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Art/Architecture

13 Ways of Looking: JFK’s Missing Wreath

Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso (IHS Book Talk)

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

The Weight Around My Neck

“We Didn’t Have to Ask Permission”: UT’s 1960s Hidden Gay Oasis

Lessons from the Grave

Local Memory: Telling Austin’s Musical History

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)

Casta Paintings

NEP Second Edition: Casta Paintings

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

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

Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Viewing Juan de Miranda’s Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Viewing Juan de Miranda’s Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Hidden in Plain (Virtual) Sight: Searching for a Lost Portrait of Sor Juana by Juan de Miranda and Finding a Photograph of it in a Digital Archive

Hidden in Plain (Virtual) Sight: Searching for a Lost Portrait of Sor Juana by Juan de Miranda and Finding a Photograph of it in a Digital Archive

Primary Source: Hares in the Margins of Judgment Day

The Death of Yukio Mishima, 50 Years On

When Ghost Towns Lack Ghosts

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

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”

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

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

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

The Proletarian Dream: Working-class Culture in Modern Germany

Photography, Film Criticism, and Left Politics

Three-year-olds on the world stage

Monumental Reinterpretation

Civil War and Daily Life: Snapshots of the Early War in Guatemala

Miss O’Keeffe

Demystifying “Cool:” A Brief History

Dorothy Parker Loved the Funnies

The Bombing War and German Memory of WWII

Digital Learning: Starting from Scratch

Tatlin’s Fish: Art and Revolution in Everyday Life

Policing Art in Early Soviet Russia

From Postcard to Picasso: Nakedness on Display

On the Performance Front: Internationalism and US Theatre

Painters, Pigments, and the Making of the Florentine Codex

New Digital Technologies Bring Ancient Roman Villas to Life

On Flags, Monuments, and Historical Myths

Reading Magnum: A Photo Archive Gets a New Life

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

Notes from the Field: The Pope in Manila

Sculpture and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

The Countess’s Cats

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

Peter Dean, Dallas Chaos, 1981, oil on canvas, 68 x 72 3/16 in., Blanton Museum of Art, Gift of Lorraine Dean and Gregory Dean, 1994

Dallas Chaos: Art and the JFK Assassination

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

Black and white portrait of Texas Governor Ann Richards

Women Shaping Texas in the Twentieth Century

Blueprint of the architectural drawing of Garrison Hall at the University of Texas at Austin

An Architectural History of Garrison Hall

Failed Enlightenment: Urban Design and French Modernity in Beirut

Karl Hagstrom Miller on Segregating Southern Pop Music

Casta Paintings

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

City Lights: Austin’s Historic Moonlight Towers

Propaganda or Progress?

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