By Raymond Hyser This article is written as part of the IHS Climate in Context series. For more articles, see here. Anyone who lives in Texas knows Hurricane Harvey. Harvey, which made landfall in southern Texas on August 25, 2017, was the last major hurricane (Category 3 storm or above) to hit the Lone Star […]
This is Democracy Reading List: The Republican Party (Episode 128)
Not Even Past is proud to partner with This is Democracy, a groundbreaking podcast that brings together thoughtful voices from different generations to help make sense of current challenges and propose positive steps forward. This is Democracy Reading Lists are designed to accompany the podcast interview and to provide additional, curated readings for anyone interested in the topic under […]
Primary Source: Getty McGuire’s Botanical Basics
This and other articles in Primary Source: History from the Ransom Center Stacks represent an ongoing partnership between Not Even Past and the Harry Ransom Center, a world-renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Visit the Center’s website to learn more about its collections and get involved. Located on a secure floor in the Ransom […]
This is Democracy – Participatory Democracy from the Sixties to Today
Guest: Vaneesa Cook received her PhD in US history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. She is the author of Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left. Her articles on the history of social movements and religious thought have appeared in The Washington Post, Dissent magazine, and Religion & Politics, among others. She is […]
This is Democracy Reading List: Participatory Democracy from the Sixties to Today (Episode 126)
Not Even Past is proud to partner with This is Democracy, a groundbreaking podcast that brings together thoughtful voices from different generations to help make sense of current challenges and propose positive steps forward. This is Democracy Reading Lists are designed to accompany the podcast interview and to provide additional, curated readings for anyone interested in the topic under […]
IHS Climate in Context: Analyzing Trees as Historical Evidence
By Raymond Hyser As the next iteration of the Institute for Historical Studies’ 2020-21 theme on “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented,” Dr. Jared Farmer, a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk on Thursday, December 3rd at 3:30 PM central time. His talk entitled “Ancient Trees in […]
Not Even Past at 10: Not Even Past by the Numbers
In 2020 Not Even Past marks its ten-year anniversary. For the site’s origin story, see the interview with our founding editor, Dr Joan Neuberger. Since its creation, the site has emerged as a robust and influential platform for Public History with a genuinely global reach. Not Even Past is made possible by its editorial team […]
IHS Climate in Context: New Scholarship on Climate, Plague, and the Medieval World
By Raymond Hyser As part of the Institute for Historical Studies’ Climate and Context lecture series, historian and specialist in disease, medicine, and public health, Dr. Nükhet Varlık presented her work on climate, migration, and plague during the early modern Ottoman Empire. Dr. Varlık is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark and an […]