[H-PAD] H-PAD 11/12/18: Kent State commemoration; links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Note: *The Kent State University School of Peace and Conflict Studies and
the Peace History Society are sponsoring a conference next October
24-26 on *"Commemorating
Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace."
<https://www.kent.edu/spcs/conference-commemorating-violent-conflicts-and-building-sustainable-peace>
*The *Call for Papers
<https://www.kent.edu/sites/default/files/file/Call%20for%20Papers%20Kent%20State%20Conf%20Oct%202019.pdf>
*gives a deadline of February 15 for abstracts.


*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Woodrow Wilson Is Misremembered. This Has Warped Our Foreign Policy for a
Century" <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170305>*
By *Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov, *History News Network, posted November
9
*Roger Peace is the primary editor of the U.S. Foreign Policy History and
Resource Guide website; Jeremy Kuzmarov teaches history at Tulsa Community
College.*

*"Making America's Wars Great Again: The Pentagon Whitewashes a Troubling
Past" <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176493>*
By *Arnold R. Isaacs, *TomDispatch.com, posted November 8
*The author, who covered the last three years of the Vietnam War for
the *Baltimore
Sun, *critiques the Pentagon's official history of that war.*

*"Celebrate Armistice Day, Not Veterans Day"
<https://thehumanist.com/commentary/celebrate-armistice-day-not-veterans-day>*
By *David Swanson, *TheHumanist.com, posted November 7

*"'They Will Not Forgive Us': Donald Trump Ushers In the Age of 'Usable'
Nuclear Weapons" <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176491>*
By *James Carroll, *TomDispatch.com, posted November 4
*Includes background on US-Soviet arms control agreements that are now
under threat.*

*"U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now
They Don't Know How to Stop It"
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.html>*
By *Janet Reitman, **New York Times Magazine, *posted November 3

*"The Sudden Death of a Democracy: Historian Benjamin Carter Hett on the
Fall of the Weimar Republic"
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170332>*
Interview conducted by *Robin Lindley, *History News Network, posted
November 2.
*Benjamin Carter Hett teaches history at Hunter College and the CUNY
Graduate Center and is the author of a new book on Hitler's rise to power, *The
Death of Democracy.

*"The Significance of the Tet Offensive"
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/02/the-significance-of-the-tet-offensive/>*
By *Chuck O'Connell, *CounterPunch.org, posted November 2
*The author teaches sociology at the University of California Irvine.*

<https://lobelog.com/pentagon-socialism/>
*"Pentagon Socialism: Militarizing the Economy in the Name of Defense"
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176490>*
By *William D. Hartung, TomDispatch.com, *posted November 1
*The author is director of the Arms and Security Project of the Center for
International Policy.*

*"How the War in Yemen Became a Bloody Stalemate - and the Worst
Humanitarian Crisis in the World"
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/31/magazine/yemen-war-saudi-arabia.html>*
By *Robert E. Worth* (photographs by *Linsey Addario*), *New York Times
Magazine, *posted October 31

*"Donald Trump's Unconstitutional Dreams"
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/opinion/donald-trumps-birthright-citizenship.html>*
By *Eric Foner, **New York Times, *posted October 31
*On Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. The author teaches history at
Columbia University and is a leading authority on the Reconstruction era.*

*"The New Global Tinderbox: It's Not Your Mother's Cold War"
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176489>*
By Michael Klare, TomDispatch.com, posted October 30

*Steve Gosch co-edited the above list. Thanks to Mim Jackson and an
anonymous reader for suggesting articles for it. Suggestions can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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