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</font><div><b><br></b></div><div><a href="https://archive.ph/n5Z2i" target="_blank"><b>"The Complicity of the Textbooks"</b></a></div><div>By <b>Eric Foner, </b><i>New York Review of Books, </i>September 22 issue</div><div><i>An extensive review essay on Donald Yacavone's new book </i>Teaching White Supremacy, <i>an account of how US history textbooks, from the early twentieth century to the 1880s, treated issues of slavery, Reconstruction, and racial issues generally. The reviewer teaches US history at Columbia University.</i><br></div><div><b></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><a href="https://tomdispatch.com/the-trump-supreme-court-is-nothing-new" target="_blank"><b>"The Trump Supreme Court Is Nothing New"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Steve Fraser, </b>TomDispatch.com, posted September 6</div><div><i>Argues that the liberal rulings of the "Warren Court," were an exception to an otherwise consistent history in which the Court's "basic orientation" was "to side
with propertied interests, not the unpropertied; slave-owners, not
slaves; and industrialists and financiers rather than with those who
worked for and depended on them." The author is an editor and historian who has written widely on class conflict in US history.
</i></div><div><br></div><div></div><div><a href="https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/183849" target="_blank"><b>"UN Report Highlights Ongoing Racism in US"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Alan J. Singer, </b>History News Network, posted September 4</div><div><i>A short summary of the section concerning the United States in the August 30 report by the
<i>United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. <br></i></i><div><i>The author is a historian who teaches in the Hofstra University Department of Teaching, Learning, and Technology"</i></div></div><div><i><b><br></b></i></div><div><a href="https://portside.org/2022-09-01/green-tide-rising-latin-america" target="_blank"><b>"Green Tide Rising in Latin America"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Laura Carlson, </b><i>Portside, </i>posted September 1</div><div><i>On the history and background of feminist organizing that has led to the legalization of abortion in Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia. The author is a writer and documentary filmmaker who is a dual Mexican-US citizen and lives in Mexico City.</i><br></div><div><b></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><a href="https://archive.ph/8UFxr" target="_blank"><b>"Biden Called Trumpism 'Semi-Fascism.' The Term Makes Sense, Historically"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Federico Finchelstein, </b><i>Washington Post, </i>posted September 1</div><div><i>
"Over the past century, fascism has evolved, as leaders have reformulated
its look. While explicit fascism faded from power after World War II,
its illiberal ideas survived, often intertwined with various strands of
populism." The author teaches history at the New School and is the author of </i>A Brief History of Fascist Lies <i>(U. of California Press, 2020).</i><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/167612/quincy-institute-survive-ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank"><b>"Can the Quincy Institute Survive Putin's War?"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Blaise Malley, </b><i>The New Republic, </i>posted September 1<i><br></i></div><div><i>The headline is overblown, but the article provides an analysis of tensions within the left-right coalition that has maintained a sometimes fragile unity around a belief in the need for greater restraint in US foreign policy.<br></i></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/08/31/dod-plan-to-mitigate-civilian-harm-merely-humanizes-endless-war" target="_blank"><b>"'Sweeping' DOD Plan to Mitigate Civilian Harm Merely Humanizes Endless War"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By<b> Samuel Moyn, </b><i>Responsible Statecraft, </i>posted August 31</div><div><i>"
Abetted by critical outsiders and sympathetic insiders who decry the
brutality rather than existence of wars, humanizing war reflects ethical
progress in the fighting of American war, while entrenching its
permanence." The author teaches law and history at Yale University. His books include </i>Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War <i>(Macmillan, 2021).</i><br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2022/08/withdrawal-afghanistan-fundamentalists.html" target="_blank"><b>"That
Time Gorbachev Announced Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan and US Went
On Building Up Muslim Fundamentalists There Anyway, Leading to 9/11"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Juan Cole, </b>Informed Comment blog, posted August 31</div><div><i>Argues that from the time of his accession to office in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev made clear his intention of ending the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan but that US officials refused to believe him and stepped up their military aid to the fundamentalist rebels. The author teaches Middle East history at the University of Michigan.</i><br></div><div><b></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><a href="https://archive.ph/jmMuX"><b>"The South African Solution Will Not Work in Palestine"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Abba Solomon, </b><i>Mondoweiss, </i>posted August 30</div><div><i>A review essay on the book </i>Anti-Colonial Resistance in South Africa and Israel/Palestine (Routledge, 2022) <i>by Ran Greenstein, a South African-Israeli sociologist whose book traces and compares the histories of anti-colonial resistance in the two areas. <font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">"<em>T</em><em style="font-style:italic;border:0px none rgba(0,0,0,0.74);margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">he
Israel/Palestine system meets the definition of apartheid in
international law but presents different challenges for the campaign
against it than was the case for the anti-apartheid movement in South
Africa.</em>"</span></font></i><br></div><br><div><b></b></div><div></div><div><a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/opinion/what-texas-1836-project-leaves-out" target="_blank"><b>"What the 1836 Project Leaves Out in Its Version of Texas History"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Leah LaGrone and Michael Phillips, </b><i>Texas Monthly, </i>posted August 25</div><div><i>An extensive critique of the Texas state commission (chaired by the president of the Heritage Foundation) appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to prepare an official history of the state. Leah LaGrone teaches history at Weber State University and Michael Phillips is a senior research fellow at Southern Methodist University.</i><br></div><div><b></b></div><div><b></b></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/08/25/six-months-after-russian-invasion-a-bloody-stalemate-a-struggle-for-peace" target="_blank"><b>"Six Months after Russian Invasion, a Bloody Stalemate, a Struggle for Peace"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Anatol Lieven, </b><i>Responsible Statecraft, </i>posted August 25 <br></div><div><i>Argues that neither side can win a complete victory and that all sides, including Ukraine's Western allies, face harm from a continuation of the war. "The time to begin negotiations for peace is now, not after months or
years in which tens of thousands more people have died and Ukraine has
suffered still greater harm." <i>The author is a historian who has written several books on Russia and its
neighbors. </i>
</i></div><div></div><div><br></div><div></div><div><a href="https://jacobin.com/2022/08/zinn-vietnam-war-antiwar-prisoners-trip" target="_blank"><b>"Howard Zinn Carried Out an Act of Radical Diplomacy in the Middle of the Vietnam War"</b></a></div><div></div><div>By <b>Michael Konciewicz, </b><i>Jacobin, </i>posted August 24</div><div><i>An appreciation of the late historian Howard Zinn on the 100th anniversary of his birth, featuring his trip to North Vietnam in February 1968 to facilitate the release of three captured American pilots. The author is a research scholar at the Tamiment Library, New York University, which has a collection of Zinn's notebooks.</i><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg and an anonymous reader for suggesting some of the articles included in the above list, and to Roger Peace for very helpful comments on articles being considered for the list. Suggestions can be sent to <a href="mailto:jimobrien48@gmail.com">jimobrien48@gmail.com</a>.</i><br></div><div><i></i></div></div>
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