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Citizens at Last: Texas Women Fight for the Vote

When Ghost Towns Lack Ghosts

Littlefield Lecture Series 2021 with Nikole Hannah-Jones

Celebrating Research Excellence: The Lathrop Prize and the Perry Prize, 2021

Documenting the Texas Winter Storm – Images from the UT Community

From Peaceful Village to Army Outpost: Memories of Militarization in Huehuetenango

Remote Reflections: Writing a Dissertation during a Pandemic

Salvation, Science and Synthetic Rubber

Gender Symposium, Spring 2021

How a city plan, the atomic age and Cold War economics converged to shape today’s Austin banner image

How a city plan, the atomic age and Cold War economics converged to shape today’s Austin

Introducing Our New Associate Editor: Gabrielle Esparza

The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You: Have You Paid that Poll Tax? Header Image

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

This is Democracy Reading List: The Republican Party (Episode 128)

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

This is Democracy Reading List: Participatory Democracy from the Sixties to Today (Episode 126)

Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence (1909)

Not Even Past at 10: Not Even Past by the Numbers

This is Democracy Reading List: Historical Memory and National Trauma (episode 121)

HPS talk: “Reconsidering Buddhist Embryology as Science History.”

Out of the Rubble: Doctors Strikes and State Repression in Guatemala’s Cold War

Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire

An Interview with Dr. Jeremi Suri and Zachary Suri, This is Democracy

A new collaboration between This is Democracy and Not Even Past

This is Democracy Reading List: Dissent and National Security (episode 120)

History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium: Society and Information in Writing the History of Disease (Sumit Guha)

The Purpose of a History PHD: Lessons Learned from Career Diversity

Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Brian Stauffer

Gender Symposium, Fall 2020

Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Eric Busch

New Books in Native American and Indigenous Studies You Need to Read on Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Navigating the PhD and Beyond: David Conrad

Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Verónica Martínez-Matsuda

Dead Babies in Boxes: Dealing with the Consequences of Interrupted Reproduction

My Journey Through Career Diversity

A Year in Time: The Student Experience of ClioVis

ClioVis: Description, Origin and Uses

Interview with Dr Erika Bsumek, the creator of ClioVis

Introducing Past in Process, a new historical studies journal at UT

Technology in Paper: Interactive Design in Early Printed Books

Creating a Collective Conversation: A Tribute to Joan Neuberger

Not Even Past at 10: An Interview with Joan Neuberger

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

Hate and Hope in the Upside Down World

Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Immigration and Virologic Hysteria

Road Rage

Anti-Semitism in Poland after the Six-Day War, 1967-1969

Indelibly Inked: Bodies, Tattoos, and Violence during Guatemala’s Civil War

A Small Country Lost in the Files: Albania’s Absence in an American Archive

Old Orthodox Icons in Communist Bulgaria

Free Healthcare with a Price

Yugoslavia in the Third World: Not a New Bloc but Unity of Action in the Interest of Peace

Maurice Cowling and AJP Taylor: What Would They Think of Brexit?

Presenting Prague Spring to the West: Czechoslovak Life and Socialism with a Human Face

The Gilded Age roots of Trump’s Trade Philosophy

The Odds are Stacked Against Us: Oral Histories of Black Healthcare in the U.S.

Sky Pilot, How High Can You Fly

Native Literatures and Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Brief Historiography

The Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

Romero

José and His Brothers

Turbo-folk: Pop Music in the Crucible of Balkan History

The Refugees of ’68: The U.S. Response to Czechoslovak Refugees during Prague Spring

The Frontera Collection

It’s in Their Blood

The Anthropocene and Environmental History

Secrets of the Crypt

“London is Drowning and I, I Live by the River”: The Clash’s London Calling at 40

From There to Here: The Archive

The Defiant Heretic: The Scandal of Justa Mendez

From There to Here: Matthew Butler

From There to Here: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

From There to Here: Indrani Chatterjee

From PhD to Public Advocate: My Path

Photography, Film Criticism, and Left Politics

From There to Here: Lina de Castillo

Confucian Patriarchy and the Allure of Communism in China

From There to Here: Susan Deans-Smith

Inching Towards War: Military Preparedness in the 1930s

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

From There to Here: Yoav Di-Capua

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

From There to Here: Toyin Falola

Letter to the Editor

From There to Here: Julie Hardwick

From There to Here: Tatjana Lichtenstein

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?

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

The Curious History of Lincoln’s Birth Cabin

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)

More than Archives: Dealing with Unfinished History

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

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

Hatton Sumners and the Retirement of Supreme Court Justices

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

My Alternative PhD in History

Examining Race in Appleton, WI

#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?)

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

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

What Killed Albert Einstein?

The Museum of Sour Milk: History Lessons on Bulgarian Yogurt

Mapping Newcomers in Buenos Aires, 1928

Policing Art in Early Soviet Russia

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

Muhammad Ali helped make black power into a global brand

Whose Classical Traditions?

Watching Soccer for the Very First Time in the American West

From Postcard to Picasso: Nakedness on Display

American Zionism and Soviet Jews

Remembering Chernobyl

Between Traditions: A Nigerian Writer’s Funeral

A New Fascist Revolution?

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

Time to Remember: Violence in Museums and Memory in Colombia, 2000-2014

Painters, Pigments, and the Making of the Florentine Codex

Sowing the Seeds of Communism: Corn Wars in the USA

Smallpox: Eradicated but Not Erased

Gandhi the Imperialist

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

The First Rule of Flight Club

The Public Historian: Giving it Back

Two Bowies, One Knife

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

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

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

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

Gramsci on Hegemony

Louis Althusser on Interpellation, and the Ideological State Apparatus

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

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

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

Che in Gaza: Searching for the Story Behind the Image

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

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

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

Slavery in America: Back in the Headlines

Giving a life, winning a patrimony

Andrew Cox Marshall: Between Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Capitalism After Socialism in Cuba

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

#BringBackOurGirls: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria

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

Passover 1934: An American Jewish Family Story

Sixteen Months in a Leaky Boat

The Tatars of Crimea: Ethnic Cleansing and Why History Matters

Getz/Gilberto Fifty Years Later: A Retrospective

The 1980 Moscow Olympics and my Family

Presidents on NEP for Presidents’ Day

Domesticating Ethnic Foods and Becoming American

Parenting in Hard Times: Child Abandonment in Early Modern Europe

The Lessons of History? Debating the Vietnam and Iraq Wars

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

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

Politicizing the Past: Depictions of Indo-Aryans in Indian Textbooks from 1998-2007

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

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.”

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

Sarin Over Aleppo

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

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

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

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

“Captive Fates: Displaced American Indians in the Southwest Borderlands, Mexico, and Cuba, 1500-1800.”

“‘Perl’s of Wisdom’: ‘Rabbi’ Sam Perl, New Models of Acculturation, and the ‘In- Between’ Jew”

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

Making History: Takkara Brunson

Humanitarian Intervention Before YouTube

Yarico’s Story

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

Black Amateur Photography

The Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919

Zimbabwe’s Hanging Tree

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

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

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

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

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" by Cassandra Pybus

Black Loyalists and “The Book of Negroes”

Naming and Picturing New World Nature

Three Hundred Sex Crimes

Americans and The Royal Wedding

Dividing by Nothing

“What Would Jesus Do?”

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

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