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“Muhammad’s Law” in Latin America: Outlining Historiographical Legacies of Early Modern Atlantic Islam

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Pensar el archivo hasta no ver. Ceguera y redes afectivas

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Archives & Blindness

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Tips for using PARES (Portal de Archivos Estatales)

An Overlooked Success: How the Failed Annexation of Santo Domingo led to the Successful Prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: An experiential approach to the Archive of the Indies

The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World (IHS Book Talk)

13 Ways of Looking: JFK’s Missing Wreath

Bridging the Archival Divide. Lessons from ‘Archiving Activism Freedom School’

Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso (IHS Book Talk)

Leaps of Fame: The Rise of Sam Patch and a Changing Industrial Landscape

Notes from the Field: Crnojević’s Shelves. Exploratory research in the archives of Montenegro

A visceral turn: Dr. Zeb Tortorici and queer alterities to the archives

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Procesados e interrogados. Encontrando las voces de los Yaqui en los archivos judiciales de Sonora

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NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Prosecuted and interrogated. Finding the voices of the Yaqui in the judicial archives of Sonora

The bold political style of Luciano Cruz: The Chilean student protests of 1967

Review of Carros y Cultura: Lowriding Legacies in Texas at the Bullock Texas State History Museum

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5 Books I recommend from Comps: The History of Psychedelics

NEP’S Archive Chronicles: El Archivo General de la Nación (AGN, Ciudad de México): Procesos afectivos, paisajes urbanos y la escritura de la historia

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: The General National Archive (AGN, Mexico City): Affective Processes, Urban Landscapes, and the Writing of History

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From Africa to Austin: Bondy Washington

River Depths, Bordered Lands, and Circuitous Routes: On Returning to Texas

Review of The Floating World: Masterpieces of Edo Japan at The Blanton Museum of Art

Alexei Navalny’s Legacy and Anti-Putin Resistance

The 1878 Total Eclipse and Texas Curiosities

Flawed Assertions and Questionable Evidence: A Critical Examination of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States

The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019

The Fellowship of the Tree Rings: A ClioVis Project

The Weight Around My Neck

Notes from the Field: Reflections on Dictatorship and Democracy in Argentina

Motherhood, Patriotism and Enfranchisement: How Mexican Catholic Women Defined Womanhood in the Mid-Twentieth Century 

Loosening the Grid: Ideas for Mapping the Human Experience (IHS talk report)

Memories of War: Japanese Borderlands Experiences during WWII

A Lager Beer Revolution: The History of Beer and German American Immigration

Saving History: Cultural Heritage, Preservation and Public Service

Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field: The Strange Case of Thome Corea

October 1973: Nixon’s decision to resupply Israel

“Texas, Our Catholic Texas”?

Fear and Lust in the Desert, or How Lies, Deception, and Trickery Made California a Date Palm Monopoly

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Two Bombings, Two Movies: From Hiroshima to Grave of the Fireflies

Roundtable Review of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink

In Pursuit of Europe: An Interview with Anthony Pagden (Part II)

In Pursuit of Europe: An Interview with Anthony Pagden (Part I)

Remembering Carlos E. Castañeda: A Mexican Historian in Texas

“Free Walter Collins!”: Black Draft Resistance and Prisoner Defense Campaigns during the Vietnam War

Citizens at Last: Texas Women Fight for the Vote

Burying the Lede? The Iran Hostage Crisis “October Surprise” and Me

Black Women’s Academic Work is Not for the Taking

Bridging the Gap over Uncharted Waters: An Interview with Kyle Balzer

Bloody History, Historical Recovery: Monica Muñoz Martinez and the Work of the Historian

Lecturing in Kherson: A One-Year Reflection on Maps, Occupations, and Russia’s War against Ukraine

Remembering Rio Speedway

Bearing the Nation: Eugenics and Contentious Feminism in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

The Merchant, the Marriage, and the Treaty Port: Reassessing Ōura Kei

Remembering LBJ: An Interview with Mark Atwood Lawrence

Picturing My Family: A World War II Odyssey

Picturing My Family: Wartime Weddings and a People’s War

From Camp David to Baghdad: Scrambling for and Against Peace in the Middle East, Fall 1978

