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Too Much Inclusion? Museo Casa de la Memoria, Medellín, Colombia

June 1, 2017 by Emily Whalen

By Jimena Perry In 2013, a memory museum opened in Medellín, Department of Antioquia Colombia. Its founding was part of the Victim Assistance Program created by the city’s mayoralty in 2004. Known as one of Colombia’s most violent cities, due mainly to the drug cartel of Medellín led by Pablo Escobar, this urban area suffered […]

Filed Under: 1900s, 2000s, Blog, Food/Drugs, Latin America and the Caribbean, Memory, Museums Tagged With: 20th Century, 20th century history, A Narco History, cartography, colombia, colonial history, FARC, Historical memory, History Museum, History Museums, Latin America, Latin American History

Digital Teaching: Mapping Networks Across Avant-Garde Magazines

May 31, 2017 by Emily Whalen

By Meghan Forbes In “The European Avant-Garde in Print” (REE 325), students explored the unique and vibrant print culture in Central Europe between the two world wars and the social and political context that produced it. I sought to expose students to the networked qualities of magazines that were published in Czech, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, […]

Filed Under: Teaching Tagged With: 1920s, 20th Century, 20th century history, Art, Art History, Avant-garde, Dada, Digital Humanities, digital mapping, Digital pedagogy, Digital Teaching

IHS Roundtable – Loving v. Virginia After 50 Years

May 29, 2017 by Emily Whalen

On March 23, 2017, the Institute for Historical Studies sponsored a roundtable on the landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down laws banning inter-racial marriage. Director of HIS, Seth Garfield, introduced the three panelists, who included Jacqueline Jones, Chair of the UT Austin History Department and well known to readers of Not Even Past, Kevin […]

Filed Under: IHS & Public History Tagged With: 20th century history, american history, civil rights, civil rights movement, desegregation, economic history, History of the United States, legal history, Loving V. Virginia, myth of race, race, racism, Southern History, United States History, US History

Humanity: A History of European Concepts in Practice From the Sixteenth Century to the Present, edited by Fabian Klose and Mirjam Thulin (2016)

May 25, 2017 by Emily Whalen

This review was originally published on the Imperial & Global Forum on May 22, 2017.  By Ben Holmes (University of Exeter) What does it mean to belong to the human race? Does this belonging bring with it particular rights as well as responsibilities? What does it mean to act with humanity? These are some of […]

Filed Under: 1400s to 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, Books, Europe Tagged With: 19th Century History, 20th century history, Atlantic Slave Trade, atlantic world, colonial history, De las Casas, Early Modern Europe, Erasmus, Europe, european history, German History, Human History, human rights, Humanism, Ideology, intellectual history, International Law, legal history, Modern Europe, Premodern Europe, Protestantism, Spanish History, Transnational, Violence

Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment, By Kelly Donahue-Wallace (2017)

May 19, 2017 by Emily Whalen

By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra How can the life of an artisan who specialized in punchcutting and engraving help us shed light on “the idea of the Spanish Enlightenment”? Donahue-Wallace offers an illuminating perspective on the Enlightenment through the biography of an expert medal caster, Jerónimo Antonio Gil, whose career took him from provincial Zamora to Madrid […]

Filed Under: 1400s to 1700s, Atlantic World, Books, Europe, Transnational Tagged With: 18th century, 18th Century History, Bourbon Mexico, Bourbon Reforms, Colonial Mexico, Don Quixote, Early Modern Europe, enlightenment, Europe, King Philip of Spain, Mexican History, Mexico, Premodern Europe, Spain, Spanish Enlightenment

Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia, by Nancy P. Appelbaum (2016)

May 3, 2017 by Emily Whalen

By Madeleine Olson What occurs when elite driven narratives about national identity dramatically different differ from the realities people experienced? During the nineteenth century throughout Latin America, when national boundaries were just beginning to become coherent, the upper echelons of society constructed tales about their nations that often vastly differed from lived experiences. Between 1850 […]

Filed Under: 1800s, Books, Environment, Fashion, Latin America and the Caribbean, Memory, Politics, Race/Ethnicity Tagged With: 19th century, Borderlands, cartography, casta, Casta Paintings, colombia, cultural history, Diversity, Government, Indigenous Latin America, Latin America, Latin American, Latin American History, mapping, Mestizo, Mestizos, multicultural, Nation-states, nationalism, Nationality, Race in Latin America

The Man Who Loved Dogs, by Leonardo Padura (2013)

April 26, 2017 by Emily Whalen

By Rebecca Johnston Leonardo Padura is arguably one of Cuba’s most untouchable writers. He made his name first as an investigative journalist, and then as the author of the Havana Quartet detective series, sometimes described as “morality tales for the post-Soviet era.” The Man Who Loved Dogs is by far his most ambitious work. A […]

Filed Under: 1900s, Books, Cold War, Fiction, Politics, War, Writers/Literature Tagged With: CIA, communism, Cuba, Cuban History, Historical memory, Josef Stalin, KGB, Leonardo Padura, memory studies, Soviet, Soviet History, Soviet Union, Stalin, Stalinist, Trotsky

Hatton Sumners and the Retirement of Supreme Court Justices

April 24, 2017 by Emily Whalen

We are especially pleased to post this essay by a long-time supporter of the UT Austin Department of History. Josiah M. Daniel III, of counsel at the international law firm Vinson & Elkins, LLP, received his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law in 1978 and his master’s degree in History from UT in 1986.  In […]

Filed Under: 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, Blog, Crime/Law, United States Tagged With: american history, archives, Constitution, FDR, historical archives, History of the United States, Judith Brown, legal history, New Deal, Supreme Court, Texas, Texas Legislature, United States, United States History, US History

A Texas Historian’s Perspective on Mexican State Anticlericalism

April 17, 2017 by Emily Whalen

By Madeleine Olson Housed in a miscellaneous folder in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is an assortment of thirteen broadsides, letters, newspapers, and drafts of two articles by prominent Texas historian Herbert Gambrell (1898-1982). Gambrell had a long and prestigious academic career studying Texas history as a fixture at Southern Methodist University. These documents all […]

Filed Under: Texas Tagged With: anti-clericalism, archives, Catholic History, Constitution, historical archives, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico City, progressivism, Protestantism, Religious freedom, religious history, secularism, The Catholic Church, The Pope

Age of Anger: A History of the Present, by Pankaj Mishra (2017)

April 10, 2017 by Emily Whalen

By Ben Weiss In Age of Anger: A History of the Present, acclaimed author and journalist Pankaj Mishra explores what he describes as the tremors of global change. For the past several decades, liberal cosmopolitanism provided a false sense of security after the fall of the Soviet Union. Now, Mishra claims, world schisms have begun […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: 20th Century, 20th century history, 21st century, Anger, Cosmopolitanism, French Revolution, Global, Global HIstory, History of Nationalism, Internationalism, Lenin, Marx, modernization, Post-Cold War, Public History, The Enlightenment, world history

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