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Environmental Humanities: Five Non-History Books I Recommend from Comps

September 8, 2022

By Jesse Ritner For graduate students in History, comprehensive exams (also known as orals, qualifying exams, or comps) are a crucial milestone on the way to finishing the Ph.D. I took my comprehensive exams in the Fall of 2020, defending about five weeks after the first COVID-19 isolation orders. Yet even without a pandemic, reading […]

Not Even Past – looking back at 2021-22

September 6, 2022

It’s been another busy year for Not Even Past with more than 130 articles published across the academic year. To celebrate all this incredible academic content we have compiled everything in one page below. Not Even Past‘s reach also continues to grow, and we just broke a million page views over the past 12 months, […]

Year in Review – Academic year 2021-2022

May 10, 2022

Year in Review - Fall 2021/Spring 2022

It’s been another busy year for Not Even Past with more than 130 articles published across the academic year. To celebrate all this incredible academic content we have compiled everything in one page below. Not Even Past‘s reach also continues to grow, and we just broke a million page views over the past 12 months, […]

Re-imagining Public History: A Tribute to Joan Neuberger

May 10, 2022

by the Editor of Not Even Past, Adam Clulow As Not Even Past winds down for another academic year, we want to take a moment to celebrate the remarkable contribution of Dr. Joan Neuberger, our Founding Editor, who will be retiring from the University of Texas this summer. Joan guided the magazine for almost a […]

Resources for Teaching Women’s History

March 22, 2022

From the editors: To mark Women’s History Month in 2022, 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. In 2023, we updated our page to feature even more content, including recently-published NEP articles and reviews. We’ve organized our […]

Institute for Historical Studies, Race and Caste Research theme, 2021-22

August 25, 2021

Not Even Past is delighted to collaborate with the Institute for Historical Studies and its innovative Race and Caste research theme in 2021-2022. Under the leadership of a new Director Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, the Institute’s program this year centers on the work of nine junior and advanced graduate […]

Bears Ears National Monument

July 28, 2021

Bears Ears National Monument

by Jesse Ritner On December 4, 2017, former President Donald Trump slashed the size of Bears Ears National Monument by 85%. In a further damaging move, he reduced its sibling monument, Grand Escalante-Staircase National Monument, by another 50%. It was the first time in history any National Monument was reduced in size. In the coming […]

Climate in Context Conference Report

July 6, 2021

Climate in Context Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Conference Report

By Raymond Hyser The Climate in Context Conference took place on April 22 & 23, 2021. To view recordings of sessions, visit our virtual conference page. Session I: Emerging Perspectives: A Graduate Student Roundtable The first panel of the conference was a roundtable composed of five graduate students from the University of Texas at Austin’s […]

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Virtual Conference

May 26, 2021

April 22-23, 2021Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin As the culmination of a year-long series of events, this conference brought together diverse scholars whose work grapples with the challenges that climate change presents to the discipline of history. Participants addressed precedents for this “unprecedented” crisis by uncovering and analyzing the historical roots and analogues of […]

Introducing the Material History Workshop

May 17, 2021

By Atar David & Raymond Hyser Last summer, as the global pandemic threatened to push yet another academic year into the Zoomiverse (a threat that soon became a reality), it became clear that we all needed to put on hold our standard conceptions of graduate school. While online classes became the new normal and access […]

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