“We Didn’t Have to Ask Permission”: UT’s 1960s Hidden Gay Oasis

Picturing My Family: Fathers and Sons

Professor Toyin Falola: Living and Globalizing the Humanities

Confronting Dictatorship: Jimmy Carter and Human Rights Diplomacy in Argentina

Ghosts over the Water: How we designed a historical video game that takes players into 19th century Japan

Los huecos de la Historia: una entrevista con Nathaly Rodríguez Sánchez / The Spaces of History: An Interview with Nathaly Rodríguez Sánchez

Crises as Catalysts: The Case for Optimism in Future US-Russia Arms Control Negotiations

Early Modern and Colonial Histories of Globalization: An Interview with Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (Part II)

Putin’s Effort to Make Conquest Acceptable Again

Una conversación con la Dra. Silvia Arrom/ A Conversation with Dr. Silvia Arrom

Early Modern and Colonial Histories of Globalization: An Interview with Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (Part I)

Complicated Inclusion: Exploring the Reception of Nigerian Immigrants in the United States

“Yellow Peril” and Naval Power: Richmond P. Hobson and the Racist Imagination of American National Security

Lessons from the Grave

Local Memory: Telling Austin’s Musical History

Introducing “Uncharted Waters,” a New Article Series from Not Even Past and the Clements Center for National Security

Tracking Kurosawa Through Postwar Japan (and How I Turned a Side Hustle Into a Book)

Tracking Kurosawa Through Postwar Japan (and How I Turned a Side Hustle Into a Book)

Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and the Queer History of the Old Clothes Scandal

Diversity, National Identity, and the Fraught History Behind the State Department’s Search for Diplomats Who “Look Like America”

“We may expect nothing but shacks to be erected here”: An Environmental History of Downtown Austin’s Waterloo Park

“We may expect nothing but shacks to be erected here”: An Environmental History of Downtown Austin’s Waterloo Park

A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory

Primary Source: The Pirate Zheng Yi Sao and a Fine Press Publisher

Adriana Pacheco Roldán and Community Building

The Archive as Nepantla: Dr. Daniel Arbino, The Anzaldúa Papers and The Intricacies of Being Beyond Doing

The Archive as Nepantla: Dr. Daniel Arbino, The Anzaldúa Papers and The Intricacies of Being Beyond Doing

Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Revolutionizing Latin American History with Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Revolutionizing Latin American History with Artificial Intelligence

The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire

Roundtable: Effects of COVID on the Chinese Diaspora in North America

Archives and their Afterlives: Conversing with the Work of Kirsten Weld

Archives and their Afterlives: Conversing with the Work of Kirsten Weld

Black Cowboys: An American Story

Black Cowboys: An American Story

Casta Paintings

NEP Second Edition: Casta Paintings

HPS Talk: "Hacking Airspace: The Insurgent Technology of Brazil’s Hot Air Balloons" by Felipe Fernandes Cruz, Tulane University

HPS Talk: Hacking Airspace: The Insurgent Technology of Brazil’s Hot Air Balloons

Preservation and Decay as Public History at the Moon-Randolph Homestead

Preservation and Decay as Public History at the Moon-Randolph Homestead

Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Viewing Juan de Miranda’s Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Viewing Juan de Miranda’s Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Hidden in Plain (Virtual) Sight: Searching for a Lost Portrait of Sor Juana by Juan de Miranda and Finding a Photograph of it in a Digital Archive

Hidden in Plain (Virtual) Sight: Searching for a Lost Portrait of Sor Juana by Juan de Miranda and Finding a Photograph of it in a Digital Archive

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

Primary Source: Notes for a Napoleonic Scandal

The McFarland Cuban Plantation Records

Tasting Empanadas and Red Wine in Chile’s Popular Unity Revolution

Tasting Empanadas and Red Wine in Chile’s Popular Unity Revolution

Unboxing the Saints: A Curious Case from Early Modern Milan

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

Primary Source: English Martyrs on the Streets of Milan

Fighting against Oblivion and Obscurity: Asian American Studies and its Place in U.S. Education

