Announcements
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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
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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