[H-PAD] H-PAD Notesw 12/19/19: AHA activities; links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*For anyone planning to attend the AHA annual meeting: *The *Radical
History Review *and H-PAD are sponsoring eleven sessions in Concourse room
B of the New York Hilton, running from Friday afternoon Jan. 3 through
Sunday afternoon Jan. 5. Click here
<https://www.historiansforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HPAD-RHRsessions.pdf>
for a flyer listing the topics and times or here
<https://www.historiansforpeace.org/aha2020/sessions/> for a fuller version
including the names of participants. In addition, the Immigration and
Palestine working groups of H-PAD have each gathered enough signatures to
place their respective resolutions on the agenda for the AHA business
meeting at 5:15 on Sunday the 5th; click here
<https://www.historiansforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Resolutions.pdf>
for the wording of both resolutions.



*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"What's Russian for 'I Told You So'? How American Exceptionalism
Suppressed the Russian Experience in Afghanistan"
<https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2019/12/18/whats-russian-for-i-told-you-so-how-american-exceptionalism-suppressed-the-soviet-experience-in-afghanistan>*
By *Tony Varon, **Responsible Statecraft, *posted December 18
*How US decision makers ignored the advice of Russian military leaders not
to repeat the Soviet Union's disastrous decision not to undertake a land
war in Afghanistan. The uthor is a former senior editor at *Time *magazine.*

*"What 'The New York Times' Got Wrong on Bolivia"*
<https://www.thenation.com/article/bolivia-times-morales-coup>
By *Greg Grandin,* *The Nation, *posted December 18
*The author teaches history at New York University. After he drafted this
article, it was signed by 300 0ther scholars, whose names can be found on a
link at the end of the on-line article.*

*"Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal
Islamists: It Was 'Progress' All the Way Then, Too"
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176642>*
By *Danny Sjursen, *TomDispatch.com, posted December 17
*In this article a retired US Army major compares the Afghanistan War, in
which he served, with the Army's long campaign to establish control of the
southern Philippines for more than a decade at the start of the 20th
century.*

*"Israeli Blockade of Gaza Causing Contaminated Water, 25% of Illnesses and
25% of Infant Deaths"*
<https://www.juancole.com/2019/12/blockade-contaminated-illnesses.html>
By *Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted December 17
*The author teaches history at the University of Michigan.*

*"The Infinity War"
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/13/infinity-war/?arc404=true&ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_12_17_2019_13_10)&fbclid=IwAR0nKV-BrOXQNYnUBP33HODVLJC>*
By *Samuel Moyn and Stephen Wertheim, **Washington Post, *posted December 13
*Analyzes why, "according to the Congressional Research Service, more than
80 percent of all the country's adventures abroad since 1946 came after
1989 [i.e., after the end of the Cold War in]."*

*"Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/opinion/sunday/andrew-johnson-donald-trump.html>
By *Manisha Sinha, **New York Times, *posted November 29
*Draws parallels between Trump and Andrew Johnson. The author teaches
history at the University of Connecticut and is the author of *The Slave's
Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale U. Press, 2016).

*Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg and an anonymous reader for suggesting articles
included in the above list. Suggestions can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*

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