[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 6/1/21: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Eisenhower Rejected Military Chiefs' Demand for Nuclear War on China,
Classified Account of '58 Taiwan Strait Crisis Reveals"*
<https://mronline.org/2021/05/31/eisenhower-rejected-military-chiefs-demand-for-nuclear-war-on-china-classified-account-of-58-taiwan-strait-crisis-reveals>
By* Gareth Porter, **MR Online, *posted May 31
*Based on a Pentagon-sponsored account of the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis,
kept secret for more than fifty years and recently released by Daniel
Ellsberg. "The report provides a hair-raising portrait of a reckless U.S.
military leadership relentlessly pressing President Dwight Eisenhower for
the authority to carry out nuclear attacks on communist China." The author
is a longtime analyst of US policies in Asia.*

*"In 1844, Native Protestants Burned Churches in the Name of Religious
Liberty" <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/180388>*
By *Zachary M. Schrag, *History News Network, posted May 31
*On the anti-Catholic riots of 1844 in Philadelphia and their background.
The author teaches history at George Mason University and is the author of
a forthcoming book on the Philadelphia riots, *The Fires of
Philadelphia *(Pegasus
Books, publication date June 1).*

*"Ronald Reagan Made Central America a Killing Field"*
<https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/greg-grandin-empires-workshop-latin-america>
Interview with *Greg Grandin *by Sasha Lilly, *Jacobin,* posted May 31
*This interview was conducted in connection with the re-issuing of Greg
Grandin's 2006 book *Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States
and the Making of an Imperial Republic. *The author teaches history at New
York University and his most recent book is *The End of the Myth: From the
Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America *(Metropolitan Books,
2019). *

*"The Devastation of the Tulsa Race Massacre"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2021/tulsa-race-massacre-centennial-greenwood/?wpmk=1&wpisrc=al_special_report__alert-national&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere_special_report&location=alert&pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.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.kHMHQSirFvHhmhTPINahjE23iC33y0Jj_QO4JQIRli4>
By *DeNeen L. Brown,** Washington Post, *posted May 28
*A stunning illustrated history of the Tulsa massacre of 100 years ago,
including old photographs and movie clips and photos of the three survivors
who testified before a congressional committee this year. The author is an
award-winning staff writer for the *Washington Post.

*"Coexistences in the Holy Land"*
<https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/coexistences-in-the-holy-land>
By* Ussama Makdisi, **Los Angeles Review of Books, *posted May 28
*A capsule history of Palestine since the Ottoman period that was marked by
genuine coexistence but ended in World War I." The author teaches history
and Arab Studies at Rice University and is the author of *Age of
Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World *(U.
of California Press, forthcoming in October).*

*"The Century-Old Law That Inaugurated Biden's Border Problems"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/19/century-old-law-that-inaugurated-bidens-border-problems>
By* Reece Jones, **Washington Post, *posted May 19
*On the Emergency Quota Act, signed into law by President Harding on May
19, 1921. The author teaches geography and environment at the University of
Hawai‘i and wrote *White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in
the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall *(Beacon Press,
forthcoming in September).*

*"What Is Critical Race Theory and Why Did Oklahoma Just Ban It"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/19/what-is-critical-race-theory-why-did-oklahoma-just-ban-it>
By* Kathryn Schumaker, **Washington Post, *posted May 19
*"The Theory, drawing the ire of the right, helps us to understand our
past." The author teaches classics and letters at the University of
Oklahoma. She is the author of *Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial
Justice in the Long 1960s* (NYU Press, forthcoming July 2). *

*"New Documentary 'Exterminate All the Brutes' Was 500 Years in the Making"*
<https://theintercept.com/2021/05/02/exterminate-all-the-brutes-hbo>
By* Jon Schwartz, **The Intercept, *posted May 2

*On the significance of Raoul Peck's four-hour HBO miniseries "Exterminate
All the Brutes," tracing the violent history of white supremacy over 500
years. The very existence for such a radical film "means that deep tectonic
plates are shifting in the world’s consciousness." *

*"Vaccine Skeptics Should Heed George Washington's Example"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/180224>
By *Robert Brent Toplin, *History News Network, posted May 16
*On the mandatory inoculation against smallpox of all Continental Army
soldiers in 1777 who had not previously contracted the disease. The author
was a professor of history at Denison University and the University of
North Carolina, Wilmington and has taught courses at the University of
Virginia in retirement.*

*"Review: The Story of Three Women Who Co-Conspired for Abolition and
Women's Rights"*
<https://www.thenationalbookreview.com/features/2021/5/8/review-the-story-of-three-women-who-co-conspired-for-abolition-and-womens-rights>
By *Ann Fabian, **The **National Book Review, *posted *May 8*
*A review essay on Dorothy Wickenden's book The Agitators *(Scribner, 2021)
about* Frances Miller Seward, Martha Coffin Wright, and Harriet Tubman,
friends and activists who knew each other in Auburn, New York in the 1850s.
Ann Fabian is a professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University and
author of *The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century
America *(U. of California Press, 2002).*


*Thanks to Jerise Fogel 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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