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NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Archives & Blindness

Bridging the Archival Divide. Lessons from ‘Archiving Activism Freedom School’

Flawed Assertions and Questionable Evidence: A Critical Examination of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States

“Texas, Our Catholic Texas”?

From the Syllabus: Teaching the Practice of Early Modern Censorship in the Classroom

Remembering Carlos E. Castañeda: A Mexican Historian in Texas

Black Women’s Academic Work is Not for the Taking

Bloody History, Historical Recovery: Monica Muñoz Martinez and the Work of the Historian

Lecturing in Kherson: A One-Year Reflection on Maps, Occupations, and Russia’s War against Ukraine

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

From Nurslings of God to Soldiers of Christ: Gender and Childhood in Cistercian Spiritual Formation

Ghosts over the Water: How we designed a historical video game that takes players into 19th century Japan

Celebrating 200 Episodes of This Is Democracy: A Conversation about Conversations with Jeremi and Zachary Suri

NEP Faculty Feature - Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

NEP Faculty Feature: Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

The Public, Access, and the Archival Dimensions of Digital Humanities: An Introduction to the Work of Christina Wasson

The Public, Access, and the Archival Dimensions of Digital Humanities: An Introduction to the Work of Christina Wasson

Counter Archives and Archives of Resistance

Counter Archives and Archives of Resistance

Radical Collaboration: Brook Lillehaugen and the Ticha Project

Radical Collaboration: Brook Lillehaugen and the Ticha Project

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

Texas State Historical Association - “Teaching Texas History in an Age of Hyper Partisanship” and “Forgetting and Remembering: Why Does Searching for an Accurate Past Provoke Backlash?"

Texas State Historical Association – “Teaching Texas History in an Age of Hyper Partisanship” and “Forgetting and Remembering: Why Does Searching for an Accurate Past Provoke Backlash?”

Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Revolutionizing Latin American History with Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Revolutionizing Latin American History with Artificial Intelligence

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire

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

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

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

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

Unidos Marcharemos Adelante

Unidos Marcharemos Adelante

Institute for Historical Studies, Race and Caste Research theme, 2021-22

Climate in Context Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Conference Report

Climate in Context Conference Report

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Virtual Conference

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

“We Don’t Have to Boo It:” UT’s Black Lesbian Student Government President

New Research: History Honors Projects

Confessions of an Archives Convert: Reflecting on the Genaro García Collection

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented – Conference Program

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Bathsheba Demuth

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Naomi Oreskes

IHS Climate in Context – Pioneering Geoarchaeology: A Tribute to Dr. Karl W. Butzer

Banner image for the post An Inconvenient Past: Slavery at the Texas Governor's Mansion

An Inconvenient Past: Slavery at the Texas Governor’s Mansion

Introducing Planet Texas Header Image

IHS Climate in Context: Introducing Planet Texas 2050

Online Resources for the Study of Climate History and Suburban Life

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

IHS Climate in Context: New Scholarship on Climate, Plague, and the Medieval World

The Purpose of a History PHD: Lessons Learned from Career Diversity

Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Brian Stauffer

Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Eric Busch

New Books in Native American and Indigenous Studies You Need to Read on Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Navigating the PhD and Beyond: David Conrad

My Journey Through Career Diversity

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Teaching Texas History in a Time of Pandemic: Reflections on Online Teaching

IHS Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented

ClioVis: Description, Origin and Uses

The Sword and The Shield: A Conversation with Peniel E. Joseph (Part II)

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Collage of portraits of seven recent history phd graduates.

Our New History Ph.D.s

Immigration and Virologic Hysteria

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”

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

Old Orthodox Icons in Communist Bulgaria

Black and white image of the Neill-Cochran House

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

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

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

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

Building a Virtual City for the Classroom: Angkor

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

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

A black and white map of Austin, Texas focusing on the city's downtown area

Austin Historical Atlas: Mapping Austin’s Historical Markers

Map of Austin, Texas depicting the city's various neighborhoods

Austin Historical Atlas: Development During World War I

La Mujer Unidad: Cynthia Orozco (UT History Honors Graduate ‘80)

Standish Meacham and Multiculturalism in the Public University

Underground Santiago: Sweet Waters Grown Salty

An Anticipated Tragedy: Reflections on Brazil’s National Museum

Did the British Empire depend on separating Parents and Children?

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The Public Archive

My Alternative PhD in History

Digital Learning: Starting from Scratch

Digital Dividends

The Main Building at the University of Texas - Austin (via Wikimedia Commons).

Textbooks, Texas, and Discontent: The Fight against Inadequate Educational Resources

Restless Youth: The CIA, Socialist Humanism, and Yugoslavia’s 1968 Student Protests

Thinking in Public: Public Scholarship at UT Austin

Public and Digital: Doing History Now

New Digital Technologies Bring Ancient Roman Villas to Life

Lessons from London: what happens when universities place PhD students in museums?

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

On Flags, Monuments, and Historical Myths

A cartoon depicting three young school children one covering his mouth with a book, a girl covering her eyes with a book, and another boy covering his ears with two books

Another Perspective on the Texas Textbook Controversy

Dr. Benjamin Johnson; Dr. Monica Munoz Martinez; Dr. John Moran Gonzales; Dr. Trinidad Gonzales; and Dr. Sonia Hernandez

Latinas and Latinos: A Growing Presence in the Texas State Historical Association

Reading Magnum: A Photo Archive Gets a New Life

From the Humanities to the Digital Humanities: The New Archive (No. 20)

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

Reinventing Modern China

Texas' New Social Studies Textbooks. Courtesy of Texas Tribune

Texas is Adopting New History Textbooks: Maybe They Should Be Historically Accurate

The Global United States

Digital Visualization Workshop, Venice 2014: The New Archive (No. 17)

Civility and Speech in the Modern University, 200 Years Ago in Germany

Ten Things to Remember During Your Research Year

The Normandy Scholar Program on World War II

You Say You Want a Revolution? Reenacting History in the Classroom

“It is a Wide Road that Leads to War”

World War I: Teaching at the Museum

Image of the Aims and Purposed of the League of Latin American Citizens document from c. 1927

The Texas State Historical Association Launches the Tejano History Handbook Project

Selling ourselves short? PhDs Inside the Academy and Outside of the Professoriate

Penne Restad & Karl Miller on Teaching History

Digital History: A Primer (Part 2)

Digital History: A Primer (Part 1)

Black and white portrait of Texas Governor Ann Richards

Women Shaping Texas in the Twentieth Century

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New Partnership between Not Even Past and Teaching Texas

A Historian in Hong Kong: Living in the Future-Looking at the Past

“You have died of dysentery” – History According to Video Games

“Home Economics Training is for the Improvement of Home and Family Life?”: African American Women Professionals and Home Economics Training in Texas, 1930-1950

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Teaching Texas

Flickers of the Past

Joe Jamail Delivers 2011 Commencement Address

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 5 (continued) – School Finance

Yoav di-Capua on Egyptians Writing History

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George on the Lege, Part 5 – School Finance

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