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Revisiting Into the Wild

January 22, 2021 by Adam Clulow

by Ben Wright In June 2020, controversial monuments began to come down across America. This time, not only were confederate statues on the menu—those of Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Christopher Columbus and even (in Portland, Oregon) George Washington were as well. Tied to larger protests against police brutality and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, […]

Filed Under: Features, Monthly Features

IHS Climate in Context: Introducing Planet Texas 2050

January 20, 2021 by Adam Clulow

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By Mary Huber As part of IHS Climate in Context, Not Even Past is delighted to introduce a new collaboration with Planet Texas 2050.  Together we’ll publish a series of posts and articles designed to introduce the Planet Texas 2050 project with a particular focus on how historians and archaeologists are contributing to it. In […]

Filed Under: IHS & Public History

“The Eyes of Texas are Upon You: Have You Paid That Poll Tax?”

January 20, 2021 by Adam Clulow

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By Rachel Gunter In the Austin History Center, there is a curious poster that demands the attention of “WOMEN!” in red, all-capital letters. Below this, a pair of eyes peer out beneath furrowed eyebrows warning “The Eyes of Texas are Upon You: Have You Paid That Poll Tax?” At the bottom of the poster is […]

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NEP Author Spotlight – Alejandra Garza

January 13, 2021 by Adam Clulow

The success of Not Even Past is made possible by a remarkable group of faculty and graduate student writers. Not Even Past Author Spotlights are designed to celebrate our most prolific authors by bringing together all of their published content across the site together on a single page. The focus is especially on work published […]

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African-Soviet Encounters: New Histories of Russian Racism and Anti-Racism

January 8, 2021 by Adam Clulow

Questions of race have complicated histories in Russia and the Soviet Union, where a commitment to anti-racist and internationalist ideology often disguised racialization and racial conflict. The strong negative reactions to Black Lives Matter in Russia in 2020 have given these questions new attention and urgency. One factor in this history that is routinely overlooked is […]

Filed Under: Blog

A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

December 16, 2020 by Adam Clulow

by Timothy Vilgiate Centuries before contemporary debates about anthropogenic climate change took shape, early British settlers to New England and Nova Scotia believed that they could “improve” the climate of these otherwise inhospitable regions by placing the land under cultivation. In A Temperate Empire, Anya Zilberstein draws from a rich primary source base to analyze […]

Filed Under: 1400s to 1700s, 1800s, Books, Business/Commerce, Empire, Environment, Periods, Regions, Science/Medicine/Technology, Topics, Transnational, United States

NEP Author Spotlight – Alina Scott

December 16, 2020 by Adam Clulow

The success of Not Even Past is made possible by a remarkable group of faculty and graduate student writers. Not Even Past Author Spotlights are designed to celebrate our most prolific authors by bringing together all of their published content across the site together on a single page. The focus is especially on work published […]

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IHS Climate in Context – Climate by Proxy

December 15, 2020 by Adam Clulow

by Melissa Charenko In 1998, Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes published a graph in a top scientific journal. The pattern shown by the graph has become a leading example of a “hockey stick graph.” The graph shows that, since the year 1000, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere slowly cooled. But, around 1900, temperatures […]

Filed Under: IHS & Public History

IHS Workshop: “Royal Power and a Piece of Bread: Sufi Discipleship and Dargah Worship in the Maratha Empire” by Rupali Warke, University of Texas at Austin

December 15, 2020 by Adam Clulow

In 1707, after the death of the last great Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, the power and authority of the Mughals who ruled over the greater part of South Asia for about two hundred years started to disintegrate. The weakening of the imperial center altered the socio-political conditions, which led to the rise of strong regional powers […]

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IHS Climate in Context – “From Smog to Climate Change?: The Precarious Precedents for Curbing Greenhouse Gases in the U.S. and Mexico” by Christopher Sellers, Stony Brook University

December 11, 2020 by Adam Clulow

Monday November 23, 2020 • Zoom Webinar I plan to present a draft article that looks at the roots and recent realities of greenhouse gas regulation in the U.S. versus Mexico. Comparing the control of environmental toxics (and other pollutants) instituted over 1970s in the United States with that of the 1990s in Mexico, the […]

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