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

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

The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019

A Lager Beer Revolution: The History of Beer and German American Immigration

Saving History: Cultural Heritage, Preservation and Public Service

Fear and Lust in the Desert, or How Lies, Deception, and Trickery Made California a Date Palm Monopoly

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

A Taste of Brazil: How Guaraná Soda Became a National Icon

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

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)

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

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

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

The McFarland Cuban Plantation Records

Primary Source: English Martyrs on the Streets of Milan

IHS Climate in Context - Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

IHS Climate in Context – Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire

Monsoon Islam: An interview with Sebastian Prange

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Free Healthcare with a Price

Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and Urban Slavery

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

His Whaleship: The Stories of Real, Authentic, Dead Whales

The Gilded Age roots of Trump’s Trade Philosophy

Rising From the Ashes: The Oklahoma Eagle and its Long Road to Preservation

The Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

José and His Brothers

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

White Women and the Economy of Slavery

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

Goddess of Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, American Radical

Industrial Sexuality: Gender in a Small Town in Egypt

The Price for their Pound of Flesh

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

Picture of a market stall in São Pedro, Brazil

History and Advocacy: Brazil in Turmoil

Mapping Newcomers in Buenos Aires, 1928

Image of the front page of Jim Hogg County Enterprise (Hebbronville, TX), March 9, 1939.

A Gold Mine in a Silver Edition: Jim Hogg County, March 9, 1939

Neiman Marcus building from a postcard circa 1920

Carrie Marcus Neiman: A Pioneer in Ready to Wear

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

Boomtown, USA: An Historical Look at Fracking

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

Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

Pipelines along Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Standard Oil in Louisiana

Black and white image of Austin's Municipal Abattoir as it appeared in 1939

Austin’s Municipal Abattoir

Mark Metzler on Post-War Japan

Gated entrance to Hyde Park in Austin, Texas in the 1890s featuring a trolley car to the left of the entrance

Austin’s First Electric Streetcar Era

Black and white portrait of Texas Governor Ann Richards

Women Shaping Texas in the Twentieth Century

An “Act of Justice”?

Robyn Metcalfe on London’s 19th Century Meat Market

Cold War Smoke: Cigarettes Across Borders

Erika Bsumek on Navajo Artisans at the Trading Post

Black and white image of the completed Austin dam from the 1890s

The Rise and Fall of the Austin Dam

Tiffany Gill on Beauty Shop Politics

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 8 – Public Higher Education

Interior view of the Texas State Capital Building looking up into the building's dome

George on the Lege, Part 6 – Betting on Gam(bl)ing

Black is Beautiful – And Profitable

H. W. Brands on the Rise of American Capitalism

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