April 2020
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H-PAD encourages all who support this petition to sign it and share it. Margaret Power and Van Gosse, Co-Chairs Dear Friends, Please consider signing the COVID-19 Global Solidarity Manifesto (below and https://forms.gle/h8R5LYNWXyivwjBn9). A group of around 50 people from more than 12 countries drafted the Manifesto in recent weeks. We will launch the Manifesto Friday, May 1, and…
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My Dear Friends: I’m writing because I’m concerned with the devastating impact of COVID 19 on institutions of higher education, as I’m sure you are too. Events are moving quickly, and currently there are several institution-based, profession-based, union-based, and student-based efforts to address the crisis. But there has not yet been a comprehensive united call for…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Minorities, Native Peoples, the Poor, and Infectious Diseases from Columbus to Caronavirus” By Walter G. Moss, History News Network, posted April 26 The author is an emeritus professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. “History Should Have Taught Us Not to Believe the Quinine Drug Hype” By Andrew Goss,…
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Dear Members and Supporters of H-PAD, We hope that you are doing as well as possible in these exceedingly difficult times. We hope you will take a moment to read, sign, and share the petition below from H-PAD's Immigrant Rights Working Group. DACA Petition Among the many hardships wrought by the current pandemic, the Covid-19 outbreak has…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Dr. Fauci and My Mom" By Molly Ladd-Taylor, Nursing Clio, posted April 14 A short article – a historian's personal story from the 1980s. The author teaches history at York University in Toronto. "The Other Pandemic" By Alan M. Kraut, History News Network, posted April 12 On the scapegoating…
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Current Emergency: Resources #1 Given a multi-faceted crisis with deep roots in American public policy, we have compiled some suggested articles and simple initiatives –which might be particularly helpful for students and/or community groups. Mismanagement of the Virus: “The US Was Beset by Denial and Dysfunction as the Coronavirus Raged” Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true Military spending…
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Dear friend, We wanted to let our supporters know about our progress in creating a formal membership. We now have more than one hundred members and we would welcome more. Last Friday, we held two national conference calls in which dozens of people participated. We are shortly sending out for a review a proposal to form…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Malignant Contagion: Trumpism's Mindlessness on Coronavirus and Albert Camus' 'The Plague'" By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted April 6 Likens the Trump administration's responses to the Covid-19 pandemic to the irresponsibility of city officials in Camus' classic novel. The author teaches Middle Eastern history at the University of…
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EMERGENCY MESSAGE ON GAZA CRISIS COVID-19 has entered the Gaza Strip, endangering thousands of Palestinians. Gaza is densely populated, making physical distancing difficult. Decades of Israeli siege have devastated the infrastructure and crippled the medical system. It is urgent that medical supplies and other forms of relief be delivered to the residents of Gaza.…
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Note: The H-PAD sponsored website U.S. Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide has added a lengthy and well-illustrated essay on The Post-Cold War Era, 1989-2001 by Brian D'Haeseleer, Jeremy Kuzmarov, and Roger Peace, covering the Panama invasion of 1989 and the Persian Gulf War of 1991, among other topics.. Links to Recent Articles of Interest…