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Crime/Law

Piecing Together the Past: How Renaissance Scholars Reconstructed Ancient Athenian Law

The Weight Around My Neck

Memories of War: Japanese Borderlands Experiences during WWII

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

Bearing the Nation: Eugenics and Contentious Feminism in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Confronting Dictatorship: Jimmy Carter and Human Rights Diplomacy in Argentina

“We may expect nothing but shacks to be erected here”: An Environmental History of Downtown Austin’s Waterloo Park

“We may expect nothing but shacks to be erected here”: An Environmental History of Downtown Austin’s Waterloo Park

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

Primary Source: Notes for a Napoleonic Scandal

The McFarland Cuban Plantation Records

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

The Trial of the Juntas: Reckoning with State Violence in Argentina

The Trial of the Juntas: Reckoning with State Violence in Argentina

The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico

Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript Header Image

Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript

Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence (1909)

The Myth and the Massacre: A Murder on Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day

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

Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

Anti-Semitism in Poland after the Six-Day War, 1967-1969

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

Photograph of the first page of Julien Sidney Devereux, Sr.'s will

Documenting Slavery in East Texas: Transcripts from Monte Verdi

The Gilded Age roots of Trump’s Trade Philosophy

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

Romero

The Quilombo Activists’ Archive and Post-Custodial Preservation, Part II

White Women and the Economy of Slavery

The Defiant Heretic: The Scandal of Justa Mendez

In Defense of the Crime Story

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

Historians on Marriage and Sexuality in the United States

Picture of barbed wire fencing and buildings from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp

On the “Polish Death Camps” Law

Rodolfo Valentín González Pérez: An unusual disappearance

Hatton Sumners and the Retirement of Supreme Court Justices

Secrecy and Bureaucratic Distancing: Tracing Complaints through the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

From Postcard to Picasso: Nakedness on Display

Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

Magna Carta and Anglo-American Constitutionalism

View of the yard at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville, 1949

Reforming Prisons in Early Twentieth-century Texas

Notes from the Field: The Murder of Boris Nemtsov

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

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

Ned Kelley – Australian Folk Hero – in the News

Julie Hardwick on the Early Modern French Family

David Oshinsky on Capital Punishment

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

George on the Lege, Part 9 – Abortion Law in Texas

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George on the Lege, Part 8 – Public Higher Education

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George on the Lege, Part 7 – Medicaid

Three Hundred Sex Crimes

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

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George on the Lege, Part 5 (continued) – School Finance

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George on the Lege, Part 5 – School Finance

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George on the Lege, Part 4 – Concealed Weapons

Radio & Community

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George on the Lege, Part 3 – Redistricting

“Not Like Baghdad” – The Looting and Protection of Egypt’s Treasures

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Big Bend – “Some sort of scenic beauty”

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George on the Lege, Part 2

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George on the Lege, Part 1 – Budget Crises

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