September 2020
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Organize a Virtual Forum on Issues Related to the Election! Colleagues, Over the next five weeks, Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) is encouraging members and supporters around the country to organize virtual talks or panels – delivered via Zoom or Skype—on key issues in this election regarding both domestic and foreign policy. We…
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Hello, H-PAD started this project, which is growing rapidly. Any faculty interested in supporting student voting are welcome! Webinar: Science is Rising: Turning out the STEM Vote in 2020Melissa Varga and Raena Garcia of the Union of Concerned Scientists to lead a webinar on how to increase the STEM student vote leading up to the 2020…
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H-PAD Members and Supporters, Attached is Historians for Peace and Democracy Newsletter #6. In it we call all H-PADers to action in the final eight weeks before the election. We feel that widespread mobilizations of all sorts are needed, and these mobilizations can only emerge if activists and radical intellectuals become self activated—if we look…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Patton and Westy Meet in a Bar” By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted September 10 A fanciful alcohol-fueled conversation between long-dead generals George Patton and William Westmoreland and a fictitious general who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author is a retired Army colonel and a professor emeritus of…
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Friends of H-PAD, As you may remember, in the spring we launched the Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights. It has really taken off! We now have several hundred faculty members around the country, and strong partnerships with the leading national organizations that students' electoral empowerment. One of those groups, the SLSV Coalition, sent out the…