Blog Archives - Not Even Past

The Empire of the Dandelion: Environmental History in Al Crosby’s Footsteps

The Defiant Heretic: The Scandal of Justa Mendez

Photography, Film Criticism, and Left Politics

Confucian Patriarchy and the Allure of Communism in China

Inching Towards War: Military Preparedness in the 1930s

The Politics of a Handkerchief: Personal Thoughts on the Motif of Female Activism in Argentina

“Stand With Kap”: Athlete Activism at the LBJ Library

Letter to the Editor

La Mujer Unidad: Cynthia Orozco (UT History Honors Graduate ‘80)

Standish Meacham and Multiculturalism in the Public University

Three-year-olds on the world stage

Underground Santiago: Sweet Waters Grown Salty

Monumental Reinterpretation

Medieval Facial Hair in Major League Baseball

In Defense of the Crime Story

Civil War and Daily Life: Snapshots of the Early War in Guatemala

An Anticipated Tragedy: Reflections on Brazil’s National Museum

Did the British Empire depend on separating Parents and Children?

You’re Teaching WHAT?

Who Put Native American Sign Language in the US Mail?

Wrong About Everything

Cynthia Attaquin and a Wampanoag Network of Petitioners

Miss O’Keeffe

Death, Danger, and Identity at 12,000 Feet

Dagmar Lieblova, Survivor

Missing Signatures: The Archives at First Glance

What Makes a Good History Blog?

Notes From the Field: Bulgaria’s Tolstoyan Vegetarians

The Tiger

Historians on Marriage and Sexuality in the United States

Ideological Origins of a Cold Warrior: John Foster Dulles and his Grandfather

Demystifying “Cool:” A Brief History

Dorothy Parker Loved the Funnies

“Doing” History in the Modern U.S. Survey: Teaching with and Analyzing Academic Articles

Searching for Armenian Children in Turkey: Work Series on Migration, Exile, and Displacement

Che Guevara’s Last Interview

Studying the Vietnam War: How the Scholarship Has Changed

Mapping & Microbes: The New Archive (No. 22)

Commemorating 9/11 in 2017

Rodolfo Valentín González Pérez: An unusual disappearance

A Deportation Story: Russia 1914

The Museo Regional de Oriente in San Miguel, El Salvador

Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Films

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

Digital Teaching: Mapping Networks Across Avant-Garde Magazines

Hatton Sumners and the Retirement of Supreme Court Justices

Digital Teaching: The Stalinist Purges on Video

A Texas Historian’s Perspective on Mexican State Anticlericalism

The Media Matters: Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Discovery of Hunger in the U.S.

China Today: Communism for Americans in the 1930s

Why I Ban the Word “Feminism” from My Classes

Media and Politics From the Prague Spring Archive

Looking Into the Katyn Massacre

Secrecy and Bureaucratic Distancing: Tracing Complaints through the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive

Giordano Bruno and the Spirit that Moves the Earth

History of Modern Central America Through Digital Archives

A Historian’s Gaze: Women, Law, and the Colonial Archives of Singapore

Sergei Eisenstein on “The Birth of a Nation”

Antonio de Ulloa’s Relación Histórica del Viage a la America Meridional

Digital Teaching: A Mid-Semester Timeline

Virtual Auschwitz

My Alternative PhD in History

Examining Race in Appleton, WI

The Prague Spring Archive Project

Before Hamilton

#changethedate: Australia’s Holiday Controversy

Women’s March, Like Many Before It, Struggles for Unity

Longfellow’s Great Liberators: Abraham Lincoln and Dante Alighieri

Finding Hitler (in All the Wrong Places?)

Historical Objects: Latin America

History Calling: LBJ and Thurgood Marshall on the Telephone

Foreign Policy from Candidate to President: Richard Nixon and the Lesson of Biafra

How Washington Helped Fidel Castro Rise to Power

Cuba on Not Even Past

Tatlin’s Fish: Art and Revolution in Everyday Life

Textbooks, Texas, and Discontent: The Fight against Inadequate Educational Resources

The Blemished Archive: How Documents Get Saved

An Apology for Propaganda

For Native Americans, Land Is More Than Just the Ground Beneath Their Feet

Restless Youth: The CIA, Socialist Humanism, and Yugoslavia’s 1968 Student Protests

Peeping Through the Bamboo Curtain: Archives in the People’s Republic of China

Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles: A Public History Project

Popular Culture in the Classroom

What Killed Albert Einstein?

