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Empire

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Tips for using PARES (Portal de Archivos Estatales)

An Overlooked Success: How the Failed Annexation of Santo Domingo led to the Successful Prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: An experiential approach to the Archive of the Indies

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

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

The Fellowship of the Tree Rings: A ClioVis Project

Notes from the Field: The Strange Case of Thome Corea

In Pursuit of Europe: An Interview with Anthony Pagden (Part II)

In Pursuit of Europe: An Interview with Anthony Pagden (Part I)

Remembering Carlos E. Castañeda: A Mexican Historian in Texas

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

Early Modern and Colonial Histories of Globalization: An Interview with Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (Part II)

Early Modern and Colonial Histories of Globalization: An Interview with Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (Part I)

“Yellow Peril” and Naval Power: Richmond P. Hobson and the Racist Imagination of American National Security

Introducing “Uncharted Waters,” a New Article Series from Not Even Past and the Clements Center for National Security

A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory

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

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

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

The McFarland Cuban Plantation Records

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

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

To Rule the Waves: Britain’s Cable Empire and the Birth of Global Communications

Writing Global Ecological History ‘From Below’: An Interview with Gregory Cushman

Refusing to Forget

“Though she wasn’t a man, she was as good as one”: Labor, Seapower, and Nineteenth-Century Seafaring Stewardesses

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

The Vanishing American Century?

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

Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire

Fifty Years On: Remembering Gamal Abd al-Nasser

The War in Afghanistan is Nineteen Years Old: What Can it Teach us about Violence in American History?

IHS Climate in Context: Exploring Scholarship on the Little Ice Age

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

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

A Small Country Lost in the Files: Albania’s Absence in an American Archive

Sky Pilot, How High Can You Fly

The Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

Romero

Building a Virtual City for the Classroom: Angkor

The Empire of the Dandelion: Environmental History in Al Crosby’s Footsteps

An image of the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty of 1847

Letter to the Editor: Remarks on Jesse Ritner’s “Paying for Peace: Reflections on the ‘Lasting Peace’ Monument.”

Underground Santiago: Sweet Waters Grown Salty

Monumental Reinterpretation

Civil War and Daily Life: Snapshots of the Early War in Guatemala

Did the British Empire depend on separating Parents and Children?

The Gods of Indian Country

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

The Great Betrayal: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Arabs

“Lasting Peace” - Statue at Peace Garden, commemorating the peace treaty between settler John Meusebach and Chief Santa Anna of the Comanche Indians (via City-Data)

Paying for Peace: Reflections on the “Lasting Peace” Monument

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

A Deportation Story: Russia 1914

Arguing about Empire: The Dreyfus Affair and the Fashoda Crisis, 1898

Antonio de Ulloa’s Relación Histórica del Viage a la America Meridional

My Alternative PhD in History

#changethedate: Australia’s Holiday Controversy

The Last Hindu Emperor

An Apology for Propaganda

Stokely Carmichael: A Life

Acapulco-Manila: the Galleon, Asia and Latin America, 1565-1815

The War in Vietnam Revisited

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

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

Glimpsed in the Archive and Known no More: One Indian Slave’s Tale

Catholic Borderlands

Comanche Feats of Horsemanship by George Catlin 1834. Via Wikimedia Commons.

“The Battle of Bandera Pass and the Making of Lone Star Legend”

Facing North from Inca Country: Entanglement, Hybridity, and Rewriting Atlantic History

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

Giving a life, winning a patrimony

The Revolution will televise football

The Tatars of Crimea: Ethnic Cleansing and Why History Matters

Page from the Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper from Nov. 3, 1828

“The Die is Cast”: Early Texans Face the Comanches

Ned Kelley – Australian Folk Hero – in the News

Erika Bsumek on Navajo Artisans at the Trading Post

Yarico’s Story

Zimbabwe’s Hanging Tree

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s Puritan Conquistadors

Naming and Picturing New World Nature

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

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