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

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

Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field: The Strange Case of Thome Corea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire

In the Shadow of Vietnam: The United States and the Third World in the 1960s

In the Shadow of Vietnam: The United States and the Third World in the 1960s

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

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

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Bathsheba Demuth

The Death of Yukio Mishima, 50 Years On

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

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

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

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

Road Rage

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

Free Healthcare with a Price

Sky Pilot, How High Can You Fly

The Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

Kusumoto Ine: A Remarkable Woman in Meiji Restoration Japan

Building a Virtual City for the Classroom: Angkor

Secrets of the Crypt

Confucian Patriarchy and the Allure of Communism in China

Did the British Empire depend on separating Parents and Children?

How do we talk about Enoch? Enoch Powell, Race Relations, and Public History in Britain

Studying the Vietnam War: How the Scholarship Has Changed

China Today: Communism for Americans in the 1930s

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

The Last Hindu Emperor

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

50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese American Perspective

The War in Vietnam Revisited

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

History Museums: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

History Museums: Race, Eugenics, and Immigration in New York History Museums

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

Notes from the Field: Northeast Japan after the Tsunami

Reinventing Modern China

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: The Pope in Manila

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

Giving a life, winning a patrimony

Carved in Stone: What Architecture Can Tell Us about the Sectarian History of Islam

Indrani Chatterjee on Monasteries and Memory in Northeast India

Domesticating Ethnic Foods and Becoming American

The Lessons of History? Debating the Vietnam and Iraq Wars

Exploring the Silk Route

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

CIA Study: “Consequences to the US of Communist Domination of Mainland Southeast Asia,” October 13, 1950

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

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

Voices of India’s Partition, Part II: Mr. S.M. Mehdi

Voices of India’s Partition, Part II

The Death of Qaddafi by Historians

The Atomic Bombs and the End of World War II: Tracking an Elusive Decision

Changing Course in Vietnam — or Not

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

Dividing by Nothing

Voices of India’s Partition, Part I

Voices of India’s Partition, Part I: Mrs. Zahra Haider

LBJ and Vietnam: A Conversation

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