The Museum of Sour Milk: History Lessons on Bulgarian Yogurt

A Revolting People: Three Lesser-known Makers of the American Revolution

Mapping Newcomers in Buenos Aires, 1928

Policing Art in Early Soviet Russia

Acapulco-Manila: the Galleon, Asia and Latin America, 1565-1815

US Survey Course: Teaching US History

US Survey Course: USA and the Middle East

US Survey Course: US Women’s History

US Survey Course: Presidents Past

US Survey Course: The Long 1970s, The Reagan Revolution, and the End of the Cold War

US Survey Course: Civil Rights

US Survey Course: Mexico-US Interactions and Hispanic America

US Survey Course: Vietnam War

US Survey Course: Cold War

US Survey Course: The World Wars

US Survey Course: American Capitalism at home and abroad

US Survey Course: Reconstruction

US Survey Course: The American West, Native Americans, and Environmental History

US Survey Course: Emancipation Proclamation

US Survey Course: Civil War (1861-1865)

US Survey Course: Slavery

US Survey Course: Colonial US and the American Revolution

Muhammad Ali helped make black power into a global brand

Reconstruction in Austin: The Unknown Soldiers

Whose Classical Traditions?

Watching Soccer for the Very First Time in the American West

How to Write for the Public

From Postcard to Picasso: Nakedness on Display

Digital Teaching: Behind the Scenes in the Liberal Arts ITS Development Studio

American Zionism and Soviet Jews

Digital Teaching: Prioritizing Public Speaking

Remembering Chernobyl

Between Traditions: A Nigerian Writer’s Funeral

Sanctuary Austin: 1980s and Today

Digital Teaching: Behind the Scenes – Students Serving Students

A New Fascist Revolution?

Diasporic Charity and Salonica’s Jewish Community after the Fire of 1917

Digital Teaching: Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Tejanos through Time

Digital Teaching: From the Other Side of the Screen: A Student’s View Part II

Painters, Pigments, and the Making of the Florentine Codex

Digital Teaching: From the Other Side of the Screen: A Student’s View

Sowing the Seeds of Communism: Corn Wars in the USA

Digital Teaching: Blending the Old with the New: In-Person Studio Attendance

Digital Teaching: Anywhere, (Almost) Anytime: Online Office Hours

Digital Pedagogy: THATCamp Comes to UT Austin

Smallpox: Eradicated but Not Erased

Gandhi the Imperialist

Digital Teaching: Ping! Are you listening? Taking Digital Attendance

Remembering Willie “El Diablo” Wells and Baseball’s Negro Leagues

Digital Teaching: Talking in Class? Yes, Please!

The First Rule of Flight Club

Our History Mixtape: Embracing Music in the Classroom

Digital Teaching: Taking U.S. History Online

The Public Historian: Giving it Back

Two Bowies, One Knife

Call Pest Control: The Bug Problem at the US Embassy in Moscow

Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism

Corpses, Canoes and Catastrophes: An 18th-Century Priest’s Resume

Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing of Europe

50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese American Perspective

Walter Benjamin on Divine Violence

Lessons from London: what happens when universities place PhD students in museums?

Vietnam between the United States and Yugoslavia

Rabin’s Assassination Twenty Years Later

Dominance without Hegemony, by Ranajit Guha (1997)

History Museums: The Center for Memory, Peace, and Reconciliation, Bogotá, Colombia

Slavoj Žižek and Violence

Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction

Could a Supreme Court justice be president?

Remembering the Iran-Iraq War

Foucault on Power, Bodies, and Discipline

The Seldoms Bring LBJ and the 1960s Into the Present in Their Investigation of How Power Goes

Notes from the Field: From Feasts to Feats (or Feet) on the Coals

Charleston Shooting Exposes America’s Pro-Apartheid Cold War Past

On Flags, Monuments, and Historical Myths

Another Perspective on the Texas Textbook Controversy

Gramsci on Hegemony

Louis Althusser on Interpellation, and the Ideological State Apparatus

History Museums: The Bullock Texas State History Museum

Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker

History Museums: Museo Nacionál de Antropología, Mexico

Photographing the German Air War, 1939-1945

Magna Carta and Anglo-American Constitutionalism

History Museums: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Honest Abe’s Archive: The New Archive (No. 21)

History Museums: The Hall of Never Again

Notes from the field: Retracing Sixteenth-Century Steps in Seville

History Museums: Race, Eugenics, and Immigration in New York History Museums

From the Humanities to the Digital Humanities: The New Archive (No. 20)

History Museums: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Che in Gaza: Searching for the Story Behind the Image

A Graphic Revolution: The New Archive (No. 19)

Notes from the Field: The Murder of Boris Nemtsov

Notes from the Field: Northeast Japan after the Tsunami

Boomtown, USA: An Historical Look at Fracking

Glimpsed in the Archive and Known no More: One Indian Slave’s Tale

Notes From the Field: Trinity College, Cambridge and the Accidents of Research

The Future of Cuba-Texas Relations

Notes from the Field: The Pope in Manila

#Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy

After WWII: A Soviet View of U.S. Intentions

Digital History: Resources

Texas is Adopting New History Textbooks: Maybe They Should Be Historically Accurate

