[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 2/17/21: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Can Historians Be Traumatized by History"*
<https://newrepublic.com/article/161127/can-historians-traumatized-history>
By *James Robins, **The New Republic, *posted February 16
*On the psychological difficulties of historians who delve into past
atrocities. The author is a journalist and historian who has written on the
Armenian genocide.*

*"Will the Nuclear Powers Ever Be Willing to Forgo Their Nuclear Weapons?"*
<https://apjjf.org/2021/4/Wittner.html>
<https://apjjf.org/2021/4/Wittner.html>
By* Lawrence S. Wittner, **Asia-Pacific Journal, posted February 15*
*Traces in detail the rise and decline of international efforts to curtail
the threat of nuclear warfare. "Although the public has not been
effectively mobilized for decades against nuclear catastrophe, the
potential for popular mobilization is clearly substantial." The author is a
professor emeritus of history at SUNY Albany.*

*"Trumpism after Trump: Beyond Fascism"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179134>
By *Gavriel Rosenfeld, *History News Network, posted February 14
*"To the extent that we can better understand the origins of MAGA-ism on
its own terms -- beyond the paradigm of fascism -- we will be better able
to counter the threat it poses to American democracy." The author teaches
history at Fairfield University and is co-editor with Janet Ward of the
forthcoming *Fascism in America: Past and Present *(Cambridge U. Press).*

*"The Never-Ending Frontier"*
<https://www.publicbooks.org/the-never-ending-frontier>
By *Karl Jacoby, **Public Books, *posted February 9
*A review essay on Benjamin D. Hopkins's *Ruling the Savage Periphery:
Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State *(Harvard U. Press,
2020)*, *drawing on British and American history.* *Karl Jacoby teaches
history at Columbia University.*

*"A Century Ago, White Protestant Extremism Marched in Washington"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/us/white-protestants-ku-klux-klan.html>
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/us/white-protestants-ku-klux-klan.html>
Interview with* Kelly J. Baker, **Washington Post, *posted February 7
*The interview compares the extremism that propelled the Ku Klux Klan in
the 1920s and today's white supremacist movement. Kelly J. Baker has a PhD
in religious history and is the author of *Gospel According to the Klan:
The KKK's Appeal to Protestand America, 1915-1930 *(U. Press of Kansas,
2017).*

*"The January 6th Assault on Congress and the Fate of the GOP's Faustian
Bargain with Trump: Notes from German History"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/178983>
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/178983>
By* Jeffrey L. Herf, *History News Network, posted January 31
*Compares the Republican establishment's relationship with Trump to the
German conservative elite's embrace of Hitler. "The party of big business,
hedge funds, country clubs and Wall Street also needed numbers, and so it
welcomed Trump as he gave it a mass of angry, resentful white voters...."
The author teaches modern European history at the University of Maryland.*

*"Why 1850 Doesn't Feel So Far Away"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/political-violence-congress.html>
By *Joanne B. Freeman, **New York Times, *posted January 29
* "Between 1830 and 1860, there were at least 70 violent incidents on the
House and Senate floors, most of them prompted by Southerners." The author
teaches history and American Studies at Yale University and has written *The
Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War *(Farrar,
Straus and Girous, 2018).*

*"Lone Wolves Connected On-Line: A History of Modern White Supremacy"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/us/louis-beam-white-supremacy-internet.html>
By *Laura Smith, **New York Times, *posted January 26
*A lengthy, detailed, and chilling account of white supremacists' use of
high technology, starting in the early 1980s, and sharing the catchphrase
"leaderless resistance."*

*"While America Was Sleeping: Waking from a Four-Year Fever Dream to Find
Global Power Gone"* <https://tomdispatch.com/while-america-was-sleeping>
By *Alfred McCoy, *TomDispatch.com, posted January 26
*"Despite an aura of overwhelming strength, empires, even ones as powerful
as America’s, often prove surprisingly fragile and their decline regularly
comes far sooner than anyone could have imagined." The author teaches
history at the University of Wisconsin. Among his books is *In the Shadows
of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power*
(Dispatch Books, 2017).*

*"The Origins of Trump's Last-Second, Slapdash '1776 Report'"*
<https://thebulwark.com/the-origins-of-trumps-slapdash-last-second-1776-report>
<https://thebulwark.com/the-origins-of-trumps-slapdash-last-second-1776-report>
By Joshua Tait, *Bulwark, *posted January 22
*Argues that, beyond its cartoonish aspect, the now-withdrawn "1776
Report"  reflected the continuing influence on the Right exercised by
students of the German-American scholar Leo Strauss. The author is a
historian of American conservatism with a PhD in US history from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.*

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