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NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Pensar el archivo hasta no ver. Ceguera y redes afectivas

The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World (IHS Book Talk)

Leaps of Fame: The Rise of Sam Patch and a Changing Industrial Landscape

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From Africa to Austin: Bondy Washington

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

Notes from the Field: Reflections on Dictatorship and Democracy in Argentina

Memories of War: Japanese Borderlands Experiences during WWII

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

Remembering LBJ: An Interview with Mark Atwood Lawrence

Picturing My Family: A World War II Odyssey

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

Introducing Picturing My Family: A New Visual Archive by Not Even Past

Professor Toyin Falola: Living and Globalizing the Humanities

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

NEP Faculty Feature - Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

NEP Faculty Feature: Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and the Queer History of the Old Clothes Scandal

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

Adriana Pacheco Roldán and Community Building

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

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

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

Archives and their Afterlives: Conversing with the Work of Kirsten Weld

Archives and their Afterlives: Conversing with the Work of Kirsten Weld

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

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

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

Primary Source: Notes for a Napoleonic Scandal

The McFarland Cuban Plantation Records

Engaging Communities: Emilio Zamora and the Work of the Historian

The Death of Yukio Mishima, 50 Years On

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

An Intimate History of the Twentieth Century

Fifty Years On: Remembering Gamal Abd al-Nasser

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)

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Indelibly Inked: Bodies, Tattoos, and Violence during Guatemala’s Civil War

Queering Postwar Marriage in the U.S.

Banner image of the post Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

The Odds are Stacked Against Us: Oral Histories of Black Healthcare in the U.S.

Dean Page Keeton and Academic Freedom at UT Austin: Three Archival Letters

Kusumoto Ine: A Remarkable Woman in Meiji Restoration Japan

Image of the painting A Ride for Liberty by Eastman Johnson from the Brooklyn Museum

Love in the Time of Texas Slavery

Black and white photograph of a headshot of Tom Ward

A Longhorn’s Life of Service: Tom Ward

Secrets of the Crypt

A print featuring a large map of San Antonio from the 19th century

Fandangos, Intemperance, and Debauchery

The Great Betrayal: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Arabs

Goddess of Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, American Radical

American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream

Stokely Carmichael: A Life

Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

Two Bowies, One Knife

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

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

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

Andrew Cox Marshall: Between Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Black and white photograph of members of the 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment recruited in Ohio during the Civil War

The Holland Family: An American Story

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

Censorship in Surprising Places: Uncovering the Letters of Wilfred Owen

Photograph of Clyde Rabb Littlefield standing next to a plaque memorializing his father

The Longhorns’ Resident Historian

Stephen F. Austin’s bookstore receipt

“For a Gunner”: A World War II Love Story

Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America

Passing for Portuguese: One Family’s Struggle with Race and Identity in America

Lady Bird Johnson, In Her Own Words

Lady Bird Johnson interviewed by Michael Gillette

Hannah Adams: Historian of American Jews

William Faulkner: Not Even Past

H. W. Brands on Ulysses S. Grant

Was Einstein Really Religious?

Zimbabwe’s Hanging Tree

Frank A. Guridy on the Transnational Black Diaspora

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

Black and white image of Mary Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter gesturing with her left hand

Liz Carpenter: Texan

John Hope Franklin: An Appreciation

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