After WWII: George Kennan’s “Long Telegram”

Facing North from Inca Country: Entanglement, Hybridity, and Rewriting Atlantic History

Ghosts and the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror

Study History: Help Save America’s Crumbling Infrastructure and Bring the Humanities Together with the STEM

Digital Visualization Workshop, Venice 2014: The New Archive (No. 17)

Slavery in America: Back in the Headlines

Giving a life, winning a patrimony

“Oh this learning, what a thing it is!”: The New Archive (No. 16)

Andrew Cox Marshall: Between Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Capitalism After Socialism in Cuba

The Holland Family: An American Story

A Hidden Jewish “Archive” in the Azores

The Revolution will televise football

Civility and Speech in the Modern University, 200 Years Ago in Germany

Independence for Scotland? An Historical Perspective on the Scottish Referendum

The Countess’s Cats

Why We Don’t Go to the Moon Anymore: The Space Program and the Challenge to Scientific Thinking

UNESCO Designates Costa Rica’s Ancient Stone Balls a World Heritage Site

Ten Things to Remember During Your Research Year

Students Debating History: Another Look at the Video Essay

#BringBackOurGirls: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria

California’s Gold Rush in Pictures: The New Archive (No. 15)

The End of the Lost Generation of World War I: Last Person Standing

Seeing John Donne Speak: The New Archive (No. 14)

Visitors of the Nile: The New Archive (No. 13)

Passover 1934: An American Jewish Family Story

Hearing the Roaring Twenties: The New Archive (No. 12)

Harper’s Weekly’s Portrayal of the Civil War: The New Archive (No. 11)

Mapping The Slave Trade: The New Archive (No. 10)

Persuasion, Propaganda, and Radio Free Europe: The New Archive (No. 9)

The Texas State Historical Association Launches the Tejano History Handbook Project

An Emotional Database: The New Archive (No. 8)

Sixteen Months in a Leaky Boat

Hungary 1956. Crimea 2014? The New Archive (No. 7)

The Tatars of Crimea: Ethnic Cleansing and Why History Matters

Sound Maps: The New Archive (No. 6)

Getz/Gilberto Fifty Years Later: A Retrospective

The 1980 Moscow Olympics and my Family

iTunes Remembers Black History: The New Archive (No. 5)

Presidents on NEP for Presidents’ Day

History in Motion: The New Archive (No. 4)

The Latest from Longhorn PhDs

Domesticating Ethnic Foods and Becoming American

History Made Magic: The Scrapbooks of Harry Houdini Come Alive

Visualizing Emancipation(s): Mapping The End of Slavery in America

Parenting in Hard Times: Child Abandonment in Early Modern Europe

A Rebellion Remembered: The Irish Easter Rising’s New Digital Archive

The Lessons of History? Debating the Vietnam and Iraq Wars

Kalashnikov’s Lawn Mower: The Man behind the Most Feared Gun in the World

Dallas Chaos

Selling ourselves short? PhDs Inside the Academy and Outside of the Professoriate

Pipelines along Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Standard Oil in Louisiana

A Historian Reads Machiavelli

Braided History

Exploring the Silk Route

Stephen F. Austin’s bookstore receipt

“For a Gunner”: A World War II Love Story

Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America

UT Gender Symposium: Women’s Bodies and Political Agendas

Passing for Portuguese: One Family’s Struggle with Race and Identity in America

Historians Reflect on the March on Washington, August 28, 1963

Transpacific China in the Cold War

The Prisoner of Events in Vietnam

Counterfactual History in a New Video Game

CIA Study: “Consequences to the US of Communist Domination of Mainland Southeast Asia,” October 13, 1950

Digital History: A Primer (Part 2)

Lady Bird Johnson, In Her Own Words

Por Ahora: The Legacy of Hugo Chávez Frías

“And really,” she concluded, “History is kind of the king.”

Digital History: A Primer (Part 1)

Could a Muslim – or a Catholic or a Jew – Be President? A 1788 Constitutional Debate

When a Government Tells Historians How to Write and How to Teach

Was Iraq War Worth It? 10 Years after Invasion, It’s Too Early to Know

“Her Program’s Progress”

New Books in Women’s History

Einstein, Relativity and Myths

Papal Resignation: What the News Media Left Out

A Rare Phone Call from One President to Another

Pinching and Swiping, or How I Won the Digital War

“The End of Austin” – A new online publication

Responses from Authors of the NAS Report on Teaching US History at UT

From the Editor: On the Report by The National Association of Scholars about US History at UT

Sarin Over Aleppo

An “Act of Justice”?