Black Women’s History in the US: Past & Present

“We Don’t Have to Boo It:” UT’s Black Lesbian Student Government President

New Research: History Honors Projects

The Catholic Church and the Dirty War: Documents from the Benson Latin American Collection

The Catholic Church and the Dirty War: Documents from the Benson Latin American Collection

To Rule the Waves: Britain’s Cable Empire and the Birth of Global Communications

CEAS Talk: “Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War” with Taomo Zhou

Primary Source: Hares in the Margins of Judgment Day

Writing Global Ecological History ‘From Below’: An Interview with Gregory Cushman

Refusing to Forget

Engaging Communities: Emilio Zamora and the Work of the Historian

Alberto Torres Fuster, Artist, 1872-1922

The Death of Yukio Mishima, 50 Years On

The Trial of the Juntas: Reckoning with State Violence in Argentina

The Trial of the Juntas: Reckoning with State Violence in Argentina

Primary Source: Patronage and Power in Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Court

Primary Source: Patronage and Power in Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Court

New Documentary – Origins of a Green Identity: Austin’s Conservation Pioneers

The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico

The Benson as Anti-Colonial Library and Archive: A Letter from the Incoming Director of the Institute for Historical Studies

A Family Fight on the Bosporus: The Ashkenazi Jews of the Ottoman Empire

IHS Climate in Context - Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

IHS Climate in Context – Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

When Ghost Towns Lack Ghosts

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Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript

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

Salvation, Science and Synthetic Rubber

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An Inconvenient Past: Slavery at the Texas Governor’s Mansion

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

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Primary Source: An Archbishop’s Lost Library Catalog

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Primary Source: Getty McGuire’s Botanical Basics

IHS Climate in Context: Climate by Proxy

The Vanishing American Century?

Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence (1909)

The Myth and the Massacre: A Murder on Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day

Online Resources for the Study of Climate History and Suburban Life

Primary Source: Pamphlets, Propaganda, and the Amboina Conspiracy Trial in the Classroom

IHS Climate in Context: New Scholarship on Climate, Plague, and the Medieval World

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

Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire

An Intimate History of the Twentieth Century

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

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

Primary Source: An Elizabethan Exorcist's (very weird) Secret Press

Primary Source: An Elizabethan Exorcist’s (very weird) Secret Press

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

Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Brian Stauffer

Fifty Years On: Remembering Gamal Abd al-Nasser

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

IHS Climate in Context: Earth and Outer Space in Environmental History

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

The War in Afghanistan is Nineteen Years Old: What Can it Teach us about Violence in American History?

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Teaching Texas History in a Time of Pandemic: Reflections on Online Teaching

Monsoon Islam: An interview with Sebastian Prange

Technology in Paper: Interactive Design in Early Printed Books

The Sword and The Shield: A Conversation with Peniel E. Joseph (Part II)

The Sword and The Shield: A Conversation with Peniel E. Joseph (Part I)

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Immigration and Virologic Hysteria

Road Rage

Five Women Posing near the Spirit of the Confederacy Statue, Houston, Texas (1908) via SMU Libraries Digital Collections

Making History: Houston’s “Spirit of the Confederacy”

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

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

Black and white image of Lizzie Scott Neblett

A (Queer) Rebel Wife In Texas

Free Healthcare with a Price

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

The Austin Women Activists Oral History Project

Photograph of the first page of Julien Sidney Devereux, Sr.'s will

Documenting Slavery in East Texas: Transcripts from Monte Verdi

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

Queering Postwar Marriage in the U.S.

