From the Editors: It’s been a remarkable few years for Monica Muñoz Martinez, an award-winning author, teacher, and public historian based in the History department at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2021, Dr. Martinez’s groundbreaking work was recognized when she became a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. The Foundation praised her work “bringing to light […]
Hate and Hope in the Upside Down World
by Anne M. Martínez, American Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands A few years ago we had a speaker at an American Studies event here in Groningen who claimed that the field of American Studies and America itself, revolved around ideas of democracy and equality until the 1980s, when ethnic studies became more widespread, and […]
Three-year-olds on the world stage
When I was very small, I lived six blocks from the Santa Fe Opera. Our home was in the Tesuque Village, which is really just a country road that runs alongside the Tesuque Creek just north of Santa Fe, with twenty tiny cul-de-sacs stretching up into the alluvial crannies of the southern Rockies. There were […]
US Survey Course: Mexico-US Interactions and Hispanic America
During the summer of 2016, we will be bringing together our previously published articles, book reviews, and podcasts on key themes and periods in the history of the USA. Each grouping is designed to correspond to the core areas of the US History Survey Courses taken by undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mexico-US Interactions
New Books in Women’s History
Boxing Shadows, by W.K. Stratton with Anissa “The Assassin” Zamarron (2009)
Borderlands Business: Conflict and Cooperation on the US-Mexico Border
Resources for Teaching Women’s History
From the editors: To mark Women’s History Month, we collected a range of Not Even Past articles and reviews and assembled them here, on a single page devoted to resources on women’s history. We’ve organized our content around seven topics. The articles grouped under each topic heading highlight groundbreaking research. However, they are also intended […]
IHS Discussion: They Were There: Martin Luther King’s Visit to UT Austin in 1962
This month, exactly 61 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. visited UT to speak out against racism and segregation. We will interview former UT students who were here back then, when they worked for The Daily Texan, to discuss Dr. King’s visit and that historical moment in the struggle for integration, on campus, in businesses […]