[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 10/23/20: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Which Constitution Is Amy Coney Barrett Talking About?"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/opinion/amy-coney-barrett-originalism.html>
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/opinion/amy-coney-barrett-originalism.html>
By* Jamelle Bouie, **New York Times, *posted October 16
*Based on work by Eric Foner and other historians, the *Times
*columnist argues that that the Civil War and Reconstruction made radical
changes in the meaning of the Constitution. As Foner put it, the 13th,
14th, and 15th amendments "created a fundamentally new document with a new
definition of both the status of blacks and the rights of all Americans."*

*"The Framers of the Constitution Didn't Worry about 'Originalism'"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/originalism-constitution-founders-barrett/2020/10/16/1906922e-0f33-11eb-8a35-237ef1eb2ef7_story.html>
By *Jack Rakove,** Washington Post, *posted October 16
*"History shows that the original text is far more complex than the legal
doctrine might indicate." The author teaches history and American Studies
at Stanford University. His book *Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in
the Making of the Constitution *won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in history.*

*"Toward a Global History of White Supremacy"*
<https://bostonreview.net/race/daniel-geary-camilla-schofield-jennifer-sutton-toward-global-history-white-supremacy>
By* Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, and Jennifer Sutton, **Boston
Review, *posted
October 16
*"The simultaneous success of Trump and Brexit was no coincidence: white
supremacist politics are international in scope and often share entwined
histories." Daniel Geary and Camilla Schofield teach history at Trinity
College Dublin and the University of East Anglia, respectively; Jennifer
Sutton is an independent scholar with a PhD in history from Washington
University.*

*"The Right's War on Universities"*
<https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/15/the-rights-war-on-universities>
By* Ruth Ben-Ghiat, **NYR [New York Review of Books] Daily,* posted October
15
*"Authoritarians from Mussolini onward have seen colleges as holdouts of
liberal democracy--and attacked them relentlessly." The author teaches
history and Italian studies at New York University.*

*"Republican Judges Are Quietly Upending Public Health Laws"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/opinion/coronavirus-health-courts.html>
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/opinion/coronavirus-health-courts.html>
By
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/opinion/coronavirus-health-courts.html>*
John Fabian Witt
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/opinion/coronavirus-health-courts.html>,
**New York Times, *posted October 15
*Republicans' "campaign to take over the federal and state courts"
threatens "a long and deeply embedded tradition of upholding vital public
health regulations." The author teaches law and history at Yale University
and is the author of *American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from
Smallpox to Covid-19 *(Yale U. Press, forthcoming October 27).*

*"America Has No Reason to Be So Powerful"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/opinion/america-global-power.html>
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/opinion/america-global-power.html>
By *Stephen Wertheim, **New York Times, *posted October 15
*"Eighty years ago, the United States made a tragic decision to pursue
global supremacy. The project has outlived its purpose." The author is a
staff member of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and author
of *Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy *(Harvard U.
Press, forthcoming October 27).*

*"How Do Pandemics End? History Suggests Diseases Fade But Are Almost Never
Truly Gone"*
<https://theconversation.com/how-do-pandemics-end-history-suggests-diseases-fade-but-are-almost-never-truly-gone-146066>
<https://theconversation.com/how-do-pandemics-end-history-suggests-diseases-fade-but-are-almost-never-truly-gone-146066>
By* Nűkhet Varlik, **The Conversation, *posted October 14

*A warning against expecting the complete eradication of the coronavirus.
The author teaches history at Rutgers University and specializes in the
early modern history of medicine and health in the Mediterranean world.*

*"Military Bases Never Go Unused"*
https://davidswanson.org/military-bases-never-go-unused
By* David Swanson, *Let's Try Democracy blog, posted October 13
*A review essay on David Vine's new book *The United States of War: A
Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic
State *(U. of California Press, October 2020). David Swanson is a prolific
antiwar writer and radio commentator and campaign coordinator of
RootsAction.org.*

*"Demon vs. Monster: The Vice-Presidential Debate and an Historian's
Harassment"*
<https://academeblog.org/2020/10/13/demon-vs-monster-the-vice-presidential-debate-and-an-historians-harassment>
<https://academeblog.org/2020/10/13/demon-vs-monster-the-vice-presidential-debate-and-an-historians-harassment>
By* Hank Reichman, **Academe *Blog, posted October 13
*On threats by the administration of Collin College in Texas to discipline
historian L. D. Burnett for her tongue-in-cheek characterization of Vice
President Pence as a "demon" (in a blog entry on the Harris-Spence
debate).Hank Reichman is a professor emeritus of history at California
State University, East Bay and is the Chair of the AAUP's Committee A on
Academic Freedom and Tenure. On this episode, see also October 16
commentary on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education website
<https://www.thefire.org/in-hinting-at-the-execution-of-personnel-policies-collin-college-betrays-its-duty-to-vigorously-defend-professor-who-criticized-pence/>.)*

*"My Memories of Voter Suppression"*
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/177743
By* Lawrence Wittner, *History News Network, posted October 12
*A historian's personal account of working for voting rights in Louisiana
in the summer of 1962, The author is a professor emeritus of history at
SUNY Albany.*

*"Fragments from a Past - La Lotta Continua"*
<https://againstthecurrent.org/fragments-from-a-past-la-lotta-continua>
<https://againstthecurrent.org/fragments-from-a-past-la-lotta-continua>
By *Jeffrey L. Gould, **Against the Current, *posted September 10

*Another personal experience account by a historian, this one drawing
lessons from the author's highly varied experiences in labor and solidarity
movements from the mid-1960s to the late '80s in the US, Italy, and Central
America. The author now teaches history at Indiana University.*

*Thanks to Kevin Young 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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