[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 11/4/22: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*"The U.S. Response to the Holocaust Was Part of a Longer Pattern of
Appeasing Fascism"* <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/184300>
By* Roger Peace, *History News Network, posted October 30
*Argues that US policy long tolerated the Mussolini and Hitler regimes.
"Essentially, the policy of appeasement was based on the view that
communism constituted a mortal threat to Western society, whereas fascism
was acceptable, if not a positive antidote to communism." The author
coordinates the open-source website *U.S. Foreign Policy History and
Resource Guide <http://peacehistory-usfp.org/>, co-sponsored by H-PAD and
the Peace History Society.

*"'Originalism Is Intellectually Indefensible': Eric Foner on the Enduring
Myth of the Colorblind Constitution"*
<https://ballsandstrikes.org/qa/eric-foner-originalism-colorblind-constitution-myth>
Conversation between* Eric Foner and Christian Faias, **Balls and
Strikes, *posted
October 28
*"There’s nothing wrong with figuring out what people were trying to do.
That’s part of the historical effort to understand the time period. But to
think that there’s one original meaning is just foolish, in my opinion."
Uses the Fourteenth Amendment as an example. *

*Eric Foner is a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University.*

*"Ukraine's War Is Like World War I, Not World War II"*
<https://archive.ph/ZRlVZ>
By* Anatol Lieven, **Foreign Policy, *posted October 27

*Points to elements of ambiguity and unintended consequences in the
1914-1918 war and warns against a drive for complete victory in Ukraine.
The author is a British journalist and a senior fellow at the Quincy
Institute for Responsible Statecraft.*

*"The Cuban Missile Crisis @60: The Most Dangerous Day"*
<https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba-cuban-missile-crisis/2022-10-27/cuban-missile-crisis-60-most-dangerous-day>
By the *National Security Archive, *posted October 27
*A hair-raising account of human errors and misunderstandings that could
have led to full scale warfare - " a rapid escalation that convinced both
John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev to strike the deal that would stop
events from further spiraling out of control." Part of a series by George
Washington University's National Security Archive on lessons from the
missile crisis. *

*"Standards of Revision: Partisan Politics Comes to South Dakota Schools"*
<https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/february-2023/standards-of-revision-partisan-politics-comes-to-south-dakotas-schools>
By *Stephen Jackson, **Perspectives on History* (American Historical
Association), posted October 26

*Recounts the triumph of conservative ideology over historical expertise in
setting a state's standards for K-12 social studies education.The author
was a member of the original state-level working group whose proposed
standards were short-circuited by Republican governor Kristy Noem. He
teaches history at the University of Sioux Falls.*

*"Mike Davis: 1946-2022"* <https://archive.ph/XNKz2>
*By Jon Wiener, **The Nation, *posted October 25
*"A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist's eye and a historian's
memory." * *The author is a professor emeritus of history at the University
of California. Irvine, and was co-author of Mike Davis of *Set the Night on
Fire: L.A. in the Sixties *(Verso, 2020).*

*"After 50 Years, the Truth about the Vietnam Peace Agreement Remains
Elusive"* <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/184244>
By* Arnold R. Isaacs, *History News Network, posted October 23
*Refutes the Pentagon's official claim that the"Christmas bombing" of
December 1972 was responsible for getting North Vietnam to agree to the
January peace agreement. "During the last 50 years, that false memory has
helped perpetuate an exaggerated faith in air power that distorted American
strategic thinking in Vietnam and ever since." The author was a foreign
correspondent, including time in Vietnam in the early 1970s.*

*"Biden Has an 'Off-Ramp' on Ukraine"*
*https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2022/10/20/biden-has-an-off-ramp-on-ukraine
<https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2022/10/20/biden-has-an-off-ramp-on-ukraine>*
*By Ray McGovern, *AntiWar.com, posted October 21
*Argues that Putin's chief concern is with medium-range missiles "that can
be inserted virtually overnight into capsules in Romania, Poland, and
eventually elsewhere on Russia’s periphery," and that bargaining on this
issue can be a starting point for negotiations on the Ukraine War. The
author was a CIA analyst for 27 years, serving presidents from Kennedy
through George H. W. Bush.*

*"The Cuban Missile Crisis @60: How John F. Kennedy Sacrificed His Most
Consequential Crisis Advisor"*
<https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba-cuban-missile-crisis/2022-10-17/cuban-missile-crisis-60-how-john-f-kennedy>
By *National Security Archive, *posted October 17
*Presents documents showing that UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson's advice to
President Kennedy at the outset of the missile crisis became the basis for
the secret agreement by which Soviet missiles were withdrawn from Cuba and
US missiles from Turkey. In the interest of keeping the Turkey agreement
secret, the administration spread the story that Stevenson had been vaguely
dovish and that Kennedy's toughness had forced the Soviets to back down.*

*"US officials, having Stabbed Palestinians in the Back for Decades, now
'Offended' that President Abbas doesn’t Trust them and Wants Russia
Involved"*
<https://www.juancole.com/2022/10/officials-palestinians-president.html>
By *Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted October 17
*"Palestinians have complained for three decades that there is no
difference between the US position and the Israeli one whenever they have
engaged in negotiations, so that the US acts as an echo chamber for Tel
Aviv rather than as an independent referee." The author teaches Middle East
history at the University of Michigan.*

*"James Q. Whitman on the American Influence on Nazi Race Laws"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154643>
Interview with *James Q. Whitman* by *Robin Lindley, *History News Network,
posted October 14
*A lengthy wide-ranging interview James Q. Whitman about the ideas in his
book *Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi
Race Law* (Princeton U. Press, 2017). Prof. Whitman has a PhD in history as
well as a law degree and teaches Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale
University.*

*"America's Top Censor - So Far"*
<https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/hochschild-woodrow-wilson-censor-journalism>
By *Adam Hochschild, **Mother Jones, *September-October issue
*On the reign of terror administered by Woodrow Wilson's postmaster general
Albert Burleson, who used the Espionage and Sedition acts during World War
I to shut down dozens of periodicals and can some issues of many others.
The author's latest book is *American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent
Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis* (Mariner Books, 2022), from which
this article is adapted. *


*Thanks to an anonymous reader for suggesting some of the above articles
and to Roger Peace for helping evaluate possible articles (other than his
own) for the list. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48 at gmail.com
<jimobrien48 at gmail.com>. *
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