Announcements
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PLEASE SHARE! Save the date! Defusing the US-North Korea Conflict: Building on the Olympic Truce Christine Ahn International Coordinator Women Cross the DMZ Saturday, February 10, 2018 7 PM First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany 405 Washington Ave. Light Refreshments Christine Ahn organized the 2015 Women’s March across the Korean DMZ, including Nobel Peace Laureates,…
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Christian G. Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Carolyn Eisenberg is a professor of history at Hofstra University. They were interviewed by the History News Network‘s Rick Shenkman on January 6, 2018 at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association following the panel, “A Fateful Misunderstanding: A Discussion…
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Margaret Power is a Professor of History at Illinois Tech and the author of Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973. She was interviewed by the History News Network‘s Rick Shenkman on January 6, 2018 at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association after appearing on a roundtable organized by…
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Colleagues, Disrupted by weather-related transportation problems, H-PAD nonetheless was a presence at the American Historical Association Meeting last weekend. Below are two brief reports on our activities at the conference, plus two links to History News Network interviews with three H-PAD colleagues. (Jim O’Brien earlier sent these links out, but we are resending them in…
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Note: The History News Network has posted two interviews from the recent AHA convention that are especially relevant to Historians for Peace and Democracy. One is with co-chair Margaret Power about H-PAD and the urgency of the Korean crisis. The other is with Steering Committee member Rusti Eisenberg and Chris Appy on shortcomings of the…
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[If you are at the AHA this weekend, please join us tomorrow; if you know someone who is there, please pass this on to her or him.] Roundtable: A Fateful Misunderstanding: A Discussion of the Film Documentary “The Vietnam War” by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The PBS documentary on the Vietnam War has already…
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Historians for Peace and Democracy Dear H-PAD supporter, I am writing for the steering committee to update you on upcoming H-PAD actions. First and foremost are our activities at the upcoming American Historical Association Conference in Washington, DC, January 5 and 6—a flyer on our AHA activities is attached. For those of you who will…
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Marv Gettleman (1933-2017) was one of the founders and a strong stalwart of H-Pad’s predecessor organization Historians Against the War (see our tribute to him). Marv was also on the editorial board of Science and Society, and they printed the following remembrance in the October 2017 issue of their journal: MARVIN E. GETTLEMAN, 1933–2017 We…
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Dear H-PAD members, In preparation for the AHA conference, some of us on the Steering Committee are putting together a summary of recent H-PAD activities. If you’ve organized an event and haven’t told us about it, please let me know so we can include it with these other recent events. Thanks, Kevin…
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For those attending the AHA convention in Washington, DC next month, here are two sessions that may be of particular interest. Both are on Saturday morning, January 6 at the main convention hotel, the Marriott Wardman Park. 8:30-10:00: Roundtable: "A Fateful Misunderstanding: A Discussion of the Film Documentary The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn…