[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes, 9/10/20: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Patton and Westy Meet in a Bar"* <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176747>
By* Andrew Bacevich, *TomDispatch.com, posted September 10
*A fanciful alcohol-fueled conversation between long-dead generals George
Patton and William Westmoreland and a fictitious general who has served in
Iraq and Afghanistan. The author is a retired Army colonel and a professor
emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University.*

*"Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States' Post-9/11
Wars"*
<https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2020/Displacement_Vine%20et%20al_Costs%20of%20War%202020%2009%2008.pdf>
By *David Vine et al., *Watson Institute, Brown University, posted
September 8

*This new report from the Watson Institute's Costs of War Project at Brown
University estimates that "at least 37 million people have fled their homes
in the eight most violent wars the U.S. military has launched or
participated in since 2001."*

*"'Allende Wins'"*
<https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2020-09-04/allende-wins>
Briefing book edited by *Peter Kornbluh, *National Security Archive, posted
September 4
*On the 50th anniversary of socialist Salvador Allende's election as
president of Chile, Georgetown University's National Security Archive has
published declassified documents showing that the Nixon administration
began immediate efforts to destabilize Chile, leading to the military coup
of September 1973.*

*"Obama's 'Biggest Mistake' Is Still Wreaking Havoc"*
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/03/opinion/obamas-biggest-mistake-is-still-wreaking-havoc>
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/03/opinion/obamas-biggest-mistake-is-still-wreaking-havoc>
*By Stephen Kinzer, **Boston Globe, *posted September 3
*On the continuing damage done by the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya. The
author is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and
Public Affairs at Brown University. *

*"Gerald Ford Rushed Out a Vaccine. It Was a Fiasco"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-trump.html>
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-trump.html>
By* Rick Perlstein, **New York Times, *posted September 2
*On the Ford administration's hurried election-year production of a vaccine
that caused hundreds of cases of the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The author has written several books on modern American conservatism, most
recently *Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 *(Simon and Schuster,
2020).*

*"Opening Up New Avenues to Understanding the Path to War in Iraq"*
<https://warontherocks.com/2020/09/opening-up-new-avenues-to-understanding-the-path-to-war-in-iraq>
By *Joseph Stieb, **War on the Rocks,* posted September 1
*A review essay on Robert Draper's new book *To Start a War: How the Bush
Administration Took America into Iraq *(Penguin Press, 2020). The author of
the essay has a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina and is
writing a book on the containment of Iraq.*

*"For Black Women, the 19th Amendment Marked, Not the End but the Beginning
of the Movement for Voting Rights"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/25/black-women-19th-amendment-didnt-end-started-movement-voting-rights>
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/25/black-women-19th-amendment-didnt-end-started-movement-voting-rights>
By *Martha S. Jones, **Washington Post, *posted August 25
*The author teaches history at** Johns Hopkins University, and her
book *Vanguard:
How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for
All
*is due in September from Basic Books.*

*"Belligerent Patriotism, or Why Donald Trump Cannot Mourn the Dead"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/177007>
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/177007>
By* John Bodnar, *History News Network, posted August 23
*The author is a professor emeritus of history at Indiana University and
author of *Divided by Terror: Patriotism in Post-9-11 America* (U. of North
Carolina Press, 2021). *

*"Jimmy Carter Tried to Make It Easier to Vote in 1977. The Right Stopped
Him with the Same Arguments It Is Using Today"*
<https://time.com/5881305/president-carter-election-reform>
* <https://time.com/5881305/president-carter-election-reform>*
By *Rick Perlstein, **Time, *posted August 20
*On the successful effort by the rising conservative movement within the
Republican Party to force the party's congressional leaders to abandon
their initial support for President Carter's proposals to make voter
registration easier through national legislation.*

*"What We Don't Understand about Fascism"*
<https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/08/13/understand-fascism-american-history-mussolini-hitler-20th-century/ideas/essay>
<https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/08/13/understand-fascism-american-history-mussolini-hitler-20th-century/ideas/essay>
By* Victoria de Grazia, **Zocalo Public Square*, posted August 13
*"Using the word incorrectly oversimplifies history - and won't help us
address our current political crisis." The author teaches history at
Columbia University and is the author of, among other books, of *The
Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's
Italy *(Harvard
U. Press, 2020).*


*Thanks to 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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