[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 4/9/21: Virtual conference; links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Note:  *"Truth, Dissent & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg,"
<https://www.umass.edu/history/ellsberg-conference> a virtual national
conference commemorating the release of the Pentagon Papers 50 years ago,
will take place Friday and Saturday April 30 and May 1, sponsored by the
History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The speakers
list <https://www.umass.edu/history/node/21923> is extraordinary, including
Ellsberg himself as well as Edward Snowden, John Dean, Frances FitzGerald,
Elizabeth Holtzman, and many others. The conference is "Free, Online, and
Open to All."

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Back to the Future at the Pentagon: Why 2021 Looks So Much Like 1981 -
And Why That Should Scare Us"*
<https://tomdispatch.com/back-to-the-future-at-the-pentagon>
By *William Astore, *TomDispatch.com, posted April 8
*On the revival of traditional Cold War thinking in US military planning.
The author, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, taught history for
fifteen years at military and civilian schools.*

*"'The Most Dangerous Man' Turns 90 - Peter Kuznick on Daniel Ellsberg"*
<https://theanalysis.news/interviews/the-most-dangerous-man-turns-90-peter-kuznick-on-daniel-ellsberg>
*Transcribed interview with Peter Kuznick*, theAnalysis.news, posted April
8.
*"On the significance of Daniel Ellsberg's decades of fighting against US
military policies starting with his release of the Pentagon Papers 50 years
ago. Peter Kuznick teaches history at American University, where he is
director of the Nuclear Studies Institute.*

*"'This Is Still Being Suppressed': OU Professor's Book of Recovered Photos
Preserves History of Tulsa Race Massacre"*
<https://www.oudaily.com/crimson_quarterly/this-is-still-being-suppressed-ou-professors-book-of-recovered-photos-preserves-history-of-tulsa/article_2b4a1c3a-9250-11eb-8fbc-e7973cbf6d3e.html>
By *Ari Fife, **OU [University of Oklahoma] Daily, *posted April 6
*A richly illustrated article with scholars' commentary on the long history
of suppression and denial of the 1921 massacre of up to 300 Black residents
of Tulsa. The author is a journalism student at the University of Oklahoma.*

*"The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179776>
*By Jason Morgan Ward*, *New York Times, *posted March 31
*"The long struggle to block access to the ballot has always relied on
legal maneuvering and political schemes to achieve what bullets and bombs
alone could not." The author teaches history at Emory University. Among his
books is Defending *White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist
Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 *(U. of North
Carolina Press, 2011).*

*"Will Biden's Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)? The
New Border Politics of the Biden Era Are Actually Ancient History*
<https://tomdispatch.com/will-bidens-central-american-plan-slow-migration-or-speed-it-up>
By *Aviva Chomsky,*TomDispatch.com, posted March 30
*The author teaches history at Salem State University. Her new book*
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of
Migration *is due out later this month from Beacon Press.*

*"A History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility: Why the
Asian-American Story is Missing from Many U.S. Classrooms"*
<https://time.com/5949028/asian-american-history-schools>
By *Olivia B. Waxman, **Time* magazine, posted March 30
*A readable, illustrated article that gives voice to many educators about
ways in which Asian-American history is missing or misrepresented in K-12
education. The author is a *Time* staff writer.*

*"America's Longest War Winds Down: No Bang, No Whimper, No Victory"*
<https://tomdispatch.com/americas-longest-war-winds-down>
*By Andrew Bacevich, *TomDispatch.com, posted March 28
*A summing-up of twenty years of the US war in Afghanistan. The author is a
professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston
University and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible
Statecraft. His most recent book is *The Age of Illusions: How American
Squandered It Cold War Victory *(Macmillan, 2020).*

*"Historians for Peace and Democracy Present Free Resources for History
Educators"* <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179723>
*By Margaret Power and Kevin Young, *History News Network, posted March 28
*On the Virtual Speakers Program recently launched by H-PAD, along with
other resources. The authors teach history at the Illinois Institute of
Technology and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, respectively.
Margaret Power is co-chair of H-PAD and Kevin Young a member of the
steering committee.*

*"Argentina's Military Coup of 1976: What the US Knew"*
<https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/southern-cone/2021-03-23/argentinas-military-coup-what-us-knew>
*Edited by Carlos Osorio, National Security Archive, posted March 23*

*A set of declassified documents related to US government knowledge of the
plotting behind a military coup that led to seven years of bloody
dictatorship in Argentina. The latest of many "briefing books" on episodes
in US foreign policy from the National Security Archive at George
Washington University.*

*"Washington's Delusion of Endless World Domination: China and the U.S.
Struggle over Eurasia, the Epicenter of World Power"*
<https://tomdispatch.com/washingtons-delusion-of-endless-world-dominion>
*By Alfred McCoy, *TomDispatch.com, posted March 21
*An overview of strategic moves by China and the US and the need for
cooperation amid climate change.The author teaches history at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and his books include *In the Shadows of
the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power *(Dispatch
Books, 2017).*

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