[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 7/1/20: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down"*
<https://hyperallergic.com/573782/why-its-right-that-the-theodore-roosevelt-statue-comes-down>
By* Nick Mirzoeff, **Hyperallergic, *posted June 30
*On the historical background of the Roosevelt statue, with its racial
hierarchy, at the American Museum of Natural History. The author is a
scholar of visual culture who teaches  in the Department of Media, Culture,
and Communication at New York University.*

*"Liberal Reform Threatens to Expand the Police Power - Just As It Did in
the Past"* <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/176193>
* <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/176193>*
By *Max Felker-Cantor,* History News Network, posted June 28
*Uses the experience of Los Angeles in the 1970s to warn against reforms
that maintain and even increase the power of police. The author teaches
history at Ball State University and wrote *Policing Los Angeles: Race,
Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD *(U. of North Carolina Press, 2018).*

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/27/emancipation-monument-in-washington-dc-targeted-by-protests/>*"Frederick
Douglass Delivered a Lincoln Reality Check at Emancipation Memorial
Unveiling"*
By* DeNeen L. Brown, **Washington Post, *posted June 27
*On Frederick Douglass's eloquent but nuanced tribute to Abraham Lincoln in
1876, on the 11th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The author
is a staff writer at the *Post.

*"Scholar Robin D.G. Kelley on How Today's Abolitionist Movement Can
Fundamentally Change the Country"*
<https://theintercept.com/2020/06/27/robin-dg-kelley-intercepted>
Interview by Jeremy Cahill, *The Intercept, *posted June 27
*An extensive interview on today's protests against a historical
background. Robin D.G. Kelley teaches US history at UCLA.*

*"Yes, the Freedmen's Memorial Uses Racist Imagery. But Don't Tear It Down"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/25/yes-freedmens-memorial-uses-racist-imagery-dont-tear-it-down>
By* David W. Blight, **Washington Post, *posted June 25
*The author teaches history at Yale University and won the 2019 Pulitzer
Prize in History for his *Frederick Douglass: Apostle of Freedom.

*"Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views, Even in 'Da 5 Bloods'"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/movies/da-5-bloods-vietnam.html>
By *Viet Thanh Nguyen, **New York Times, *posted June 24
*The author is a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist who has also written *Nothing
Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War *(Harvard U. Press, 2016)*

*"How 1970s U.S. Immigration Policy Put Mexicans at the Center of a System
of Mass Expulsion"* <https://time.com/5858164/voluntary-deportation-history>
*By Adam Goodman, **Time, *posted June 23
*Describes "a coercive, fast-track administrative process euphemistically
referred to as 'voluntary departure.'” *

*"American Fascism: It Has Happened Here"*
<https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here>
<https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here>
By* Sarah Churchwell, **NYR [New York Review of Books] Daily, *posted June
22
*Describes fascist and quasi-fascist movements in the US in the 1920s and
'30s, from the Klan to Father Coughlin, finding their their echoes in
Trumpism. The author's books include *Behold America: A History of America
First and the American Dream *(Bloomsbury, 2018).*

*"Witness Against the Beast"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/176071>
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/176071>
By* Christopher Tomlins, *History News Network, posted June 21
*On the evangelical Christianity of Nat Turner in contrast to that of
right-wing white evangelicals today. The author teaches law at the
University of California Berkeley and is the author of *In the Matter of
Nat Turner: A Speculative History *(Princeton U. Press, 2020).*

*"Stay Out of the Regime Change Business"*
<https://warontherocks.com/2020/06/stay-out-of-the-regime-change-business>
By *Benjamin Denison,* *War on the Rocks, *posted June 16
*A warning against US efforts at regime change overseas, based on
experiences over the entire post-World War II era. The author is a
postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy.*


*Thanks to Teresa Meade and an anonymous reader for flagging some of the
articles in the above list. Suggestions can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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