May 2020

  • Dear H-PAD members and friends,   It has been a tumultuous but fruitful year since our May 28, 2019 National Strategy Meeting of Historians, and we want to catch up with you.   Since 2017, we have focused on the profound danger posed by the Trump Administration, converting what was Historians Against the War to Historians…

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  • Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Trump’s Little Big Horn: In the War on Coronavirus, We needed an Eisenhower; We Got Custer” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted May 24 Uses the Allies’ strategy in building toward D-Day to critique Trump’s lack of a plan regarding Covid-19. The author teaches history at the University…

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  • Links to Recent Articles of Interest “From Black Death to Fatal Flu, Past Pandemics Show Why People on the Margins Suffer Most” By Lizzie May, Science, posted May 14 This article, in a prestigious science journal, summarizes a great amount of historical data on the differential impact of infectious diseases. “Nurses on the Front Lines:…

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  • Dear Members and Supporters of H-PAD, Please consider signing the statement below that James Green who teaches Latin American history at Brown University is circulating as part of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil. To do so, send your name and affiliation to James_Green@brown.edu. Thanks, Marc Becker Professor of History Truman State University No…

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  • Note: Today is the 50th anniversary of the killing of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard. A commemoration that would otherwise have been held on the Kent State campus has been changed to a virtual observance that should be available for at least the next week at www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50. Thanks to…

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