Banner image of the post Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

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

Oil and Money: Texas Politics, 1929-1932

Black and white image of the Neill-Cochran House

The Enslaved and the Blind: State Officials and Enslaved People in Austin, Texas

His Whaleship: The Stories of Real, Authentic, Dead Whales

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

Black and white image of women Register to Vote in Travis County, 1918

Voting Rights Still Threatened 100 Years After the 19th Amendment

Rising From the Ashes: The Oklahoma Eagle and its Long Road to Preservation

Dean Page Keeton and Academic Freedom at UT Austin: Three Archival Letters

The Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

Kusumoto Ine: A Remarkable Woman in Meiji Restoration Japan

Romero

Black and white image of Helen Martinez and her four children in San Antonio, Texas

Remembering the Tex-Son Strike: Legacies of Latina-led Labor Activism in San Antonio, Texas

José and His Brothers

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

Image of the painting A Ride for Liberty by Eastman Johnson from the Brooklyn Museum

Love in the Time of Texas Slavery

The Quilombo Activists’ Archive and Post-Custodial Preservation, Part II

Crafting a Republic for the World in 19th-Century Colombia

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

Black and white photograph of a headshot of Tom Ward

A Longhorn’s Life of Service: Tom Ward

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

The Frontera Collection

It’s in Their Blood

The Anthropocene and Environmental History

The Quilombo Activists’ Archive and Post-Custodial Preservation, Part I

Secrets of the Crypt

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

White Women and the Economy of Slavery

The Defiant Heretic: The Scandal of Justa Mendez

The Proletarian Dream: Working-class Culture in Modern Germany

Photography, Film Criticism, and Left Politics

Confucian Patriarchy and the Allure of Communism in China

The Spirit of Honorable Compromise

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

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

An image of the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty of 1847

Letter to the Editor: Remarks on Jesse Ritner’s “Paying for Peace: Reflections on the ‘Lasting Peace’ Monument.”

Map of Austin, Texas depicting the city's various neighborhoods

Austin Historical Atlas: Development During World War I

Standish Meacham and Multiculturalism in the Public University

A print featuring a large map of San Antonio from the 19th century

Fandangos, Intemperance, and Debauchery

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

Eddie Anderson, the Black Film Star Created by Radio

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?

Black Women in Black Power

Who Put Native American Sign Language in the US Mail?

The Gods of Indian Country

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?

The Great Betrayal: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Arabs

Did Race and Racism Exist in the Middle Ages?

Notes From the Field: Bulgaria’s Tolstoyan Vegetarians

Historians on Marriage and Sexuality in the United States

Picture of barbed wire fencing and buildings from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp

On the “Polish Death Camps” Law

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

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

Goddess of Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, American Radical

Cuba’s Revolutionary World

Demystifying “Cool:” A Brief History

Dorothy Parker Loved the Funnies

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

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

Che Guevara’s Last Interview

The Bombing War and German Memory of WWII

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

The Impossible Presidency

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

Arguing about Empire: The Dreyfus Affair and the Fashoda Crisis, 1898

Hatton Sumners and the Retirement of Supreme Court Justices

Black and white photograph of Mexican president, Plutarco Elias Calles standing with members of the Apostolic Mexican Catholic Church

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

American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream

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

The Price for their Pound of Flesh

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

Digital Learning: Starting from Scratch

#changethedate: Australia’s Holiday Controversy

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

Stylized picture of a laptop sitting on a nicely decorated desk displaying the words "fake news" on a blurred out online article

History in a “Post-Truth” Era

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 Main Building at the University of Texas - Austin (via Wikimedia Commons).

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

Picture of a market stall in São Pedro, Brazil

History and Advocacy: Brazil in Turmoil

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

Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles: A Public History Project

Letter from Sion R. Bostick to Eugene C. Barker discussing the illegal slave trade in Texas in the 1830s

The Illegal Slave Trade in Texas, 1808-1865

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

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

Gravestone of Harris Rednick from a graveyard in Luling, Texas

History Revealed in a Very Small Place

Muhammad Ali Helped Make Black Power into a Global Brand

The Old Oakwood Cemetery Austin, Texas, United States. Via Wikipedia.

Reconstruction in Austin: The Unknown Soldiers

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

On the Performance Front: Internationalism and US Theatre

Remembering Chernobyl

Between Traditions: A Nigerian Writer’s Funeral

Image of the front facade of Casa Marianella in Austin, Texas

Sanctuary Austin: 1980s and Today

A New Fascist Revolution?

