[PEN-L:34220] Historians Against the War

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 22, 2003

Contact:
Van Gosse (717) 291-4246
David Montgomery (203) 865-6480

More Than 1,000 Historians Announce National Antiwar Network

Chicago--At a meeting on the evening of Friday, January 3, at the
117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association,
historians from more than forty colleges and universities agreed to
form a new national network, "Historians Against the War."  A
committee was appointed to draft the following statement, which has
been circulated for other historians to sign.

We historians call for a halt to the march towards war against Iraq.
We are deeply concerned about the needless destruction of human life,
the undermining of constitutional government in the U.S., the
egregious curtailment of civil liberties and human rights at home and
abroad, and the obstruction of world peace for the indefinite future.

Since that meeting, more than one thousand historians, from 250
colleges and universities in 47 states, have endorsed the HAW
statement.

Immediate projects for Historians Against the War include creating a
nationwide "virtual speakers bureau" to aid the growing antiwar
movement, providing accurate scholarly rebuttals to the mendacious
historical distortions of the Bush Administration, and reporting on
the growing wave of campus activism.

Participants in the meeting and signers of the statement include many
of the United States' leading historians, from Harvard, Yale, the
University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, the University of
Wisconsin, the University of North Carolina, Stanford, the University
of California at Berkeley, and UCLA.

Professor Emeritus at Yale University, David Montgomery, a spokesman
for Historians Against the War, notes that "What is most noteworthy
to me about the signers of the statement is that they represent a
very broad cross section of political opinion and styles of
historical writing. Long-time activists, people who have done little
for decades, and many others who have never been involved can be
found among the signers."

A complete list of signers of the Historians Against the War
statement is available at
<http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/haw>.

(Coverage of the founding meeting is available on the History New
Network website at <http://hnn.us/articles/1200.html>).
--
Yoshie

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