<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><i><br></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Note: </b>Historians<b> </b>Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov have produced a 64,000-word, illustrated and extensively documented essay on
<a href="http://peacehistory-usfp.org/wot." target="_blank">“Afghanistan, Iraq, and the ‘War on Terror'”</a> as an addition to the <a href="http://peacehistory-usfp.org/" target="_blank">United States Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide 2022</a>, a website co-sponsored by the Peace History Society and Historians for Peace and Democracy. <i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><b>Links to Recent Articles of Interest</b></font><i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><i><br></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><i>
</i></b></span><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/08/19/on-russian-invasion-us-intel-got-it-right-but-policymakers-stumbled" target="_blank"><b>"On Russian Invasion, US Intel Got It Right - But Policymakers Stumbled"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>George Beebe and Anatol Lieven,</b> <i>Responsible Statecraft, </i>posted August 19</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>Faults US pre-war policy for failing to make a serious attempt to avert the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Anatol Lieven is a historian of Russia and its neighbors and George Beebe is a former longtime CIA analyst, and both are active with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft</i><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://discover.hubpages.com/education/Why-Learning-the-History-of-Slavery-in-America-Doesnt-Have-to-Be-Depressing" target="_blank"><b>"Why Learning the History of Slavery in America Doesn't Need to Be Depressing"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>Stephanie Coontz, </b><i>HubPages, </i>posted August 18</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>"When we “whitewash” the past, we not only deny wrongs that still need to
be righted, but we fail to honor the men and women --black, brown, and
white -- whose struggles for justice and equality prove beyond doubt
that no group of Americans is “irredeemably sexist and racist.” The author is a professor emerita of history at Evergreen State College.</i><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2022/08/committed-holocausts-palestinians.html"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>"No, Israel Hasn't Committed 50 Holocausts Against Palestinians or Even One; But It Has Committed Apartheid"</b></span></a></div><div><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2022/08/committed-holocausts-palestinians.html"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>Juan Cole, </b>Informed Comment blog, posted August 18<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>The author teaches Middle East history at the University of Michigan.</i><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/08/15/afghanistan-a-year-later-will-over-the-horizon-normalize-endless-war" target="_blank"><b>"Afghanistan a Year Later: Will 'Over the Horizon' Normalize Endless War"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>Mary Dudziak, </b><i>Responsible Statecraft, </i>posted August 15</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>"The idea of “over the
horizon” war [through drone warfare, without American "boots on the ground"] is a signal to Americans that war happens someplace else.
It won’t hurt them. It doesn’t need to bother them." The author teaches in the law school of Emory University and is a past president of the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).</i><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://lithub.com/from-poison-control-statutes-to-pope-pius-ix-the-history-of-anti-abortion-law" target="_blank"><b>"From Poison Control Statutes to Pope Pius IX: The History of Anti-Abortion Law"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>Elisabeth Griffith, </b><i>Literary Hub, </i>posted August 10</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>An adapted excerpt from the author's newly published </i>Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 <i>(Pegasus Books)</i>. <i>She also wrote a biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and has taught history at the college and high school levels.</i><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span>
</div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://gregmitchell.substack.com/p/truman-failed-to-pause-and-the-nagasaki" target="_blank"><b>"Truman Failed to Pause -- and the Nagasaki War Crime Followed"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>Greg Mitchell, </b>Substack, posted August 9</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>On the decision to go ahead with the Nagasaki bombing three days after the destruction of Hiroshima had established the power of the atomic bomb</i>. <i>Among the author's books is </i>The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb <i>(New Press, 2020)</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2022-08-08/77th-anniversary-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-revisiting" target="_blank"><b>"77th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings: Revisiting the Record"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By the <b>National Security Archive, </b>posted August 8</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>Documents from 1945 concerning the effects of the atomic bombings, especiallyh radiation sickness, with an introductory essay by William Burr.</i><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://rightingamerica.net/hijacking-history-an-interview-with-kathleen-wellman" target="_blank"><b><i>"Hijacking History: </i>An Interview with Kalhleen Wellman"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>William Trollinger, </b><i>Righting America, </i>posted August 4</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>Kathleen Wellman teaches history at Southern Methodist University and is the author of </i>Hijacking America: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters <i>(Oxford U. Press, 2021).</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://www.russiapost.info/society/death_of_liberal_russia_p1" target="_blank"><b><i>"The Strange Death of Liberal Russia - Part I"</i></b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>Paul Robinson, </b><i>Russia.Post, </i>posted August 4</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>The first of a three-part historical analysis of Russian liberalism, which "has always had a narrow social base and has gravitated toward Westernism." The author teaches in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.</i><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://archive.ph/3uSzY" target="_blank"><b>"Does Anyone Still Understand the Security Dilemma?"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>Stephen M. Walt, </b><i>Foreign Policy, </i>posted July 26</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>Applies to the Ukraine war the concept of the "security dilemma," which "describes how the actions that one state takes to
make itself more secure ... tend to make other states less secure and
lead them to respond in kind." The author teaches international relations at Harvard University.<br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://jacobin.com/2022/07/ukraine-russia-war-putin-socialism-resistance" target="_blank"><b>Yes "I'm a Ukrainian Socialist. Here's Why I Resist the Russian Invasion"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>Taras Bilous, </b><i>Jacobin, </i>posted July 26</span></div><div>
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>"Although Washington has done a lot to undermine international law (we,
like socialists anywhere in the world, will never forget the criminal
invasion of Iraq, for instance), by supporting Ukrainian resistance to
the invasion they are doing the right thing." The author is a historian and editor of </i>Commons: Journal of Social Criticism.
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/22/opinion/neutralism-returns-gets-more-powerful" target="_blank"><b>"Neutralism Returns--and Gets More Powerful"</b></a><i><br></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>Stephen Kinzer, </b><i>Boston Globe, </i>posted July 22</span></div><div>
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i><span class="gmail-html-render">"War in Ukraine has galvanized the US-led NATO.
It has also, however, led a growing number of countries to conclude
that they have no stake in a European conflict or a confrontation with
Russia." The author is a longtime journalist and now a Senior Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs.</span></i></span>
</div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><a href="https://againstthecurrent.org/atc219/a-giant-rescued-from-oblivion" target="_blank"><b>"A Giant Rescued from Oblivion"</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">By <b>John Woodford, </b><i>Against the Current, </i>July-August issue</span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>A lengthy review essay of the second volume of historian Jeff Perry's monumental biography of the West Indian-American socialist and internationalist Hubert Harrison (1883-1927).</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i>Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg, Roger Peace, and an anonymous reader for flagging some of the articles included in the above list. Suggestions can be sent to <a href="mailto:jimobrien48@gmail.com">jimobrien48@gmail.com</a>.</i><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><i><br></i></span>
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