Announcements
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work” By Kevin A. Young, Yes! magazine, posted July 8 Uses examples from abolitionism, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam antiwar movement. The author teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “The Story Behind the Lee Statue in Richmond, Virginia” By
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Historians for Peace and Justice, Newsletter #4 H-PAD Members and Supporter, H-PAD Occasional Newsletter #4–which focuses on resources and reports for H-PAD related activities during the current crisis—is attached. Please send feedback on Newsletter #4, and suggestions for our next newsletter to Andor Skotnes, skotna@sage.edu, or Kevin Young, kayoung@umass.edu. And check out the
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down” By Nick Mirzoeff, Hyperallergic, posted June 30 On the historical background of the Roosevelt statue, with its racial hierarchy, at the American Museum of Natural History. The author is a scholar of visual culture who teaches in the Department
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Dear friends, We are writing about H-PAD's new project, the Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights, a nonpartisan national effort to enlist faculty at all levels as public allies to students seeking to vote. Please read our “Open Letter to College and University Faculty” explaining why this network is urgently needed to challenge voter suppression amid the new
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Juneteenth: Activists Across US Inherit a Historic Battle for Racial Justice” By Kenya Evelyn, The Guardian, posted June 19 A history of the observance of Juneteenth, the holiday that, according to President Trump, “nobody had ever heard about.” “The Cops Can Be Defeated – But Not by Taking Obama's
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H-PAD strongly supports the Poor People's Campaign, and urges its supporters to participate in the June 20 We Rise Together Assembly and Moral March on Washington! Van Gosse and Margaret Power, Co-Chairs
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Professor Samer Alatout of the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison has been under attack from the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC), a notorious organization that targets faculty members due to their positions on Palestine/Israel. This May, DHFC included Professor Alatout on its list of “The Top Ten
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H-PAD endorses this urgently-needed webinar on the connections between racialized policing and universities! Van Gosse and Margaret Power, Co-Chairs
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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