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Medieval Facial Hair in Major League Baseball

Medieval Facial Hair in Major League Baseball

by Guy Raffa What is it with baseball players and whiskers? The 2013 Red Sox perfected the art of beard-bonding on the way to their third World Series championship in ten years. Boston players and their fans rallied around what Christopher Oldstone-Moore calls the “quest beard” in his history of facial hair, Of Beards and […]

October 8, 2018

You’re Teaching WHAT?

You’re Teaching WHAT?

Cross-posted from Chris Rose’s blog, where he regularly tells us Important and Useful Things and makes us laugh along the way. In addition to his many other accomplishments, Chris is the brains and motor behind our podcast 15 Minute History. by Christopher Rose Ladies and Gentleman, I give you … Terrorism and Extremist Movements. Ta-Da!The reaction […]

September 3, 2018

Dagmar Lieblova, Survivor

Dagmar Lieblova, Survivor

by Dennis Darling Dagmar Lieblova was a child prisoner at Terezín, deported to Auschwitz, then dispatched as slave labor to Hamburg, a city then in the daily cross-hairs of Allied bombers. There she cleared the streets of debris from the previous night’s air raids. Dagmar was finally liberated, sitting among the dead, by British troops […]

April 12, 2018

Notes From the Field: Bulgaria’s Tolstoyan Vegetarians

Notes From the Field: Bulgaria’s Tolstoyan Vegetarians

by Mary Neuburger It seemed like a bad idea at the time, but I did it anyway. Maybe, just maybe, there was hope that the little museum in the Bulgarian mountain village of Yasna Polyana would be open. Established in 1998, the museum contained the intellectual remnants of the Bulgarian Tolstoyan community, who had created […]

February 26, 2018

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

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

By Christopher Rose Editor’s Note: To accompany this year’s Institute for Historical Studies theme and the theme of our film series Faces of Migration, Not Even Past will be showcasing a series of posts featuring graduate students working on topics related to migration, exile or displacement. Nearly every historian can attest to the fact that working in the […]

October 12, 2017

A Deportation Story: Russia 1914

A Deportation Story: Russia 1914

On the same day the President of the United States announced that he was ending DACA (the program that provides some immigrants who were brought to the US as minors protection from deportation and eligibility for a work permit), this moving essay appeared on the Russian History Blog, which we re-post with their permission. In the context of our […]

September 6, 2017

Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Films

Faces of Migration: Classic and Contemporary Films

The NEP film series, Faces of Migration, will kick off Tuesday September 5 at 7pm in CLA on the UT Austin campus. Films are free and open to the public. Each film will be introduced by a faculty member who will lead a discussion after the screening. Share widely and Come join the discussion. SEE […]

September 1, 2017

Digital Teaching: Mapping Networks Across Avant-Garde Magazines

Digital Teaching: Mapping Networks Across Avant-Garde Magazines

By Meghan Forbes In “The European Avant-Garde in Print” (REE 325), students explored the unique and vibrant print culture in Central Europe between the two world wars and the social and political context that produced it. I sought to expose students to the networked qualities of magazines that were published in Czech, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, […]

May 31, 2017

Digital Teaching: The Stalinist Purges on Video

Digital Teaching: The Stalinist Purges on Video

This short documentary film was produced by a team of 5 students in Introduction to Russian, East, European and Eurasian Studies (REE310).

April 19, 2017

Media and Politics From the Prague Spring Archive

Media and Politics From the Prague Spring Archive

By Ian Goodale In an unpublished letter to the Soviet daily newspaper Izvestiia, Liudmila Chukovskaya wrote that “muteness has always been the support of despotism.” This quote is cited in the booklet, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Public, compiled by the Radio Liberty Committee in New York in August 1968 to analyze the coverage of the Soviet invasion of […]

March 27, 2017

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