Announcements
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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…
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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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Dear colleagues and friends, The search for truth has been front and center in Congress of late. Hearings have been held probing conspiratorial plots to overturn the 2020 election results and to foment an insurrection on January 6, 2021. Truth-telling in matters of foreign policy is rarer but not absent. In 2004, one year after…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest Biden's Unkind, Rewind Approach to the Middle East” By Andrew J. Bacevich, The Nation, posted July 27 On President' Biden's trip to the Middle East, most notably Saudi Arabia and Israel. The “not-so-subtle purpose” was “to signal that Biden has no intention of tampering with the fundamentals actually defining…
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Finally, there is an effort by Congressional Representatives to call for diplomacy in resolving the Ukraine crisis. The Chair of the Progressive Caucus Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is circulating a letter to her colleagues, addressed to President Biden. While endorsing the Administration’s decision to support the government of Ukraine, it emphasizes that this contribution “also creates…
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Approaching the 50th Anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreement (January 1973) –signifying the end of the US War in Vietnam, the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee is offering to partner with academic institutions to create individual programs or a full-conference on the “Power of Protest”–the role of peace activism during that period. For more details, see the attached.…
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Late this afternoon, the Democratic controlled House of Representatives passed a $850 National Defense Authorization Act. This was $37 billion more than requested by the White House. The final vote was 329-101. Democrats in the House voted in favor of this legislation by a margin of 180-39, signifying an increased willingness by even liberal members of…
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Legislative Alert: Oppose $ 850 billion in 2023 Military Spending Overblown “defense” spending is nothing new, so it’s easy not to notice when outrageous expenditures spiral even higher. President Biden asked Congress to allocate $813 billion for the military in FY 2023. Then the House Armed Services Committee, controlled by Democrats, chose to add another…