Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday 5 January 2015


AHA - Day 3: Sunday January 4

The 2015 AHA Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything

by Rick Shenkman
If you want to know what's happening at the AHA this year, this is the place.

AHA Decides NOT to Debate Anti-Israel Resolutions

by Rick Shenkman
At the annual Business Meeting the members voted overwhelmingly not to suspend the rules to allow debate on two resolutions that had been submitted after the requisite deadline.

What Happened to the Democratic Party? They Killed Santa Claus. (Video)

by Rick Perlstein
How the Democrats turned right and lost America.

Why We Oppose the Anti-Israel Resolutions

by Alliance for Academic Freedom
The resolutions, presented at the Business Meeting of the American Historical Association, are biased and needlessly divisive.

Whose History of the Vietnam War Will Prevail?

With a substantial appropriation from Congress, the Pentagon has launched a self-serving multi-year commemoration of the war in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. A movement is growing of those who were active against the war, as well as of friends who came after, to insure the Pentagon’s misleading version of Vietnam is effectively challenged.

What Happened to Second Wave Feminism? (Video)

by Alice Kessler-Harris
Women won the battle, but lost the war, strengthening capitalism and hierarchy.

Why in the 1930s Did the U.S. Move Left and in the 1970s Move Right?

by Meg Jacobs
Conservatism survived Watergate, but liberalism struggled.

Can You Have a Liberalism without Labor? (Video)

by Nelson Lichtenstein
We may be about to find out.