[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 7/10/20: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work"*
<https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2020/07/08/history-protests-social-change>
<https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2020/07/08/history-protests-social-change>
By* Kevin A. Young, **Yes! *magazine, posted July 8
*Uses examples from abolitionism, the civil rights movement, and the
Vietnam antiwar movement. The author teaches history at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst.*

*"The Story Behind the Lee Statue in Richmond, Virginia"*
<https://progressive.org/dispatches/story-behind-lee-statue-richmond-virginia-rachleff-200707>
<https://progressive.org/dispatches/story-behind-lee-statue-richmond-virginia-rachleff-200707>
By* Peter Rachleff, **The Progressive, *posted July 7
*Argues that the giant Robert E. Lee statue was a response to an
interracial workers' movement that won control of the city government in
1986 elections. The author is a professor emeritus of history at Macalester
College and author of *Black Labor in Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1890
* (U. of Illinois Press, 1989). *

*"Remember When America Killed Moscow's Soldiers"*
<https://original.antiwar.com/doug-bandow/2020/07/05/remember-when-america-killed-moscows-soldiers>
By* Doug Bandow, AntiWar.com, *posted July 6
*Puts the dubious claim of Russian bounties paid to Taliban soldiers for
killing Americans in historical perspective, including US support for
Islamic fundamentalists fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The author
is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.*

*"A Renaming Everyone Can Get Behind"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154370>
By *Jim Loewen, *History News Network, posted July 6
*An enjoyably tongue-in-cheek proposal to give the name Mount Reagan to the
highest point in Delaware. Among the author's books is *Lies Across
America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong *(New Press, 1999).*

*"Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech Showed Why Our Battle over History Is So
Fraught"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/05/trumps-mount-rushmore-speech-showed-why-our-battle-over-history-is-so-fraught>
By* Stetson Kastengren, **Washington Post, *posted July 5
*On the history of the Black Hills and the monument. The author is a PhD
student in history at the University of Illinois studying federal Indian
policy. He is an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe.*

*"It Is Time to Reconsider the Global Legacy of July 4, 1776"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/03/it-is-time-reconsider-global-legacy-july-4-1776>
By* Elizabeth Kolsky, **Washington Post, *posted July 3
*"American independence helped further colonialism and white supremacy."
The author teaches history at Villanova University and is the author
of *Colonial
Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law *(Cambridge U.
Press, 2011).*
* <https://www.nytimes.com/by/jugal-k-patel> *

*"Europe in 1989, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause"*
<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/europe-in-1989-america-in-2020-and-the-death-of-the-lost-cause>
<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/europe-in-1989-america-in-2020-and-the-death-of-the-lost-cause>
By *David W. Blight, **The New Yorker, *posted July 1
*Compares the toppling or removal of Confederate monuments to the fall of
the Berlin Wall. The summer of 2020, like the autumn of 1989, could mark
the death of a specific vision of history. The author teaches US history at
Yale University.*

*"Underwater: Global Warming to Flood the Ports of the Atlantic Slave
Trade"*
<https://tropicsofmeta.com/2020/07/01/underwater-global-warming-will-flood-the-former-ports-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade>
<https://tropicsofmeta.com/2020/07/01/underwater-global-warming-will-flood-the-former-ports-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade>
By* Daniel Domingues da Silva, **Tropics of Meta, *posted July 1
*The author teaches African history at Rice University and is co-manager
of  Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
<http://www.slavevoyages.org/> *

*"What Frederick Douglass Had to Say about Monuments"
<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-frederick-douglass-had-say-about-monuments-180975225>*
<https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-frederick-douglass-had-say-about-monuments-180975225>
By* Scott Sandage and Jonathan W. White, **Smithsonian Magazine, *posted
June 30
*"In a newly discovered letter, the famed abolitionist wrote that 'no one
monument could be made to tell the whole truth .'"The authors teach history
and American Studies, respectively, at Carnegie Mellon University and
Christopher Newport University.*

*"Racist Violence in Wilmington's Past Echoes in Police Officer Recordings
Today"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/26/racist-violence-wilmingtons-past-echoes-police-officer-recordings-today>
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/26/racist-violence-wilmingtons-past-echoes-police-officer-recordings-today>
By* Chrystal Sanders, **Washington Post, *posted June 26

*Relates the recent firing of three Wilmington, N.C. police officers caught
making racist and threatening remarks to the violent 1898 white supremacist
overthrow of the city's municipal government. The author teaches history at
Penn State. *

*Thanks to an anonymous reader for flagging several of the above articles.
Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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