[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 3/29/23: Vietnam documentary; links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

* Note: **The 80-minute PBS documentary The Movement and the Madman, which
premiered last night (March 28) showing the influence of the Vietnam
antiwar movement on Nixon's Vietnam policy, is available via livestream
<https://www.pbs.org/video/the-movement-and-the-madman-qppgsr/> through
April 27. Also, Vietnam War historian Chris Appy is interviewed on Jon
Wiener's podcast
<https://redcircle.com/show/f42ee235-8574-4ed7-902e-0176c818cc37/ep/03bd06cd-c31f-4e59-b5ad-3c5b6e622aa6>
about the events depicted in the documentary.*

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"A Regional Reign of Terror" <https://archive.ph/SyiZa>*
By* Eric Foner, **New York Review of Books, *April 6 issue
*A vivid review essay on Margaret Burnham's history of racial violence in
the long decades that followed Reconstruction, *By Hands Now Known: Jim
Crow's Legal Executioners* (Norton, 2022). The author is a professor
emeritus of history at Columbia University. *

*"For Putin, Iraq War Marked a Turning Point in US-Russia Relations"
<https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/03/23/for-putin-iraq-war-marked-a-turning-point-in-us-russia-relations>*
By *Branco Marcetic, **Responsible Statecraft, *posted March 23
*Uses classified US diplomatic cables exposed by Wikileaks to argue that
Putin "had spent significant political capital on an attempt at
rapprochement with George W. Bush’s administration," but the Iraq invasion
chilled relations greatly. The author is a staff writer for *Jacobin
* magazine.*

*"Law, Medicine, Women's Authority, and the History of Troubled Births"
<https://nursingclio.org/2023/03/22/law-medicine-womens-authority-and-the-history-of-troubled-births-review-of-proving-pregnancy>*
By *Lara Friedenfelds, **Nursing Clio, *posted March 22
A review essay on Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in
Nineteenth-Century America *by* *Felicity Turner* *(U. of North Carolina
Press, 2022)*.
* The author is a historian of women's health, reproduction and parenting,
with a PhD in the history of science from Harvard University.*

*"Censoring History Education Goes Hand in Hand with Democratic
Backsliding" <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185267>*
By *Julia Boechat Machado and Ruben Zeeman, *History New Network, posted
March 19
*Finds a pattern in India under Modi, Brazil under former president
Bolsonaro, and the Philippines** under Marcos Jr., with recent Florida
developments as a warning signal. Julia Boechat Machado is a PhD candidate
in comparative history at the Central European University in Vienna and
Ruben Zeeman is the co-editor of the Network of Concerned Historians
<http://concernedhistorians.org/content/home.html>.*

*"Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy: The Flawed Logic That Produced the
War Is Alive and Well"* <https://archive.ph/KCGAW>
By *Stephen Wertheim, **Foreign Affairs, *posted March 17
*Traces the Iraq invasion to a determination, advanced prominently in the
1990s and still a consensus in policymaking circles, that the US must be
unchallenged in world affairs.* *The author **is a historian who wrote
*Tomorrow,
the World: The Birth of U.S.Global Supremacy *(Harvard University Press,
2020).*

*"Down and Out at the AHA"* <https://archive.ph/9PRl8>
By *Jacob  Bruggeman, **Chronicle of Higher Education, *posted March 10

*Notes on January's annual convention of the American Historical *
*Association against the background of a declining job market in academic
history. The author is a PhD candidate in history at Johns Hopkins
University.*

*"Reject the Left-Right Alliance Against Ukraine"
<https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/reject-the-left-right-alliance-against-ukraine>*
By *Michael Kazin, **Dissent, *posted March 7
*" If American leftists take seriously their commitment to self-rule and
loathing of foreign aggression, they should shed their ambivalence about
supporting Ukraine." The author teaches history at Georgetown University
and is co-editor of *Dissent* magazine.*

*"The Comstock Law at 150: A Highly Relevant Cautionary Tale for Today"*
<https://thehill.com/opinion/education/3882873-the-comstock-law-at-150-a-highly-relevant-cautionary-tale-for-today>
By* Jonathan Friedman and Amy Werbel, **The Hill, *posted March 3
*On the 1873 anti-"obscenity" law under whose reign "millions of books,
newspapers, magazines, prints, photographs and circulars were burned under
court order." Jonathan Friedman is on the staff of PEN America; Amy Werbel
is the author of* Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American
Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock
*(Columbia University Press, 2018).*

*"We Shouldn't Need an Earthquake to Know Sanctions Don't Work"*
<https://inthesetimes.com/article/earthquake-sanctions-syria-turkey-2>
*By Phyllis Bennis, **In These Times, *posted March 1

*"Sanctions are an instrument of war, not an alternative to it." Cites
examples from recent history to argue that economic sanctions such as those
on Syria punish the poor in the targeted nations without harming the
rulers. The author is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies.*

*"The Arctic Is the Next Frontier in the New Cold War"
<https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/28/arctic-new-cold-war-us-russia-china>*
*By Renate Bridenthal, **Geopoliticaleconomy, *posted February 28
*A nuanced survey of conflicting interests in the Arctic Ocean as it
expands with global warming. "Its warming is turning up the geopolitical
heat in the polar region, bringing to mind an old adage: “What happens in
the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic." The author is a professor emeritus
of history at Brooklyn College.*

*"The Far Right in Ukraine" <https://commons.com.ua/en/far-right-ukraine>*
Interview of *Taras Bilous *by *Stephen R. Shalom, **Commons, *posted
February 16
*A wide-ranging interview analyzing the sometimes exaggerated extent of
popular support and political power for extreme-right groups in
Ukraine.Taras Bilous is a Ukrainian historian and an editor of *Commons:
Journal of Social Criticism* and currently serving in the Ukrainian army.
Stephen R. Shalom is an editor of *New Politics
* magazine. *

*Thanks to Mara Dodge, 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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