[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 1/18/21: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"The Great Evasion"* <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/178790>
By *Lawrence Wittner, *History News Network, posted January 17
*A capsule history of nuclear-weapons policies, with emphasis on the role
of popular pressure in securing such steps that have occasionally been
taken to reduce the risk of catastrophic war. The author is a professor
emeritus of history at SUNY Albany.*

*"The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical
America"*
<https://newrepublic.com/article/160922/capitol-riot-revealed-darkest-nightmares-white-evangelical-america>
By* Matthew Avery Sutton, **New Republic, *posted January 14
*"How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection."
The author is chair of the History Department at Washington State
University and author of *American Apocalypse: A History of Modern
Evangelicalism* (Harvard U. Press, 2017).*

*"Trump Is the Republican Party's Past and Its Future"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/opinion/gop-trump.html>
*By Lisa McGirr, **New York Times, *posted January 13
*"Donald Trump Is Not an Aberration But a Blueprint." The author teaches
history at Harvard University and is the author of *Suburban Warriors: The
Origins of the New American Right* (updated edition Princeton U. Press,
2015).*

*"Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition"*
<https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/disenfranchisement-an-american-tradition>
*By Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, **Dissent, *Winter 2021 issue
*On the multiple tactics that have been employed in the interest of voter
suppression. The author teaches history at Cornell University and is
currently writing a history of US democracy since the 1965 Voting Rights
Act focusing on nonvoters.*

*"Can Burns Change the CIA?"*
<https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/12/ray-mcgovern-can-burns-change-the-cia>
By *Ray McGovern, **Consortium News,* posted January 12
*The author, who served in the CIA for 27 years under nine presidents,
relates past history in considering whether the longtime diplomat William
Burns, appointed head of the agency, can change its culture. *

*"How Trumpism May Endure"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/opinion/trump-capitol-lost-cause.html>
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/opinion/trump-capitol-lost-cause.html>
By *David W. Blight, **New York Times, *posted January 9
* A warning from the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy after the Civil War.
"All Lost Causes find their lifeblood in lies, big and small, lies born of
beliefs in search of a history that can be forged into a story and mobilize
masses of people to act politically, violently, and in the name of
ideology." The author teaches history at Yale University and has written
many books on the Civil War era.*

*"What Trump Shares with the 'Lost Cause' of the Confederacy"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/trump-confederacy-lost-cause.html>
By* Karen L. Cox, **New York Times, *posted January 8
*The author teaches history at the University of North Carolina. Her book *No
Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial
Justice
* is forthcoming from the U. of North Carolina Press. *

*"The Deep Origins of Latino Support for Trump"*
<https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-deep-origins-of-latino-support-for-trump>
By* Geraldo Cadava, **The New Yorker, *posted December 29
*On the diverse reasons why a larger-than-expected minority of Latino
voters supported Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The author teaches
history and Latino Studies at Northwestern University.*

*"It's Almost Twenty Years Since 9/11: Can We Finally Stop Marching to
Disaster?"*
<https://tomdispatch.com/its-almost-twenty-years-since-9-11/#more>
By* Rebecca Gordon, *TomDispatch.com, posted December 17
*An overview of the "war on terror" in its ramifications. The author is a
longtime antiwar activist who teaches at the University of San Francisco
and is the author of *American Nuremburg: The U.S. Officials Who Should
Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes *(Simon & Schustert. 2016).*

*"Immigration Cruelty Didn't Start with Trump. Will It End with Biden?"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/10/immigration-cruelty-didnt-start-with-trump-will-it-end-under-biden>
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/10/immigration-cruelty-didnt-start-with-trump-will-it-end-under-biden>
By *Elliott Young, **Washington Post, *posted December 10
*"The president’s immigration regime is the culmination of 140 years of
harsh policies." The author teaches history at Lewis & Clark College and is
the author of  *Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s
Largest Immigrant Detention System *(Oxford U. Press. forthcoming in
January).*


*Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg and an anonymous reader for suggesting articles
included in the above list. Suggestions can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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