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

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

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

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

Remembering Carlos E. Castañeda: A Mexican Historian in Texas

“Free Walter Collins!”: Black Draft Resistance and Prisoner Defense Campaigns during the Vietnam War

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

Bloody History, Historical Recovery: Monica Muñoz Martinez and the Work of the Historian

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

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

Picturing My Family: A World War II Odyssey

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

Picturing My Family: Fathers and Sons

“Placenta (Human)”: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Women’s Work at Sea

Professor Toyin Falola: Living and Globalizing the Humanities

Confronting Dictatorship: Jimmy Carter and Human Rights Diplomacy in Argentina

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

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

Early Modern and Colonial Histories of Globalization: An Interview with Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (Part II)

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

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

Early Modern and Colonial Histories of Globalization: An Interview with Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (Part I)

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

Teaching Slavery, Possibilities for Historical Restitution, and the Papers of Indigenous Enslaver Rebecca McIntosh Hawkins Hagerty

La XVI Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México en la Historia / XVI Meeting of International Historians of Mexico in History

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

Lessons from the Grave

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

Diversity, National Identity, and the Fraught History Behind the State Department’s Search for Diplomats Who “Look Like America”

Counter Archives and Archives of Resistance

Counter Archives and Archives of Resistance

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

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

Radical Collaboration: Brook Lillehaugen and the Ticha Project

Radical Collaboration: Brook Lillehaugen and the Ticha Project

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

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

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

The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire

Roundtable: Effects of COVID on the Chinese Diaspora in North America

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

HPS Talk: How the Histories of Medicine and Public Health Have Fared in the Media During Covid-19

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

The McFarland Cuban Plantation Records

Institute for Historical Studies, Race and Caste Research theme, 2021-22

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

Climate in Context Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Conference Report

Climate in Context Conference Report

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Virtual Conference

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

Introducing the Material History Workshop

New Research: History Honors Projects

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

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

Writing Global Ecological History ‘From Below’: An Interview with Gregory Cushman

Refusing to Forget

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented – Conference Program

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Bathsheba Demuth

IHS Climate in Context – Pioneering Geoarchaeology: A Tribute to Dr. Karl W. Butzer

Engaging Communities: Emilio Zamora and the Work of the Historian

“Though she wasn’t a man, she was as good as one”: Labor, Seapower, and Nineteenth-Century Seafaring Stewardesses

Primary Source: Patronage and Power in Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Court

Primary Source: Patronage and Power in Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Court

IHS Climate in Context: Environments and Borders: Where Do We Draw the Lines?

HPS Talk – “Vannevar Bush and Cold War Science Policy,” by Johnny Miri

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

IHS Climate in Context – Can We Leave It All Behind?

Primary Source: Getty McGuire's Botanical Basics Header Image

Primary Source: Getty McGuire’s Botanical Basics

The Vanishing American Century?

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

IHS Climate in Context: New Scholarship on Climate, Plague, and the Medieval World

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

Fifty Years On: Remembering Gamal Abd al-Nasser

IHS Climate in Context: Lessons from the Plague: Looking to the Historical Record

The War in Afghanistan is Nineteen Years Old: What Can it Teach us about Violence in American History?

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

IHS Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented

Monsoon Islam: An interview with Sebastian Prange

The Sword and The Shield: A Conversation with Peniel E. Joseph (Part II)

The Sword and The Shield: A Conversation with Peniel E. Joseph (Part I)

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

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

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

The Gilded Age roots of Trump’s Trade Philosophy

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

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

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

Black and white photograph of a headshot of Tom Ward

A Longhorn’s Life of Service: Tom Ward

The Anthropocene and Environmental History

“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

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

The Gods of Indian Country

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

The Great Betrayal: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Arabs

“Lasting Peace” - Statue at Peace Garden, commemorating the peace treaty between settler John Meusebach and Chief Santa Anna of the Comanche Indians (via City-Data)

Paying for Peace: Reflections on the “Lasting Peace” Monument

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

Cuba’s Revolutionary World

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

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

Black and white photograph of Mexican president, Plutarco Elias Calles standing with members of the Apostolic Mexican Catholic Church

A Texas Historian’s Perspective on Mexican State Anticlericalism

American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream

Industrial Sexuality: Gender in a Small Town in Egypt

Stokely Carmichael: A Life

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

Muhammad Ali Helped Make Black Power into a Global Brand

Whose Classical Traditions?

From Postcard to Picasso: Nakedness on Display

On the Performance Front: Internationalism and US Theatre

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

Sanctuary Austin: 1980s and Today

The Sword and the Camera: Becoming ISIS

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

The War in Vietnam Revisited

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

Climate Change in History

Dr. Benjamin Johnson; Dr. Monica Munoz Martinez; Dr. John Moran Gonzales; Dr. Trinidad Gonzales; and Dr. Sonia Hernandez

Latinas and Latinos: A Growing Presence in the Texas State Historical Association

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

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

A Graphic Revolution: The New Archive (No. 19)

Reinventing Modern China

The letters were written in Spanish and are my own translation. All of the letters and images are from: Francisco A. Chapa Family Papers, MS 405, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.

A Father’s Love: Francois LaBorde’s Letters

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

Confederados: The Texans of Brazil

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

Catholic Borderlands

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

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

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

After WWII: George Kennan’s “Long Telegram”

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

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

The Revolution will televise football

The Normandy Scholar Program on World War II

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

Sixteen Months in a Leaky Boat

The 1980 Moscow Olympics and my Family

Domesticating Ethnic Foods and Becoming American

The Lessons of History? Debating the Vietnam and Iraq Wars

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

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

UT Gender Symposium: Women’s Bodies and Political Agendas

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

Was Iraq War Worth It? 10 Years after Invasion, It’s Too Early to Know

Philippa Levine on Eugenics Around the World

Sarin Over Aleppo

Robyn Metcalfe on London’s 19th Century Meat Market

Mary Neuburger on Tobacco & Smoking in Bulgaria

Erika Bsumek on Navajo Artisans at the Trading Post

A New History Journal Produced by Students

Humanitarian Intervention Before YouTube

Yarico’s Story

The Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919

Frank A. Guridy on the Transnational Black Diaspora

Iran’s Nuclear Program and the History of the IAEA

UT History at the AHA Annual Meeting

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

Winners! Student Essay Contest

Rethinking Borders: Salman Rushdie & Sebastião Salgado on the US-Mexico Border

On Veterans’ Day: War Photos

Casta Paintings

Lend-Lease

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

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s Puritan Conquistadors

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

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