Work Left Undone: Emancipation was not Abolition

The Emancipation Proclamation reaches Savannah

1863 in 1963

Winners!! Undergraduate Essay Contest

A Historian in Hong Kong: Living in the Future-Looking at the Past

“You have died of dysentery” – History According to Video Games

Henry Wiencek Sr on Thomas Jefferson, Slave owner

History is Messy Work. And That’s OK.

Election Fraud! Read All About It!

Ned Kelley – Australian Folk Hero – in the News

Exorcism

Napoleon in Russia, 1812

Cold War Smoke: Cigarettes Across Borders

H.W. Brands on Thomas Carlyle on the French Revolution

An Architectural History of Garrison Hall

Hannah Adams: Historian of American Jews

Pussy Riot

William Faulkner: Not Even Past

The threat of violence comes home to UT

White House Forum on Latino Heritage

K-12 Teachers at UT to Study US Foreign Policy

The Plan B Career in History

Thinking About the Constitution

Failed Enlightenment: Urban Design and French Modernity in Beirut

Historians and Health Care

Health Care: A Historical Snapshot

Mapping the Earth, Mapping the Air

Teaching Texas

History Carnival, May 2012

Was Einstein Really Religious?

A Medieval Nun, Writing

A New History Journal Produced by Students

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 – 2000

Humanitarian Intervention Before YouTube

Yarico’s Story

Contraception – Letters from French Women, 1960s-70s

Twitter for Historians

Black Amateur Photography

The Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919

Zimbabwe’s Hanging Tree

African American History Online

The Freedmen’s Bureau: Work After Emancipation

Making History – New Podcast Series

Competent Flutterbys and My Semester of Struggle

Voices of India’s Partition, Part V

Voices of India’s Partition, Part V: Professor Mohammad Amin

Voices of India’s Partition, Part IV

Voices of India’s Partition, Part IV: Professor Masood ul Hasan

Iran’s Nuclear Program and the History of the IAEA

Voices of India’s Partition, Part III: Professor Irfan Habib

Voices of India’s Partition, Part III

UT History at the AHA Annual Meeting

Borderlands Business: Conflict and Cooperation on the US-Mexico Border

Voices of India’s Partition, Part II: Mr. S.M. Mehdi

Winners! Student Essay Contest

Rethinking Borders: Salman Rushdie & Sebastião Salgado on the US-Mexico Border

Telling Stories, Writing History: Novel Week at NEP

On Veterans’ Day: War Photos

Casta Paintings

The Strangest Dream – Reykjavik 1986

Voices of India’s Partition, Part II

Arab Autumn: Egypt Now

The Death of Qaddafi by Historians

The Present in the Past: Ohio State’s website

Historians on Occupy Wall Street: Protest, Dissent, and the Search for Order

Bad Blood: Newly Discovered Documents on US Funded Syphilis Experiments

More Looking at World War II

Looking at World War II

Lend-Lease Live: The Video

Lend-Lease

The Atomic Bombs and the End of World War II: Tracking an Elusive Decision

The “Einstein Letter” — A Tipping Point in History

Debating the Causes of the Civil War

A thoughtful historian on “The future of memory”

How Tall is Too Tall?

After September 11

Re-Reading John Winthrop’s “City upon the Hill”

Seeing 9/11: The Falling Man Photograph

An Ode to a High School History Teacher: Or, What 9/11 Means to Me Today

September 11, 2001

Twitter for Historians, or #twitterstorians

Samuel Pepys Tweets

Reading is Hard: Should We Give it Up?

Order No. 227: Stalinist Methods and Victory on the Eastern Front

Gunter Demnig’s “Stumbling Blocks”

Oil and Weapons in Gaddafi’s Libya

Flickers of the Past

Summer, Interrupted

Changing Course in Vietnam — or Not

Sounds of the Past #2

A Dangerous Idea

Joe Jamail Delivers 2011 Commencement Address

Black Loyalists and “The Book of Negroes”

Family Outing in Austin, Texas

Naming and Picturing New World Nature

Three Hundred Sex Crimes

Americans and The Royal Wedding

Dividing by Nothing

“What Would Jesus Do?”

Sounds of the Past

Normal Pictures in Abnormal Times

Let the Enslaved Testify

John Hope Franklin: An Appreciation

Black is Beautiful – And Profitable

Radio & Community

“Not Like Baghdad” – The Looting and Protection of Egypt’s Treasures

Big Bend – “Some sort of scenic beauty”

Propaganda or Progress?

History Underfoot

Voices of India’s Partition, Part I

Voices of India’s Partition, Part I: Mrs. Zahra Haider

A Medieval Vision

LBJ and Vietnam: A Conversation