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

The Sword and the Camera: Becoming ISIS

Painters, Pigments, and the Making of the Florentine Codex

Sowing the Seeds of Communism: Corn Wars in the USA

1928 National Negro League Champion St. Louis Stars. Photo courtesy of the Missouri History Museum

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

Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

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

The War in Vietnam Revisited

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

Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction

Could a Supreme Court justice be president?

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

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

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

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

A cartoon depicting three young school children one covering his mouth with a book, a girl covering her eyes with a book, and another boy covering his ears with two books

Another Perspective on the Texas Textbook Controversy

Gramsci on Hegemony

Louis Althusser on Interpellation, and the Ideological State Apparatus

Old Sorrel hair

The Curious Life of General Jackson’s Horse’s Hair

Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker

Print of the bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 11th 1863. Via Wikipedia.

Conflict in the Confederacy: William Williston Heartsill’s diary

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

Reading Magnum: A Photo Archive Gets a New Life

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

Neiman Marcus building from a postcard circa 1920

Carrie Marcus Neiman: A Pioneer in Ready to Wear

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

Che in Gaza: Searching for the Story Behind the Image

View of the yard at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville, 1949

Reforming Prisons in Early Twentieth-century Texas

Notes from the Field: The Murder of Boris Nemtsov

Notes from the Field: Northeast Japan after the Tsunami

Reinventing Modern China

Boomtown, USA: An Historical Look at Fracking

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

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia

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

Black and white image of the house of the first Confederate family in Americana in Brazil

Confederados: The Texans of Brazil

The Cuban and Texas flags flying together during a pleasure ride outside of Havana. This event (minus the Texas flag) made page 3 of the NY Times on November 12, 2007.

The Future of Cuba-Texas Relations

Notes from the Field: The Pope in Manila

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

Catholic Borderlands

Comanche Feats of Horsemanship by George Catlin 1834. Via Wikimedia Commons.

“The Battle of Bandera Pass and the Making of Lone Star Legend”

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

Texas' New Social Studies Textbooks. Courtesy of Texas Tribune

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

The Global United States

Ghosts and the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror

Slavery in America: Back in the Headlines

John Salmon Ford, photographed while serving as a Colonel in the Confederate 2nd Texas Cavalry during the War Between the States. Original photograph circa 1860 to 1865. (Via Wikimedia commons

A Texas Ranger and the Letter of the Law

Giving a life, winning a patrimony

Andrew Cox Marshall: Between Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Capitalism After Socialism in Cuba

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

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

Book cover of Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg

Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an

Ten Things to Remember During Your Research Year

The Normandy Scholar Program on World War II

You Say You Want a Revolution? Reenacting History in the Classroom

#BringBackOurGirls: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria

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

Censorship in Surprising Places: Uncovering the Letters of Wilfred Owen

Passover 1934: An American Jewish Family Story

“It is a Wide Road that Leads to War”

Fools and Kings

Black and white photograph of Coco Chanel attending a Western Party with Stanley Marcus and his wife in Dallas, Texas in 1957

What Not to Wear to a Texas Barbecue, 1957

Sixteen Months in a Leaky Boat

The Tatars of Crimea: Ethnic Cleansing and Why History Matters

Indrani Chatterjee on Monasteries and Memory in Northeast India

Album cover of Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto featuring Carlos Jobim

Getz/Gilberto Fifty Years Later: A Retrospective

The 1980 Moscow Olympics and my Family

Portrait painting of George Washington against a dark background

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

Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

Page from the Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper from Nov. 3, 1828

“The Die is Cast”: Early Texans Face the Comanches

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

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

Photograph of Clyde Rabb Littlefield standing next to a plaque memorializing his father

The Longhorns’ Resident Historian

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

Black and white image of Austin's Municipal Abattoir as it appeared in 1939

Austin’s Municipal Abattoir

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

Mark Metzler on Post-War Japan

Side-by-side image of Professor Hon Ming Yip and Professor Poshek Fu talking into microphones during a conference

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

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.”

