[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 4/2/20: Website addition; Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Note: The H-PAD sponsored website U.S. Foreign Policy History & Resource
Guide has added a lengthy and well-illustrated essay on The Post-Cold War
Era, 1989-2001 <http://peacehistory-usfp.org/post-cold-war-era> by Brian
D'Haeseleer, Jeremy Kuzmarov, and Roger Peace, covering the Panama invasion
of 1989 and the Persian Gulf War of 1991, among other topics..*

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"How America' s Newspapers Covered Up a Pandemic"*
<https://newrepublic.com/article/157094/americas-newspapers-covered-pandemic>
By* Walter Shapiro, **New Republic, *posted March 31
*On how the government and major newspapers played down the existence of
raging 2018 flu epidemic in the last months of World War I, even as 195,000
Americans fell victim to the flu in October 1918 along. *


*"Pandemics and the Shape of Human History"
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/pandemics-and-the-shape-of-human-history>*
*By Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, posted March 30 (April 6 issue)*
*"Just as there are many ways for microbes to infect a body, there are many
ways for epidemics to affect the body politic." The examples go back to
Classic times.*

*"Trump Bashed Immigrants, But Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors Are Immigrants, on
Pandemic Front Lines"
<https://www.juancole.com/2020/03/immigrants-foreign-pandemic.html>*
By *Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted March 30
*The author teaches history at the University of Michigan.*

*"Fighting  Virus with the Wrong Tools"*
<https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/489733-fighting-a-virus-with-the-wrong-tools>
*By Catherine Lutz and Neta C. Crawford, **The Hill, *posted March 28
*On the extreme disproportion between spending on the military and on the
safety and health of the population. The authors are co-directors of the
Cost of War Project at Brown University.*

*"No Mercy Even in a Pandemic: Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish
Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet"*
<https://www.juancole.com/2020/03/occupation-authorities-palestinian.html>
By* Juan Cole,* Informed Comment blog, posted March 28
*Based on a report by the Israeli peace organization Btselem. The author
teaches history at the University of Michigan.*

*"How Some Cities 'Flattened the Curve' During the 1918 Flu Epidemic"*
<https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus>
By* Nina Strochlic and Riley D. Champine, **National Geographic, *posted
March 27
*"Social distancing isn't a new idea - it saved thousands of American lives
during the last great pandemic. Here's how it worked."*

*"Illness & Crisis, from Medieval Plague Tracts to Covid-19"*
<https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/03/25/illness-and-crisis-from-medieval-plague-tracts-to-covid-19>
By *Spencer Strub, **NYR [New York Review of Books[ Daily, *posted March 25
*The author is a medievalist who teaches in the Harvard College Writing
Program.*

*"Analyzing the Patterns in Trump's Falsehoods about Coronavirus"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-factcheck.html>
By *Linda Qiu, **New York Times, *posted March 27
*A valuable reminder.The author is a fact check reporter for the *New York
Times,* which she joined in 2017 after working for PolitiFact.*

*"Charles Koch Network Pushed $1 Billion Cut to CDC, Now Attacks
Shelter-in-Place Policies for Harming Business"*
<https://theintercept.com/2020/03/26/americans-for-prosperity-cdc-coronavirus>
By *Lee Fang, **The Intercept, *posted March 27
*The author is an investigative journalist who was the first to expose the
billionaire Koch brothers' role in financing the Tea Party movement.*

*"Prisons and Public Health: Governor Cuomo Must Let Out Thousands or Many
Will Die"*
<https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-prisons-and-public-health-20200327-fvrf4uxrr5bsze5xbjegfbhdmi-story.html>
By* Susan Reverby, **New York Daily News, *posted March 27
*The author is a historian of women, medicine, and nursing and a professor
emerita at Wellesley College.*

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