June 2017
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Killing Bill O’Reilly:The Disgraced Broadcaster’s Distortions of History” By Matthew Stevenson, Harpers, July issue A dissection of the right-wing commentator’s new book on World War II in the Pacific. The author note that O’Reilly is currently the nation’s most widely read historian. “A Presumption of Guilt” By Bryan…
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“The Vietnam War, 1954-1975,” is now available on the “United States Foreign Policy: History & Resource Guide,” a website sponsored by Historians for Peace and Democracy and Peace History Society. The essay examines, step-by-step, the series of imperious actions and public deceptions entailed in the 21-year effort to carve out a separate state in southern…
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A note: The newly constituted HAW Steering Committee has enthusiastically chosen Margaret Power and Van Gosse as the new co-chairs of Historians Against the War. (Marc Becker and I, who have been co-chairs for the past nine years, nominated them.) Van (who teaches at Franklin & Marshall College) was a principal founder of HAW in 2003,…