Statements

Mobilize to Prevent Trump and Allies from Stealing the Election (October 27, 2020)

Organize a Virtual Forum on Issues Related to the Election! (September 29, 2020)

Statement of the Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) on the Current Struggle (June 2, 2020)

H-PAD Steering Committee statement on the coup in Bolivia (November 17, 2019)

This is a series of one-page, printable handouts that summarize important historical events, movements, crises, and more that form the backdrop for our current political situation.

Ellen Schrecker, “McCarthyism, 1947-1960“
Jeremy Kuzmarov, “The U.S. War on Drugs“
Linda Gordon, “The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s“
Robert Oppenheim, “North Korea and Nuclear Weapons“
Geoff Eley, “Is Trump a Fascist?“
Felice Batlan, “Building a Regime of Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1840-1945“
Margaret Power, “Puerto Rico: A U.S. Colony in the Caribbean“
Van Gosse, “Why The United States Is Not A True Democracy, Part One“
Kevin A. Young, “Our Debt to Central American Refugees” also available as a text version with hyperlinks
Van Gosse, “Why the United States Is Not a True Democracy, Part Two”