[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 6/12/20: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Richmond's Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated
Neighborhood"*
<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/its-not-just-the-monuments/612940>
By *Kevin M. Levin, **The Atlantic, *posted June 11
*"Real Estate Developers used the statues on Monument Avenue to draw white
buyers to a neighborhood where houses could not be sold 'to any person of
African descent.'" The author is a historian who wrote *Searching for Black
Confederates: The Old South's Most Persistent Myth *(U. of North Carolina
Press, 2019).*

*"Confederate Statues Are Being Removed Amid Protests over George Floyd's
Death. Here's What to Know"*
<https://time.com/5849184/confederate-statues-removed>
By *Jasmine Aguilera, **Time, *posted June 10
*A useful roundup, with quotes from historians James Grossman, Khalil
Muhammad, and Dana Ramey Berry.*

*"'Riots,' 'Mobs,' 'Chaos': The Establishment Always Frames Change as
Dangerous"*
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/10/protest-black-lives-matter-police-activism>
By *Keisha N. Blain and Tom Zoellner, **The Guardian, *posted June 10
*Compares present-day protests against the current order of American
policing to antislavery resistance in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Keisha Blain teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh and Tom
Zoeller is the author of *Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in
the British Empire* (Harvard U. Press, 2020).*

*"Don't Worry about 'Rewriting History': It's Literally What We Historians
Do"*
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/10/rewriting-history-historians-statue-past>
By *Charlotte Lydia Riley, **The Guardian,* posted June 10
*On the toppling of Edward Colston's and other statues. The author teaches
British history at the University of Southampton.*

*"Will 2020 Finally Kill America's War Fetish?"*
<https://newrepublic.com/article/158092/will-2020-finally-kill-americas-war-fetish?>
By *Andrew J. Bacevich, *The New Republic, posted June 9
*An essay on the nation's obsession with war in the entire post-World War
II era. "The US has historically chosen war to address all kinds of
problems: terror, drugs, unfriendly countries. This time is different." The
author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at
Boston University.*

*"Subverting New York's Police Brutality Policy"*
<https://www.laprogressive.com/curb-police-brutality/>
By *Lawrence Wittner, *LA Progressive, posted June 8
*A short account of efforts since the 1950s to make New York City police
officers accountable to the public. The author is a professor emeritus of
history at SUNY Albany.*

*"Turning Points and Roads Not Taken in American Foreign Policy"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/175832>
*By Roger Peace, *History News Network, posted June 7
*A short piece on US decision making after World War II and at the end of
the Cold War, based on new essays in the United States Foreign Policy
History and Resource Guide <http://peacehistory-usfp.org/> website,
sponsored by H-PAD and the Peace History Society. The author is a former
college history teacher and is coordinator of the website.*

*"How Racist Policing Took Over American Cities, Explained by a Historian"*
<https://www.vox.com/2020/6/6/21280643/police-brutality-violence-protests-racism-khalil-muhammad>
Interview with *Khalil Muhammad, **Vox, *posted June 6
*Khalil Muhammad teaches history, race, and public policy at the Harvard
University's Kennedy School of Government, and is the author of *The
Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Ureban
America *(Harvard U. Press, 2010).*

*"How Police Became Paramilitaries"*
<https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/03/how-police-became-paramilitaries>
<https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/03/how-police-became-paramilitaries>
By *Michael Shank, **NYR [New York Review of Books] Daily,*posted June 3
*On the influence of Defense Department transfers of military-grade weapons
and Israeli training on the evolution of local police forces in the US.*

*"George Floyd's Death Is a Failure of Generations of Leadership"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/george-floyd-protests-1960s.html>
*By Elizabeth Hinton, **New York Times, *posted June 2
*On federal "tough-on-crime policies since the late 1960s. The author
teaches history and African American studies at Harvard University and has
written *From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass
Incarceration in America *(Harvard U. Press, 2017).*

*Thanks to 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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