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Capitalism

The Gilded Age roots of Trump’s Trade Philosophy

by Marc-William Palen This article was originally published in The Washington Post on November 5, 2019 as The dangers of President Trump’s favorite word — reciprocity: The Gilded Age roots of Trump’s trade philosophy.  “ ‘Reciprocity’: my favorite word,” President Trump has stated time and again since becoming president. What he means by “reciprocity” is “fair trade” instead of free trade, […]

November 25, 2019

The Tiger

By Nathan Stone My mother’s father was a Presbyterian gentleman, one of the early Houstonians bent on making blue-collar Houston into a more respectable place. That was back in the 1920s. He had come down from Kentucky with his actress wife, my Irish Catholic grandmother, to start an advertising business in one of the classic […]

February 21, 2018

Cuba on Not Even Past

We have reported on Cuba regularly over the years and link below to all the articles in our archive.

November 28, 2016

US Survey Course: American Capitalism at home and abroad

During the summer of 2016, we will be bringing together our previously published articles, book reviews, and podcasts on key themes and periods in the history of the USA. Each grouping is designed to correspond to the core areas of the US History Survey Courses taken by undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin.

July 1, 2016

Sowing the Seeds of Communism: Corn Wars in the USA

Today we often associate hybrid or genetically modified corn with agricultural monopolies, big business, and capitalism, in the early Cold War some feared that the rise of hybrid corn would sow the seeds of Communism in the United States.

March 2, 2016

Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing of Europe

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference is about recognising the limitations of Western social science in explaining the historical experiences of political modernity in South Asia. Chakhrabarty offers a critique of the Enlightenment concepts of a universal human experience and of secular modernity.

November 25, 2015

Capitalism After Socialism in Cuba

The trip in Cuba from Trinidad to Havana was very hard, as our landlady misled us in order to make a commission off a local cab company.

October 6, 2014

The Public Historian

Native Literatures and Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Brief Historiography

October 14, 2019

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Books

The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus (2019)

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Digital History

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

October 16, 2019

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Films & Media

Ayka (Dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy, 2018)

October 02, 2019

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Texas

The Enslaved and the Blind: State Officials and Enslaved People in Austin, Texas

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