Announcements
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Patton and Westy Meet in a Bar” By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted September 10 A fanciful alcohol-fueled conversation between long-dead generals George Patton and William Westmoreland and a fictitious general who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author is a retired Army colonel and a professor emeritus of…
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Friends of H-PAD, As you may remember, in the spring we launched the Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights. It has really taken off! We now have several hundred faculty members around the country, and strong partnerships with the leading national organizations that students' electoral empowerment. One of those groups, the SLSV Coalition, sent out the…
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The crisis deepens, the struggle continues Newsletter attached. Historians for Peace and Democracy Andor Skotnes Professor of History H-PAD-Newsletter-5-send.pdf
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The higher education system in the United States is in crisis. Neoliberalism, the current phase of capitalism, has led to privatization, the decrease and/or cutting of state funds, with the resulting skyrocketing costs of education and student debt. The pandemic has both exposed and intensified the weaknesses of the public as well as the private…
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On June 18, the provost at Truman State University sent a message to department chairs ordering that “Faculty are expected to physically be on campus this fall for the majority of their teaching, advising, research, service, office hours, etc.” That mandate caused an outcry among the faculty who rightfully believed that the administration was putting…
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A Congressional Update follows the list of articles. Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was Unnecessary” By Gar Alperovitz and Martin Sherwin, CommonDreams.org, posted August 6 (from the Los Angeles Times) Argues that the imminent entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan was sufficient to…
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On August 15th, Scholars for Social Justice will host a webinar featuring several speakers. This webinar will take place via zoom at 1-2:30 pm EST. More information will be coming soon! The registration link can be found below. Speakers include: – Davarian Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower (forthcoming), Trinity College – Destin Jenkins, author…
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As the California Department of Education (CDE) works to finalize the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum it is facing efforts to exclude Arab American studies from the final Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, and it seems that Palestine and Palestinians are at the core of the issue. Please consider supporting this effort to keep Arab American studies…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “A Brief History of Dangerous Others” By Richard Kreitner and Rick Perlstein, NYR [New York Review of Books' Daily, posted July 27 On the long history of “outside agitators” in the US, from slavery days to today's Black Lives Matter protests. Richard Kreitner writes for The Nation and has…