H-PAD Notes
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’” By Dan Kaufman, New York Review of Books, December 4 issue Review essay on Paul Preston’s Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain (William Collins, 2024). “As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Trump’s Squeeze of Venezuela Goes Beyond the Monroe Doctrine” By Alan McPherson, Portside, posted November 4 (from The Conversation) Runs through two centuries of US policy in Latin America, concluding that the current military buildup aimed at Venezuela “is in key respects both unprecedented and shocking. It could also
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Benjamin Netanyahu’s Abuse of History for Politics” By Yoram Meital, Informed Comment, posted September 30 Cites multiple inaccuracies in a claim by Netanyahu that Arab conquests of Biblical lands in the seventh century triggered a centuries-long pattern of Muslims repressing Jews in the region. “Netanyahu’s statements, past and present, are not slips of
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Genocide Scholars: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, and We Should Know” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment, posted September 6 On the August 31 adoption of a resolution in which the International Association of Genocide Scholars (by an 86% majority of those voting) found that Israeli actions in Gaza fit the definition
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima?” By Eric Ross, TomDispatch, posted August 12 On the meanings attached to the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, both in the immediate aftermath and in the decades since. The author is a peace activist and a PhD candidate in history at
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It” By Omer Bartov, New York Times, posted July 15 A lengthy essay by a well-known student of genocide, applying the term to Israeli actions in Gaza and decrying the reluctance of most scholars of the Holocaust to see
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest: “Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator” By Timothy W. Ryback, The Atlantic, posted June 12 Tells the story of how, at the outset of Nazi rule in Germany, Hitler maneuvered to crush the partial autonomy of the nation’s component states, especially opposition-controlled Bavaria.
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest: “Poof! It’s Gone: Disappearing the America We Once Knew” By Karen Greenberg, TomDispatch, posted May 13 Quoting Milan Kundera’s novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”), this article delineates the Trump administration’s wholesale erasure of public
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Tax Season and the Making of the American Fiscal State” By Ajay K. Mehrota and John Fabian Witt, Made by History – Time, posted April 16 A historical primer on how and why the US came to replace protective tariffs with a graduated income tax, and how Trump administration actions “are combining
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Trump, Antisemitism & Academia” By Christopher R. Browning, New York Review of Books, April 10 issue “[Trump’s] campaign against campus antisemitism is simply a hypocritical pretext for his assault on American higher education.” The author is a professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina and wrote