H-PAD Notes
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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…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “History Tells Us How the Israel-Hamas War Will End” By Ian S. Lustick, Time, posted January 10 “An American order to stop is not what Israeli leaders fear, it is what they expect, and it is what the country always needs. And history shows it will come – eventually.”…
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Two Notes on Webinars: On Thursday, November 30 (7-8pm Eastern time), H-PAD and Massachusetts Peace Action will present a webinar on “Why There Will Be No Winners in the Israel-Gaza War.” The speaker is Andrew Bacevich, a retired US Army colonel and a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University. Click here…
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The Steering Committee of Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) has compiled some of the most important statements, interviews, and articles on Palestine and Israel that have appeared since October 7. The following is a sampling of some of the best English-language analysis from progressive and anti-imperialist voices. We know that no amount of analysis…
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Note: Historians for Peace and Democracy is gathering signatures for a proposed resolution on the “right to learn” for the January 4-7 AHA meeting in San Francisco. In order for it to be considered by the business meeting, 227 current AHA members must sign by October 1. Click here for the wording of the proposal…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Ecuador Heads to Presidential Runoff with Opposing Visions on the Ballot” By Marc Becker, Nacla, posted August 21 A detailed analysis of the upcoming Ecuadoran election, with background on the social dynamics of the country's recent history. The author teaches Latin American history at Truman State University in Missouri,…
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LInks to Recent Articles of Interest “American Carnage” By Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books, August 17 issue A review essay on Jeffrey Toobin's new book Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism (Simon and Schuster, 2023), which links right-wing anti-government violence to Republican politics going back to the Reagan administration. The…
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Note: H-PAD announces an extensively updated version of its Culture Wars Archive, coordinated by Molly Nolan. Organized topically, It consists of around two hundred articles and statements from the past few years' of right-wing attacks on education – and resistance to the attacks. Another Note: A June 26 webinar on “Shifting Power Dynamics: Ukraine, Russia,…