[H-PAD] Let’s hit the ground running this fall!

[Van Gosse]

Dear H-PAD members and friends,



We have had a busy spring and summer, as historians and activists:



*In collaboration with the African American Policy Forum and the AAUP,
we** helped
organize a campaign that encouraged over 50 Faculty Senates to pass
resolutions denouncing the educational gag orders passed by state
legislatures. In 2022 alone 137 bills to restrict education on topics like
race, American history, gender and LGBTQ+ identity were introduced in 36
states.*



*We are working on a comprehensive book of articles and interviews
documenting the “Culture Wars” fightback, edited by Ellen Schrecker, **Valerie
Johnson (Political Science, DePaul University), and Jennifer Ruth (Film
Studies, Portland State University).*



*In partnership with the Zinn Education Project, we have reached out to
K-12 educators nationwide, to bring solidarity from the academy to their
local struggles, and we will ramp up that grassroots work this fall.*



*For the third year in a row, in collaboration with *Radical History Review*,
we are mounting a series of historically innovative, politically engaging
sessions at the next American Historical Association meeting in
Philadelphia (January 2023).*



But all of this costs money: we now have a paid organizer, and we need your
support.  Please send $15 (if you’re a grad student), $35 (if you’re
untenured/out in the world) and $60 or more (if tenured) to keep H-PAD in
the fight; here is a link <https://www.historiansforpeace.org/donate/>
 to contribute.


Yours for free speech,


The H-PAD Steering Committee (Marc Becker, Mara Dodge, Rusti Eisenberg, Van
Gosse, Molly Nolan, Jim O’Brien; Margaret Power, Ellen Schrecker, Andor
Skotnes, Kevin Young)
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