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

Piecing Together the Past: How Renaissance Scholars Reconstructed Ancient Athenian Law

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

Alexei Navalny’s Legacy and Anti-Putin Resistance

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

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)

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

Picturing My Family: A World War II Odyssey

From Nurslings of God to Soldiers of Christ: Gender and Childhood in Cistercian Spiritual Formation

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

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

Rompiendo paréntesis: Erika Pani y el arte de la excepción Breaking Parentheses: Erika Pani and the Art of Exceptions

Putin’s Effort to Make Conquest Acceptable Again

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

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

Unboxing the Saints: A Curious Case from Early Modern Milan

Primary Source: English Martyrs on the Streets of Milan

New Research: History Honors Projects

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

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

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

HPS Talk: “Thomas L. DeLorme and the Transformation of Rehabilitative Medicine”, Dr Jan Todd

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Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript

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Primary Source: An Archbishop’s Lost Library Catalog

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

An Intimate History of the Twentieth Century

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

IHS Climate in Context: Exploring Scholarship on the Little Ice Age

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Road Rage

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

Anti-Semitism in Poland after the Six-Day War, 1967-1969

A Small Country Lost in the Files: Albania’s Absence in an American Archive

Old Orthodox Icons in Communist Bulgaria

Free Healthcare with a Price

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

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

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

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

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

Secrets of the Crypt

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

The Empire of the Dandelion: Environmental History in Al Crosby’s Footsteps

The Proletarian Dream: Working-class Culture in Modern Germany

Medieval Facial Hair in Major League Baseball

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

Dagmar Lieblova, Survivor

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

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

On the “Polish Death Camps” Law

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

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

The Bombing War and German Memory of WWII

A Deportation Story: Russia 1914

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

American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream

Media and Politics From the Prague Spring Archive

Looking Into the Katyn Massacre

Giordano Bruno and the Spirit that Moves the Earth

Sergei Eisenstein on “The Birth of a Nation”

Digital Learning: Starting from Scratch

Tatlin’s Fish: Art and Revolution in Everyday Life

An Apology for Propaganda

Restless Youth: The CIA, Socialist Humanism, and Yugoslavia’s 1968 Student Protests

The Museum of Sour Milk: History Lessons on Bulgarian Yogurt

Policing Art in Early Soviet Russia

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

Gravestone of Harris Rednick from a graveyard in Luling, Texas

History Revealed in a Very Small Place

Whose Classical Traditions?

From Postcard to Picasso: Nakedness on Display

American Zionism and Soviet Jews

Remembering Chernobyl

A New Fascist Revolution?

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

The Sword and the Camera: Becoming ISIS

Call Pest Control: The Bug Problem at the US Embassy in Moscow

New Digital Technologies Bring Ancient Roman Villas to Life

Walter Benjamin on Divine Violence

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

Vietnam between the United States and Yugoslavia

Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction

Foucault on Power, Bodies, and Discipline

Notes from the Field: From Feasts to Feats (or Feet) on the Coals

Gramsci on Hegemony

Louis Althusser on Interpellation, and the Ideological State Apparatus

Photographing the German Air War, 1939-1945

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)

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

Notes from the Field: The Murder of Boris Nemtsov

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

After WWII: George Kennan’s “Long Telegram”

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

Ghosts and the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror

Giving a life, winning a patrimony

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

Independence for Scotland? An Historical Perspective on the Scottish Referendum

The Normandy Scholar Program on World War II

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

Censorship in Surprising Places: Uncovering the Letters of Wilfred Owen

“It is a Wide Road that Leads to War”

World War I: Teaching at the Museum

Fools and Kings

The Tatars of Crimea: Ethnic Cleansing and Why History Matters

The 1980 Moscow Olympics and my Family

Parenting in Hard Times: Child Abandonment in Early Modern Europe

Kalashnikov’s Lawn Mower: The Man behind the Most Feared Gun in the World

A Historian Reads Machiavelli

When a Government Tells Historians How to Write and How to Teach

Papal Resignation: What the News Media Left Out

Robyn Metcalfe on London’s 19th Century Meat Market

Mary Neuburger on Tobacco & Smoking in Bulgaria

Election Fraud! Read All About It!

Exorcism

Napoleon in Russia, 1812

Cold War Smoke: Cigarettes Across Borders

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

Pussy Riot

Was Einstein Really Religious?

A Medieval Nun, Writing

Yarico’s Story

UT History at the AHA Annual Meeting

The Strangest Dream – Reykjavik 1986

More Looking at World War II

Looking at World War II

Lend-Lease

The “Einstein Letter” — A Tipping Point in History

Samuel Pepys Tweets

Order No. 227: Stalinist Methods and Victory on the Eastern Front

Gunter Demnig’s “Stumbling Blocks”

A Dangerous Idea

Naming and Picturing New World Nature

Three Hundred Sex Crimes

Americans and The Royal Wedding

Dividing by Nothing

Normal Pictures in Abnormal Times

A Medieval Vision

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