January 2018
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The War That Never Ends (for the U.S. Military High Command)” By Danny Sjursen, TomDispatch.com, posted January 28 The reference is to the Vietnam War. The author is an active-duty military strategist and a former history instructor at West Point. “Who Is a Hero?” By Lawrence Wittner,…
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Dear friends, We take seriously H-PAD’s commitment to fighting the threats to democracy, whether attacks on immigrants or attempts to rig elections. In this context, it’s crucial that, as educators and activists we defend students’ right to vote where they go to school. That right was affirmed by the 1979 Supreme Court Symm…
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H-PAD Supporters Colleagues, The H-PAD SC has recently been involved with national groups that are organizing activities during the Winter Olympics and Paralympics to educate the US public about the current Korea crisis, and to oppose US war with North Korea. Using the tradition of the truce during the ancient Olympics as a metaphor, this…
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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…