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Ideas/Intellectual History

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Pensar el archivo hasta no ver. Ceguera y redes afectivas

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

The 1878 Total Eclipse and Texas Curiosities

Notes from the Field: Reflections on Dictatorship and Democracy in Argentina

“Texas, Our Catholic Texas”?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Diversity, National Identity, and the Fraught History Behind the State Department’s Search for Diplomats Who “Look Like America”

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

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

Black Women’s History in the US: Past & Present

New Research: History Honors Projects

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Bathsheba Demuth

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

When Ghost Towns Lack Ghosts

Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence (1909)

IHS Climate in Context: Analyzing Trees as Historical Evidence

An Intimate History of the Twentieth Century

IHS Climate in Context: Lessons from the Plague: Looking to the Historical Record

IHS Climate in Context: Earth and Outer Space in Environmental History

IHS Climate in Context: Understanding Resilience in the History of Climate Change

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Road Rage

Old Orthodox Icons in Communist Bulgaria

Free Healthcare with a Price

Yugoslavia in the Third World: Not a New Bloc but Unity of Action in the Interest of Peace

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

Presenting Prague Spring to the West: Czechoslovak Life and Socialism with a Human Face

Sky Pilot, How High Can You Fly

José and His Brothers

Crafting a Republic for the World in 19th-Century Colombia

The Proletarian Dream: Working-class Culture in Modern Germany

Confucian Patriarchy and the Allure of Communism in China

Standish Meacham and Multiculturalism in the Public University

The Great Betrayal: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Arabs

Demystifying “Cool:” A Brief History

The Bombing War and German Memory of WWII

The Last Hindu Emperor

An Apology for Propaganda

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

Whose Classical Traditions?

A New Fascist Revolution?

Childhood Has a History

Walter Benjamin on Divine Violence

Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction

Foucault on Power, Bodies, and Discipline

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

Gramsci on Hegemony

Louis Althusser on Interpellation, and the Ideological State Apparatus

Reinventing Modern China

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia

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

Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

A Historian Reads Machiavelli

Mark Metzler on Post-War Japan

UT History at the AHA Annual Meeting

Reading is Hard: Should We Give it Up?

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

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