[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 5/27/20: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

 *Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Trump's Little Big Horn: In the War on Coronavirus, We needed an
Eisenhower; We Got Custer"*
<https://www.juancole.com/2020/05/trumps-coronavirus-eisenhower.html>
By* Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted May 24

*Uses the Allies' strategy in building toward D-Day to critique Trump's
lack of a plan regarding Covid-19. The author teaches history at the
University of Michigan.  *

*"Tolerance and Violence: The Fate of Religious Minorities During the
Plague Under Christianity and Islam"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/175624>
By* Selina O'Grady, *History News Network, posted May 24
*On the differing reactions of Christendom and the Islamic world to the
Black Death of the fourteenth century. The author is a BBC radio and
television producer and author of the book *In the Name of God: The Role of
Religion in the Modern World *(Pegasus, 2020)*.

*"The History of Puerto Rico Shows That Nationalism Can Be Liberatory
Rather Than Xenophobic"*
<https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2020/05/21/the-history-of-puerto-rico-shows-that-nationalism-can-be-liberatory-rather-than-xenophobic>
By *Margaret Power, *LSE [London School of Economics] Latin America and
Caribbean blog, posted May 21
*On the nearly 100-year history of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. The
author teaches history at the Illinois Institute of Technology and is
co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy.*

*"The Potential Risk of Chasing a Covid-19 Vaccine"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/19/potential-risk-chasing-covid-19-vaccine>
By *Heidi Morefield, **Washington Post, *posted May 19
*Cites the frustrated efforts to develop vaccines for malaria and HIV-AIDS
in warning that the vaccine search mustn't come at the expense of
strengthening the public health infrastructure. The author is a historian
of medicine and technology in the global health program at Princeton
University.*

*"America's Immigration Paradox"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/books/review/one-mighty-and-irresistible-tide-jia-lynn-yang-the-deportation-machine-adam-goodman.html>
By *David Nasaw, **New York Times, *posted May 19
*A review-essay on new books by Jia Lynn Yang and Adam Goodman on the
history of US immigration policy. The author is a professor emeritus of
history at the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, on Europe's displaced
persons after World War II, will be published in September.*

*"How 'Jakarta' Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing"*
<https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-the-codeword-for-us-backed-mass-killing>
By* Vincent Bevins, **NYR [New York Review of Books] Daily, *posted May 18
*A long article on the US-encouraged mass murders of up to a million
Indonesians in 1965-66, excerpted from the author's just-published book, *The
Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder
Program that Shaped Our World *(Public Affairs Press).*

*"The Contagion and a Cure"*
<http://www.lawcha.org/2020/05/18/the-contagion-and-a-cure>
By *Mark Lause, **LABOR Online, *posted May 18
*Reflections on class and race in Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic of
1793 and today's pandemic. The author teaches history at the University of
Cincinnati and has written widely on US working-class history.*

*"U.S. Regional Imperialism: Big Sticks, and Even Bigger Guns"*
<https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/farce-or-foreboding-venezuela-the-new-american-way-of-war>
<https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/farce-or-foreboding-venezuela-the-new-american-way-of-war>
By* Danny Sjursen, **The American Conservative, *posted May 18

*"Our history in Latin America is marked by arrogance and aggression. Is
what's happening in Venezuela any different?" The author is a retired US
Army major who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and has taught
history at West Point.*

*"An 'Illiberal Democracy' If Trump Wins Again"*
<https://organizingupgrade.com/an-illiberal-democracy-if-trump-wins-again>
By* Van Gosse, **Organizing Upgrade, *posted May 14
*Warns that the US is in danger of joining the worldwide trend of formally
democratic authoritarian states seen in nations such as India, Brazil,
Turkey, Russia, Poland, and Hungary. The author teaches history at Franklin
and Marshall College and is co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy.*

*"How Covid-19 Exposed the Deep Divide Between White Rural Georgia and
Atlanta"*
<https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/05/06/covid-19-divide-rural-georgia-atlanta-governor-kemp/ideas/essay>
By* James C. Cobb, **Zócalo Public Square, *posted May 6
*"In defying the CDC's expert advice, Governor Kemp is employing a
political strategy more than 150 years old." The author is a professor
emeritus of history at the University of Georgia.*

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