all parts of the country. If students on your campus are trying to get information so they can decide how to cast their votes, this is a great resource! We also know that many on campuses have participated in voter registration campaigns. But…
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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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U.S.-China Update Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy Issue #35 ~ October, 2022 ~ Subscribe at:
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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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Oops! Monday is the 19th not the 17th. Sorry about that. Margaret On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 12:13 PM Margaret Power via H-PAD <h-pad@lists.historiansforpeace.org> wrote: Dear H-PAD Members, We are pleased to share with you an annoucement of a series of important events organized by the Dept. of History at U Mass Amherst and…
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Dear H-PAD Members, We are pleased to share with you an annoucement of a series of important events organized by the Dept. of History at U Mass Amherst and co-sponsored by H-PAD. The not-to-be-missed kick-off event features Dr.Rogoberta Menchú Tum speaking on U.S. Policy in the Global South. Other speakers include Vincent Bevins and Amy…
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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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Dear H-PAD members and friends, We have had a busy spring and summer, as historians and activists: In collaboration with the African American Policy Forum and the AAUP, we helped organize a campaign that encouraged over 50 Faculty Senates to pass resolutions denouncing the educational gag orders passed by state legislatures. In 2022 alone 137 bills to…