{"id":2425,"date":"2010-04-13T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T18:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2010-04-13T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T18:50:06","slug":"staughton-lynd-on-howard-zinn-and-other-recent-articles-from-haw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2010\/04\/staughton-lynd-on-howard-zinn-and-other-recent-articles-from-haw\/","title":{"rendered":"Staughton Lynd on Howard Zinn and other recent articles from HAW"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Remembering Howard Zinn” session April 9, co-sponsored by HAW and the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, was well attended and warm-spirited. An account appears on the Zinn Education Project’s web site, at http:\/\/www.zinnedproject.org\/posts\/6187<\/a>. The full text of Staughton Lynd’s featured speech at the session is also on the Zinn Education Project site and is included in the list below.<\/p>\n

Links to Recent Articles of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Howard Zinn, Historian”<\/a>
\nBy Staughton Lynd (talk given in the “Remembering Howard Zinn” OAH session), posted April 12<\/p>\n

“Left & Right: Prospects for Peace”<\/a>
\nSymposium in The American Conservative, May 1 issue, posted April 12
\nOn the prospects for unity of progressives and conservatives opposed to US wars<\/p>\n

Interview with Andrew Bacevich on “Bill Moyers Journal”<\/a>
\nTranscript of interview, mainly on Afghanistan, conducted April 9
\nAndrew Bacevich teaches history and international relations at Boston University<\/p>\n

“Two, Three, Many Afghanistans”<\/a>
\nBy Michael Klare, The Nation, April 26 issue, posted April 7<\/p>\n

“Micro-Geography Matters in Jerusalem”<\/a>
\nBy Dror Wahrman, History News Network, posted April 5
\nThe author teaches history at Indiana University Bloomington<\/p>\n

“Legitimation Crisis in Afghanistan”
\n<\/a>By William R. Polk, The Nation, April 19 issue, posted April 1<\/p>\n

“Can Anyone Pacify the World’s Number One Narco-State? The Opium Wars in Afghanistan”<\/a>
\nBy Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch.com, posted March 30
\nThe author teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n

“The Texas State Board of Education and History Standards: A Teacher’s Perspective”<\/a>
\nBy Ron Briley, History News Network, posted March 29
\nThe author is a longtime history teacher, and currently assistant headmaster, at the Sandia Preparatory School<\/p>\n

“Lying About Nuclear Weapons”<\/a>
\nBy Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network, posted March 29
\nThe author teaches history at SUNY Albany<\/p>\n

“The ‘Long War’ Quagmire<\/a>
\nBy Tom Hayden, Los Angeles Times, posted March 28<\/p>\n

Suggestions for these (more or less) biweekly lists can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com. Thanks to Miriam Jackson and Larry Wittner for sending suggestions for this week’s list, along with Carolyn (Rusti) Eisenberg from the HAW working group for this project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “Remembering Howard Zinn” session April 9, co-sponsored by HAW and the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, was well attended and warm-spirited. An account appears on the Zinn Education Project’s web site, at http:\/\/www.zinnedproject.org\/posts\/6187. The full text of Staughton Lynd’s featured speech at the session […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[8036,3407],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies","tag-anti","tag-historians-against-the-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}