[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 7/7/23: Culture War Archives; webinar video; links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Note: *H-PAD announces an extensively updated version of its Culture Wars
Archive <https://www.historiansforpeace.org/culture-wars-against-education>,
coordinated by Molly Nolan. Organized topically, It consists of around two
hundred articles and statements from the past few years' of right-wing
attacks on education - and resistance to the attacks.

*Another Note:* A June 26 webinar on "Shifting Power Dynamics: Ukraine,
Russia, and U.S.-China Relations in a Multipolar World,"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICajTWZi6_U> sponsored by Massachusetts
Peace Action and other groups and featuring Michael Klare, Helena Cobban,
and Joseph Camilleri, is now available on YouTube.


*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Caution: Children at Work. The Return of Child Labor Is the Latest Sign
of American Decline"* <https://tomdispatch.com/caution-children-at-work>
By *Steve Fraser, **TomDispatch, *posted July 6
*On the recent loosening of child labor laws, with historical background on
child labor in the US and the long fight to end it that culminated in the
New Deal of the 1930s. The author is an editor whose own books include *Mongrel
Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American
History *(Verso Press, 2019).*

*"Cormac McCarthy's Unforgiving Parables of American Empire"
<https://archive.ph/j6sOP>*
By *Greg Grandin, **The Nation, *posted June 21
*On the late Western novelist Cormac McCarthy, who "rubbed away the veneer
of Manifest Destiny, revealing US nationalism and empire to be nothing but
the right of conquest updated for the democratic age." * *The author
teaches US history at Yale University, and among his books is *The End of
the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
*(Metropolitan
Books, 2019).                         *

*"Daniel Ellsberg and the Courage Contagion"
<https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/daniel-ellsberg-2661570866>*
By *Christian Appy, **Common Dreams, *posted June 20
*"His life and legacy are reminders that individual acts of moral courage
depend on examples set by others, and they have the potential to sparo
more, far into the future." The author teaches history at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst and has written widely on the Vietnam War.*

<https://archive.ph/7tJ6C>
*"The Long War on Black Studies"* <https://archive.ph/7tJ6C>
By *Robin D. G. Kelley, **New York Review of Books, *posted June 17
*"Black Studies has been under attack since its formal inception on college
campuses in the late 1960s, and repression of all knowledge advancing Black
freedom goes back much further." A wide-ranging critique of efforts to
suppress black history. The author teaches history at UCLA and has
published numerous books on black history and culture.*

*"The Tale the West Tells Itself about Ukraine"* <https://archive.ph/iPdsu>
By *Stephen Wertheim, **New York Times, *posted June 16
*Argues that the prevailing Western view of the Ukraine war's origin
(that * *"Russia
took up arms exclusively out of aggressive and imperialistic drives") is an
obstacle to reaching an end to the war. The author is a historian and
foreign policy commentator who wrote *Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S.
Global Supremacy *(Harvard U. Press, 2020).*

*"How a Grad Student Discovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the
U.S."*
<https://www.propublica.org/article/how-grad-student-discovered-largest-us-slave-auction>
By *Jennifer Berry Hawes, **Pro Publica, *posted June 16
*A very readable journalistic story that offers a look at the work of
professional and amateur historians in exploring the nuts and bolts of the
slave trade in the antebellum US. The author is an investigative reporter
with *Pro Publica, *covering the American South. *

*"Peace for Ukraine Courtesy of China? Another Step in Beijing's Rise to
Global Power"* <https://tomdispatch.com/peace-for-ukraine-courtesy-of-china>
By *Alfred McCoy,* TomDispatch, posted June 13
*"All wars do end, usually thanks to a negotiated peace agreement. Consider
that a fundamental historical fact, even if it seems to have been forgotten
in Brussels, Moscow, and above all, Washington, D.C." On China's potential
role in ending the Ukraine War. The author teaches history at the
University of Wisconsin and wrote *To Govern the Globe: World Orders and
Catastrophic Change
* (Haymarket Books, 2021). *

*"A Ceasefire and Armistice in the Russia-Ukraine War Will Take Much Longer
Than We Want"*
<https://worldbeyondwar.org/a-ceasefire-and-armistice-in-the-russia-ukraine-war-will-take-much-longer-than-we-want>
By *Ann Wright, *WorldBeyondWar.org, posted June 13

*Uses historical precedent, notably the Korean and Vietnam wars, to argue
that negotiating an end to the Ukraine war will be a tedious and lengthy
process. The author is a retired Army colonel who also served as a US
diplomat before resigning in protest of the Iraq War.She was a keynote
speaker, along with Alfred McCoy, at a Historians Against the War
conference in 2013.*

*"How Wars Don't End: Ukraine, Russia, and the Lessons of World War I"*
<https://archive.ph/auuJE>
By *Margaret MacMillan, **Foreign Affairs, *posted June 12
*Finds historical parallels between the Ukraine War and World Wars I and
II, especially the former, rife with miscalculations on all sides.The
author is a professor emerita of International History at Oxford
University. Among her books is *The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
*(2013).*

*Thanks to an anonymous reader for flagging some of the above articles and
to Roger Peace for valuable consulting. Suggestions for inclusion in these
occasional mailings can be sent to jimobrien48 at gmail.com
<jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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