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    Newsletter #13,<span></span></span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Mistral;color:rgb(192,0,0)">RHR and
  H-PAD at 2023 AHA Annual Meeting<span></span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>For
  the fifth time, Radical History Review, an affiliate organization of the
  American Historical Association, with the support of Historians for Peace and
  Democracy, held sessions at an AHA Annual Meeting. The 2023 meeting occurred
  in Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2023, at which we held 10 sessions:<span></span></span></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>1.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">     
  </span><span>“Peace with Honor”: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of
  the Paris Peace Accords<span></span></span></p>
  <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>2.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">     
  </span><span>Fighting the Culture War Attack on History, Strategies
  & Experiences<span></span></span></p>
  <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>3.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">     
  </span><span>Unions in Higher Education: Historical & Contemporary
  Realities<span></span></span></p>
  <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>4.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">     
  </span><span>Empire of Sanctions<span></span></span></p>
  <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>5.<span>  
  </span><span>  </span><span> </span>The “Ed Scare”: The Current Conservative
  Panic over the Academy and Its Antecedents <span></span></span></p>
  <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>6.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">     
  </span><span>Radical Historians, Intellectuals, & Activists: Our
  Roles in the Current Situations <span></span></span></p>
  <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>7.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">     
  </span><span>Teaching the Truth in Secondary Schools during Contentious
  Times <span></span></span></p>
  <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>8.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">     
  </span><span>Topics in South African Cultural and Political History <span></span></span></p>
  <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>9.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">     
  </span><span>The Failed War on Terrorism: Afghanistan and Iraq <span></span></span></p>
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  <span> </span></span><span>International Solidarity with Palestinians –
  Palestinian Internationalist Solidarities.<span></span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span>Our sessions were well received, with an
  estimated total of 320 to 360 attending</span></b><span>; two sessions attracted more than 60 people,
  most of the rest attracted between 30 and 40. The topics taken up by our
  sessions were diverse.<span>  </span>Three addressed
  education, including one on education labor, and one on teaching secondary
  school.<span>  </span>Five or 50% of our sessions
  focused on international issues or foreign policy. And, reflecting current H-PAD
  priorities, half of our session put strong emphasis on the culture wars.<span></span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span>For the first time this year, we recorded most
  of our sessions</span></b><span> on audio and video, including sessions 1-5, 9,
  and 10.<span>  </span>At this point, a video
  recording is only available for session 10, but audio recordings are
  available for the others.<span>  </span><b>To download these recordings go to </b></span><span><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1bBC5af2Q9RgryicYERPGsEsKdnT3IFBq" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span>here</span></b></a></span><b><span>.<span>  </span><span></span></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span>As in 2020, all our sessions were held in the
  same room</span></b><span>,
  so we thereby pretty much became our space for the duration of the
  conference. We set up a literature and information table for both RHR and
  H-PAD that was available throughout much of the conference in the back of the
  room. We distributed a large amount of literature for both organizations
  there and had many useful conversations<span></span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span>We plan to again sponsor sessions at the next
  AHA meeting</span></b><span>
  in San Francisco, January 4-8.<span>  </span>If you
  would like to organize a session for this conference, or if you would like to
  otherwise help our, please be in contact.<span></span></span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";text-align:center" align="center"><i><span>[For a full
  report of RHR/H-PAD at AHA2023 </span></i><span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YTxMnPuJzKjxzDkCMdiiDsY06jw7tWua/edit" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><i><span>go here</span></i></a></span><i><span>]<span></span></span></i></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Mistral;color:rgb(192,0,0)">Update: Historians on Call<span></span></span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>H-PAD, in cooperation with the Zinn
  Historical Project (ZHL), is organizing historians into a network called
  Historians on Call, to directly support educators in the schools who are under
  attack from right-wing forces over their teaching and curriculums. Go <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/historians-on-call/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">here</a> for an
  update on ZHL’s website.<span>  </span>And join us!<span></span></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:106%;font-family:Mistral;color:rgb(192,0,0)">Update:
  H-PAD Culture Wars Against Education Archive<span></span></span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The multifaceted culture wars against education constitute
  attacks on how history and social studies are taught and written.<span>  </span>H-PAD has compiled this archive of
  materials on the past and present of the culture wars and responses to them,
  which we hope will help teachers and students on all levels educate themselves
  about the current crisis and ways to respond to it. The archive provides a
  variety of resources useful as well for journalists, commentators,
  politicians, and the general public. Here is the </span><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://www.historiansforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/The-Culture-Wars-Against-Education-12-29.pdf" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">link</a> to the archive.<span></span></span></p>
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