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1400s to 1700s

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

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

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

The Fellowship of the Tree Rings: A ClioVis Project

Notes from the Field: The Strange Case of Thome Corea

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

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

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

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

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

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

Casta Paintings

NEP Second Edition: Casta Paintings

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

Unboxing the Saints: A Curious Case from Early Modern Milan

Primary Source: English Martyrs on the Streets of Milan

New Research: History Honors Projects

Primary Source: Hares in the Margins of Judgment Day

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

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

Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript Header Image

Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript

Primary Source: An Archbishop's Lost Library Catalog Header Image

Primary Source: An Archbishop’s Lost Library Catalog

Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence (1909)

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

Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire

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

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

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?

Monsoon Islam: An interview with Sebastian Prange

Technology in Paper: Interactive Design in Early Printed Books

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

The Anthropocene and Environmental History

Secrets of the Crypt

The Defiant Heretic: The Scandal of Justa Mendez

Underground Santiago: Sweet Waters Grown Salty

Medieval Facial Hair in Major League Baseball

Did Race and Racism Exist in the Middle Ages?

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

The Impossible Presidency

Giordano Bruno and the Spirit that Moves the Earth

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

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

Whose Classical Traditions?

Painters, Pigments, and the Making of the Florentine Codex

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

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

Magna Carta and Anglo-American Constitutionalism

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

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

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

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

Ghosts and the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

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

Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an

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

Fools and Kings

Indrani Chatterjee on Monasteries and Memory in Northeast India

Parenting in Hard Times: Child Abandonment in Early Modern Europe

Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

A Historian Reads Machiavelli

Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America

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

Papal Resignation: What the News Media Left Out

History is Messy Work. And That’s OK.

Exorcism

A Medieval Nun, Writing

Yarico’s Story

Julie Hardwick on the Early Modern French Family

Casta Paintings

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

Samuel Pepys Tweets

A Dangerous Idea

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

Black Loyalists and “The Book of Negroes”

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s Puritan Conquistadors

Naming and Picturing New World Nature

Three Hundred Sex Crimes

Yoav di-Capua on Egyptians Writing History

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

A Medieval Vision

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