Daguerreotype of Marinda Atkins (1809-1878), wife of Sebron Sneed, ca. 1849-1850 in an ornate gold frame

The Many Histories of South Austin: The Old Sneed Mansion

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

Gated entrance to Hyde Park in Austin, Texas in the 1890s featuring a trolley car to the left of the entrance

Austin’s First Electric Streetcar Era

“Her Program’s Progress”

Lady Bird Johnson interviewed by Michael Gillette

Einstein, Relativity and Myths

Papal Resignation: What the News Media Left Out

A Rare Phone Call from One President to Another

Philippa Levine on Eugenics Around the World

Screenshot of the homepage for The Death of Austin website

“The End of Austin” – A new online publication

Black and white portrait of Texas Governor Ann Richards

Women Shaping Texas in the Twentieth Century

Sarin Over Aleppo

An “Act of Justice”?

Work Left Undone: Emancipation was not Abolition

The Emancipation Proclamation reaches Savannah

1863 in 1963

Robyn Metcalfe on London’s 19th Century Meat Market

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

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

Blueprint of the architectural drawing of Garrison Hall at the University of Texas at Austin

An Architectural History of Garrison Hall

Hannah Adams: Historian of American Jews

Pussy Riot

William Faulkner: Not Even Past

Black and white image of covered wagons crossing the stone bridge at Antietam

Texans at Antietam: 150 Years Ago Today

H. W. Brands on Ulysses S. Grant

White House Forum on Latino Heritage

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

Erika Bsumek on Navajo Artisans at the Trading Post

Image of the McDonald Observatory sitting faraway on a shrub covered hill overlooking surrounding grasslands

From Marfa to Mauritania in Forty Years

Was Einstein Really Religious?

A Medieval Nun, Writing

A New History Journal Produced by Students

Bruce Hunt on Technology & Science in the 19th Century

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

Humanitarian Intervention Before YouTube

Yarico’s Story

Black Amateur Photography

The Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919

Julie Hardwick on the Early Modern French Family

Zimbabwe’s Hanging Tree

The Freedmen’s Bureau: Work After Emancipation

Competent Flutterbys and My Semester of Struggle

Voices of India’s Partition, Part V

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

Frank A. Guridy on the Transnational Black Diaspora

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

On Veterans’ Day: War Photos

Casta Paintings

The Strangest Dream – Reykjavik 1986

Voices of India’s Partition, Part II

Slavery, Work and Sexuality

Daina Ramey Berry on Slavery, Work and Sexuality

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”

Portrait of seventeenth-century century Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei

At the Debates: Rick Perry and Galileo

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

Flickers of the Past

Summer, Interrupted

Changing Course in Vietnam — or Not

David Oshinsky on Capital Punishment

Sounds of the Past #2

Black and white image of the completed Austin dam from the 1890s

The Rise and Fall of the Austin Dam

Tiffany Gill on Beauty Shop Politics

A Dangerous Idea

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 9 – Abortion Law in Texas

Joe Jamail Delivers 2011 Commencement Address

Black Loyalists and "The Book of Negroes" by Cassandra Pybus

Black Loyalists and “The Book of Negroes”

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 8 – Public Higher Education

Image of an Asian family from July 19, 1943 sitting on the edge of a fountain on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin

Family Outing in Austin, Texas

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s Puritan Conquistadors

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 7 – Medicaid

Naming and Picturing New World Nature

Three Hundred Sex Crimes

Americans and The Royal Wedding

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 6 – Betting on Gam(bl)ing

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 5 (continued) – School Finance

Yoav di-Capua on Egyptians Writing History

“What Would Jesus Do?”

Black and white image of Mary Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter gesturing with her left hand

Liz Carpenter: Texan

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 5 – School Finance

Normal Pictures in Abnormal Times

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 4 – Concealed Weapons

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

Let the Enslaved Testify

John Hope Franklin: An Appreciation

Black is Beautiful – And Profitable

Radio & Community

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 3 – Redistricting

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

Image looking down a valley of green shrubbery between two red-brown mountains

Big Bend – “Some sort of scenic beauty”

Image of the First Electric tower erected in Austin, 41st & Speedway, 1895

City Lights: Austin’s Historic Moonlight Towers

Propaganda or Progress?

H. W. Brands on the Rise of American Capitalism

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 2

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 1 – Budget Crises

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

Jacqueline Jones on Civil War Savannah

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