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

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

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

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

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

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

“Texas, Our Catholic Texas”?

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

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

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

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

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

Putin’s Effort to Make Conquest Acceptable Again

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

Lessons from the Grave

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

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

“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

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

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

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

Black Cowboys: An American Story

Black Cowboys: An American Story

Casta Paintings

NEP Second Edition: Casta Paintings

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 (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

Primary Source: Notes for a Napoleonic Scandal

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

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

New Research: History Honors Projects

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

The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico

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

Salvation, Science and Synthetic Rubber

Primary Source: Getty McGuire's Botanical Basics Header Image

Primary Source: Getty McGuire’s Botanical Basics

Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence (1909)

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?

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”

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

Black and white image of Lizzie Scott Neblett

A (Queer) Rebel Wife In Texas

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

Documenting Slavery in East Texas: Transcripts from Monte Verdi

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

Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

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 Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

Kusumoto Ine: A Remarkable Woman in Meiji Restoration Japan

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

Love in the Time of Texas Slavery

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

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

It’s in Their Blood

The Anthropocene and Environmental History

White Women and the Economy of Slavery

The Proletarian Dream: Working-class Culture in Modern Germany

The Spirit of Honorable Compromise

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.”

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

Fandangos, Intemperance, and Debauchery

Underground Santiago: Sweet Waters Grown Salty

Did the British Empire depend on separating Parents and Children?

Who Put Native American Sign Language in the US Mail?

The Gods of Indian Country

Cynthia Attaquin and a Wampanoag Network of Petitioners

Death, Danger, and Identity at 12,000 Feet

Missing Signatures: The Archives at First Glance

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

Goddess of Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, American Radical

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

The Impossible Presidency

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

Hatton Sumners and the Retirement of Supreme Court Justices

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

The Price for their Pound of Flesh

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

Longfellow’s Great Liberators: Abraham Lincoln and Dante Alighieri

An Apology for Propaganda

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

The Museum of Sour Milk: History Lessons on Bulgarian Yogurt

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

Reconstruction in Austin: The Unknown Soldiers

Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

Two Bowies, One Knife

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

Old Sorrel hair

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

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

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

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

Confederados: The Texans of Brazil

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

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

The Global United States

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

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

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

The Countess’s Cats

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

Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an

The Tatars of Crimea: Ethnic Cleansing and Why History Matters

Indrani Chatterjee on Monasteries and Memory in Northeast India

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

Braided History

Stephen F. Austin’s bookstore receipt

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

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

Philippa Levine on Eugenics Around the World

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

Ned Kelley – Australian Folk Hero – in the News

Napoleon in Russia, 1812

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

Hannah Adams: Historian of American Jews

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

Erika Bsumek on Navajo Artisans at the Trading Post

Bruce Hunt on Technology & Science in the 19th Century

Zimbabwe’s Hanging Tree

The Freedmen’s Bureau: Work After Emancipation

On Veterans’ Day: War Photos

Slavery, Work and Sexuality

Daina Ramey Berry on Slavery, Work and Sexuality

Debating the Causes of the Civil War

Sounds of the Past #2

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

George on the Lege, Part 8 – Public Higher Education

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

Yoav di-Capua on Egyptians Writing History

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

Liz Carpenter: Texan

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

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

City Lights: Austin’s Historic Moonlight Towers

H. W. Brands on the Rise of American Capitalism

Jacqueline Jones on Civil War Savannah

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