Historians Against the War
Statement by Historians Against the War
April 15, 2009
As historically minded activists, scholars, students, and teachers, we stand opposed to wars of aggression, military occupations of foreign lands, and imperial efforts by the United States and other powerful nations to dominate the internal life of other countries....
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Background: Historians Against the War (HAW) was formed at the January 2003 American Historical Association meeting in response to the Bush administration's threats against Iraq. Over 2200 historians signed a hastily circulated petition against the impending invasion. In September of that year, six months after the invasion, HAW decided to become an ongoing organization calling for an end to the occupation and a restoration of civil liberties in the U.S. itself. Since that time, HAW collected more than 2600 signatures on its revised statement; stimulated dozens of campus teach-ins; held two national conferences (2006 in Austin and 2008 in Atlanta); and gained passage by the American Historical Association of the first anti-war resolution in the AHA's history. In the spring of 2009, HAW voted to broaden the organization's self-definition by adopting a new mission statement.
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HAW at the AHA
New York,
January 2-5, 2009
Now available: The Bush - Cheney Years, presentations from the Historians Against the War Roundtable
HAW panel at the AHA
New!
- New Publication! The Bush - Cheney Years, A Historians Against the War Roundtable at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 3, 2009, New York, NY, with contributions by Alice Kessler - Harris (Columbia University), David Montgomery (Yale University), Vijay Prashad (Trinity College), Ellen Schrecker (Yeshiva University), Barbara Weinstein (New York University).
- Carl Mirra, Soldiers and Citizens: An Oral History of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the Battlefield to the Pentagon (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
- HAW Steering Committee statement on Gaza (January 2009)
- HAW at the AHA (New York, January 2-5, 2009)
- HAW and Afghanistan (October 2008)