Historians for Peace
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Judgment Day for the National Security State: The Coronavirus and the Real Threats to American Safety and Freedom" By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted March 26 The author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "The…
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Judith and Lewis Leavitt authored this in The Progressive, reminding us of how pandemics stimulate demonizing along lines of race, ethnicity, and gender. https://progressive.org/op-eds/dont-let-covid-19-unleash-bias-leavitt-200316/
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Gene Genovese and Our Criminally Reckless Wars" By Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, posted March 3 On one of many phases of the late controversial historian's career. "His lessons from Vietnam could teach us a lot about the havoc we've wreaked in the Middle East." The author is…
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Dear friends, Since our founding in 2003, Historians Against the War/Historians for Peace & Democracy has operated as a loose network. Anyone who agreed with our mission was considered a supporter or member. This open-door policy allowed us to reach out and incorporate thousands of people. 2019 was a year of sustained activism by…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "The Conversation about American Torture Is 400 Years Old" By William Fitzhugh Brundage, Aeon, posted February 20 "For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism." The author teaches history at the University of North Carolina and his latest book…
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Congressional Update By Carolyn "Rusti" Eisenberg and Prasannan Parthasarathi, H-PAD Legislative Coordinators Important Vote in Senate This Week The US Senate will be voting, perhaps as early as today, on Senate resolution S.J. 68, Tim Kaine's War Power Resolution, which directs the President to terminate the use of U.S. Armed Forces for hostilities against Iran…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Grading the Pentagon's Joint Vision 2020 — 20 Years Later" By Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, posted January 30 "Naive, short-sighted, and self-indulgent, this blueprint turned out to be a joke, one the military played on itself." The author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations…
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This Thursday the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on two excellent pieces of legislation: Barbara Lee’s resolution HR 2456 to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, which has been used by the last three administration’s to justify military action in several countries. For co-sponsors: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2456/cosponsors?q=%7B%22cosponsor-state%22%3A%22New+York%22%7D Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif) resolution HR 5543…
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Report on the RHR/H-PAD Affiliate Sessions at the 2020 AHA Annual Meeting As an experiment, at the 2020 American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, January 3-6 in New York, Radical History Review (RHR) used its AHA affiliate status, and, with the support of Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD), organized eleven sessions. Other AHA affiliated…
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Day of Action January 25: No War with Iran. Across the country a host of national peace and social justice groups are staging anti-war events in their area. To find an event near you or your campus, check https://www.codepink.org/01252020 Congressional Update: the House of Representatives is in recess this week and, unless involved in impeachment proceedings,…