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Not Even Past

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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

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

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

Alexei Navalny’s Legacy and Anti-Putin Resistance

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 Weight Around My Neck

Saving History: Cultural Heritage, Preservation and Public Service

Notes from the Field

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

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

Black Women’s Academic Work is Not for the Taking

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

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

Professor Toyin Falola: Living and Globalizing the Humanities

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

Putin’s Effort to Make Conquest Acceptable Again

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

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

New Research: History Honors Projects

Engaging Communities: Emilio Zamora and the Work of the Historian

Alberto Torres Fuster, Artist, 1872-1922

The Death of Yukio Mishima, 50 Years On

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

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”

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

The Gilded Age roots of Trump’s Trade Philosophy

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

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

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

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

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

The Frontera Collection

The Anthropocene and Environmental History

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

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

Photography, Film Criticism, and Left Politics

Confucian Patriarchy and the Allure of Communism in China

The Spirit of Honorable Compromise

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

Standish Meacham and Multiculturalism in the Public University

Three-year-olds on the world stage

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

Dagmar Lieblova, Survivor

What Makes a Good History Blog?

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

On the “Polish Death Camps” Law

Studying the Vietnam War: How the Scholarship Has Changed

Commemorating 9/11 in 2017

The Impossible Presidency

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

Hatton Sumners and the Retirement of Supreme Court Justices

Why I Ban the Word “Feminism” from My Classes

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

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

Finding Hitler (in All the Wrong Places?)

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

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

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

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

The Museum of Sour Milk: History Lessons on Bulgarian Yogurt

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

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

Sanctuary Austin: 1980s and Today

The Sword and the Camera: Becoming ISIS

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

The War in Vietnam Revisited

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

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

Notes from the Field: The Murder of Boris Nemtsov

Notes from the Field: Northeast Japan after the Tsunami

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

Texas' New Social Studies Textbooks. Courtesy of Texas Tribune

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

The Global United States

Slavery in America: Back in the Headlines

Capitalism After Socialism in Cuba

Independence for Scotland? An Historical Perspective on the Scottish Referendum

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

#BringBackOurGirls: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria

Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

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

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

The Longhorns’ Resident Historian

Exploring the Silk Route

UT Gender Symposium: Women’s Bodies and Political Agendas

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

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

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

Screenshot of the homepage for The Death of Austin website

“The End of Austin” – A new online publication

Sarin Over Aleppo

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

Pussy Riot

White House Forum on Latino Heritage

Thinking About the Constitution

Historians and Health Care

Health Care: A Historical Snapshot

A New History Journal Produced by Students

Humanitarian Intervention Before YouTube

Competent Flutterbys and My Semester of Struggle

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

Winners! Student Essay Contest

Arab Autumn: Egypt Now

The Death of Qaddafi by Historians

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

A thoughtful historian on “The future of memory”

How Tall is Too Tall?

After September 11

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

Reading is Hard: Should We Give it Up?

Gunter Demnig’s “Stumbling Blocks”

Oil and Weapons in Gaddafi’s Libya

Summer, Interrupted

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

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 7 – Medicaid

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

“What Would Jesus Do?”

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

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

City Lights: Austin’s Historic Moonlight Towers

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

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