H-PAD Notes
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View in browser Links to Recent Articles of Interest “When Does Power Concede? Thwarting MAGA Will Take More than Protest and Symbolic Resistance” By Van Gosse, The Nation, posted November 19 On the mixed history of “states’ rights” in the US, evoking the legacy of northern resistance to fugitive slave laws before the Civil War…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Aurora and Springfield Aren’t the First Cities to Become Flash Points in US Immigration Debate – Here’s What Happened in Other Places Used as Political Soapboxes” By Miranda Cady Hallett, The Conversation, posted October 21 Tells the story of two communities – Siler City NC and Lewiston ME – where…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest: “How the Israeli Settlers Movement Shaped Modern Israel” By Arie Perliger, Informed Comment, posted September 19 “Since the late 1970s, the future of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been the country’s most divisive debate. Yet the once-fringe settler movement has arguably become the most influential actor in Israeli politics.”…
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Links to recent articles of interest: “How Donald Trump Undermined the Health and Safety of American Workers” By Lawrence S. Wittner, Common Dreams, posted August 16 Catalogues the ways in which Trump administration policies from 2017 to 2021, both before and after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, increased workers’ vulnerability to a wide range of injuries and…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The Regional Origins of America’s First Comprehensive Immigration Law” By Devin E. Naar, Made by History – Time, posted July 6 On the background of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 and its author, Rep. Albert Johnson (R-Wash). “Even as the primary targets of immigration restrictionism…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “UN Commission of Inquiry: Israel Guilty of Crimes against Humanity, Hamas Guilty of War Crimes” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment, posted June 13 A detailed summary of the June 12 UN investigatory report that detailed war crimes committed by Hamas and allied groups on October 7 and by the Israeli military in…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “In Harvard Yard” By Walter Johnson, New York Review of Books, posted May 8 A complex account of the dynamics of the pro-Palestinian encampment that began April 24 at Harvard University and the administration’s response to it. The author teaches African and African American Studies at Harvard. “Why I’m Not Calling the Police…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Israeli Massacres Continue in Gaza as Returnees to North Are Targeted and Refugee Camp Is Bombed” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment, posted April 15 A reminder of the ongoing collective punishment in Gaza amid media focus on Israel-Iran tensions. The author teaches Middle East history at the University of…
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Note: Carolyn “Rusti” Eisenberg, author of one of the articles in the following list and a longtime Steering Committee member of H-PAD and its predecessor, Historians Against the War, has been announced as a winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians. The award is for her book Fire…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Top 3 Things Biden Could Do Instead of Intensively Bombing Iraq and Syria” By Juan Cole, Informed Comment, posted February 3 A short piece arguing the futility of US air strikes in Iraq and Syria and advocating the withdrawal of US troops from both countries and a cessation to…