February 2021
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H-PAD Friends and Supporters, You have probably received a fair amount of information about our new Virtual Speakers Program, and more is available on the H-PAD website at https://historiansforpeace.org/speakers/ We have, however, received requests for a concise list of the speakers that can be quickly browsed. Here it is. H-PAD Virtual Speakers-Concise List…
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Supporters of Historians for Peace and Justice, H-PAD Newsletter #7 announcing the new Virtual Speakers Program is attached. Please check it out! Andor for the H-PAD Executive Committee H-PAD-Newsletter-7.pdf
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Can Historians Be Traumatized by History” By James Robins, The New Republic, posted February 16 On the psychological difficulties of historians who delve into past atrocities. The author is a journalist and historian who has written on the Armenian genocide. “Will the Nuclear Powers Ever Be Willing to Forgo…
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Organize a Virtual Forum on Issues Related to the Election! 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 have created a speakers list…
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H-PAD Alert: October 27, 2020 Mobilize to Prevent Trump and Allies from Stealing the Election While the possibility of Trump winning re-election is receding, he and his rightwing, racist allies continue to make veiled—and not-so-veiled threats to disrupt and steal the election. While time is short, forces across the country are mobilizing to prevent this…
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Barbara Winslow, bwpurplewins@gmail.com, is available to speak on the historic struggle for the vote. Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College. She “is a historian of women’s activism as well as the founder and director emerita of the Shirley Chisholm Project. She is the author of Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change (2013) and a coeditor of Clio…
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Larry Wittner, larrywittner@gmail.com, is available to speak on nuclear weapons and war. Professor Emeritus, SUNY Albany. He “ is the author of nine books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the writer of about 400 published articles and book reviews. His most ambitious scholarly project thus far has been his Struggle Against the Bomb…
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Jon Wiener, wiener@uci.edu – major research interests, recent American history, Cold War culture. Professor Emertitus, University of California Irvine. “Jon Wiener . . . sued the FBI for their files on John Lennon . . . That story is told in his book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. . . . He’s…
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Barbara Weinstein, barbara.weinstein@nyu.edu, is available to speak on Trump’s impact on Latin American politics. Professor of History, New York University. She is “Silver Professor of History and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working…
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Liz Theoharis, liz.theoharis@gmail.com, is available to speak on issues of democracy, poverty, racism, ecological devastation, militarism, and Christian nationalism. She is Director of the Kairos Center at Union Theological Seminary. Rev. Theorharis is “Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II that organized the…