Announcements
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Historians Against Slavery stands with those protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Eleanor Bumpers, and Alberta Spruill, along with the many other Black and Brown victims of police and vigilante violence in the United States, past and present. We are an organization that mobilizes historical literacy to fight contemporary slavery as…
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H-PAD Members: H-PAD Newsletter #3 on responding to the crisis is attached. Newsletter-3-Current-Crisis-6.14..20.pdf
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Richmond's Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood” By Kevin M. Levin, The Atlantic, posted June 11 “Real Estate Developers used the statues on Monument Avenue to draw white buyers to a neighborhood where houses could not be sold 'to any person of African descent.'” The author…
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In the context of the ongoing events in the US, important pieces about the connection of militarization of police forces and the Israeli occupation in Palestine: Minnesota cops ‘trained by Israeli forces in restraint techniques’ WITH WHOM ARE MANY U.S. POLICE DEPARTMENTS TRAINING? WITH A CHRONIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR – ISRAEL North…
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H-PAD members and friends, Duke University Press has made all of issue 137 of the Radical History Review “Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination” freely available for a few months. Duke has updated a previously-published Police Violence Syllabus . It features the Policing issue as well as two articles from earlier issues. Also see the…
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Statement of the Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) on the Current Struggle H-PAD condemns the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. We stand with many, many others to demand justice for George Floyd, his family, and his community. We stand with many others to demand that the historic and structural…
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Dear H-PAD members and friends, It has been a tumultuous but fruitful year since our May 28, 2019 National Strategy Meeting of Historians, and we want to catch up with you. Since 2017, we have focused on the profound danger posed by the Trump Administration, converting what was Historians Against the War to Historians…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Trump’s Little Big Horn: In the War on Coronavirus, We needed an Eisenhower; We Got Custer” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted May 24 Uses the Allies’ strategy in building toward D-Day to critique Trump’s lack of a plan regarding Covid-19. The author teaches history at the University…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “From Black Death to Fatal Flu, Past Pandemics Show Why People on the Margins Suffer Most” By Lizzie May, Science, posted May 14 This article, in a prestigious science journal, summarizes a great amount of historical data on the differential impact of infectious diseases. “Nurses on the Front Lines:…
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Dear Members and Supporters of H-PAD, Please consider signing the statement below that James Green who teaches Latin American history at Brown University is circulating as part of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil. To do so, send your name and affiliation to James_Green@brown.edu. Thanks, Marc Becker Professor of History Truman State University No…