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Memory

“Muhammad’s Law” in Latin America: Outlining Historiographical Legacies of Early Modern Atlantic Islam

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

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Archives & Blindness

13 Ways of Looking: JFK’s Missing Wreath

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

Notes from the Field: Crnojević’s Shelves. Exploratory research in the archives of Montenegro

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Procesados e interrogados. Encontrando las voces de los Yaqui en los archivos judiciales de Sonora

The bold political style of Luciano Cruz: The Chilean student protests of 1967

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

The 1878 Total Eclipse and Texas Curiosities

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

The Weight Around My Neck

Saving History: Cultural Heritage, Preservation and Public Service

“Texas, Our Catholic Texas”?

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Two Bombings, Two Movies: From Hiroshima to Grave of the Fireflies

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

Remembering Rio Speedway

The Merchant, the Marriage, and the Treaty Port: Reassessing Ōura Kei

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

Una conversación con la Dra. Silvia Arrom/ A Conversation with Dr. Silvia Arrom

Teaching Slavery, Possibilities for Historical Restitution, and the Papers of Indigenous Enslaver Rebecca McIntosh Hawkins Hagerty

Lessons from the Grave

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

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?”

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

Primary Source: Notes for a Napoleonic Scandal

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

Refusing to Forget

Engaging Communities: Emilio Zamora and the Work of the Historian

The Death of Yukio Mishima, 50 Years On

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

When Ghost Towns Lack Ghosts

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

Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence (1909)

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

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

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

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

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”

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

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

The Gilded Age roots of Trump’s Trade Philosophy

The Odds are Stacked Against Us: Oral Histories of Black Healthcare in the U.S.

Sky Pilot, How High Can You Fly

History Between Memory and Reconstruction

The Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

Romero

José and His Brothers

It’s in Their Blood

“Stand With Kap”: Athlete Activism at the LBJ Library

“Stand With Kap”: Athlete Activism at the LBJ Library

Monumental Reinterpretation

An Anticipated Tragedy: Reflections on Brazil’s National Museum

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

Miss O’Keeffe

Dagmar Lieblova, Survivor

“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

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

On the “Polish Death Camps” Law

The Bombing War and German Memory of WWII

Commemorating 9/11 in 2017

Too Much Inclusion? Museo Casa de la Memoria, Medellín, Colombia

Examining Race in Appleton, WI

The Last Hindu Emperor

Gravestone of Harris Rednick from a graveyard in Luling, Texas

History Revealed in a Very Small Place

The Old Oakwood Cemetery Austin, Texas, United States. Via Wikipedia.

Reconstruction in Austin: The Unknown Soldiers

Remembering Chernobyl

Image of the front page of Jim Hogg County Enterprise (Hebbronville, TX), March 9, 1939.

A Gold Mine in a Silver Edition: Jim Hogg County, March 9, 1939

50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese American Perspective

The War in Vietnam Revisited

History Museums: The Center for Memory, Peace, and Reconciliation, Bogotá, Colombia

Remembering the Iran-Iraq War

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

Old Sorrel hair

The Curious Life of General Jackson’s Horse’s Hair

History Museums: The Hall of Never Again

Black and white image of the house of the first Confederate family in Americana in Brazil

Confederados: The Texans of Brazil

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

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

Carved in Stone: What Architecture Can Tell Us about the Sectarian History of Islam

The End of the Lost Generation of World War I: Last Person Standing

Passover 1934: An American Jewish Family Story

Indrani Chatterjee on Monasteries and Memory in Northeast India

The 1980 Moscow Olympics and my Family

Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

Peter Dean, Dallas Chaos, 1981, oil on canvas, 68 x 72 3/16 in., Blanton Museum of Art, Gift of Lorraine Dean and Gregory Dean, 1994

Dallas Chaos: Art and the JFK Assassination

Braided History

“For a Gunner”: A World War II Love Story

Passing for Portuguese: One Family’s Struggle with Race and Identity in America

Historians Reflect on the March on Washington, August 28, 1963

Daguerreotype of Marinda Atkins (1809-1878), wife of Sebron Sneed, ca. 1849-1850 in an ornate gold frame

The Many Histories of South Austin: The Old Sneed Mansion

Was Iraq War Worth It? 10 Years after Invasion, It’s Too Early to Know

Screenshot of the homepage for The Death of Austin website

“The End of Austin” – A new online publication

1863 in 1963

Black and white image of covered wagons crossing the stone bridge at Antietam

Texans at Antietam: 150 Years Ago Today

Voices of India’s Partition, Part V

Voices of India’s Partition, Part V: Professor Mohammad Amin

Voices of India’s Partition, Part IV

Voices of India’s Partition, Part IV: Professor Masood ul Hasan

Voices of India’s Partition, Part III: Professor Irfan Habib

Voices of India’s Partition, Part III

Voices of India’s Partition, Part II: Mr. S.M. Mehdi

Voices of India’s Partition, Part II

Debating the Causes of the Civil War

A thoughtful historian on “The future of memory”

How Tall is Too Tall?

After September 11

Seeing 9/11: The Falling Man Photograph

An Ode to a High School History Teacher: Or, What 9/11 Means to Me Today

September 11, 2001

Gunter Demnig’s “Stumbling Blocks”

Black and white image of the completed Austin dam from the 1890s

The Rise and Fall of the Austin Dam

Let the Enslaved Testify

Voices of India’s Partition, Part I

Voices of India’s Partition, Part I: Mrs. Zahra Haider

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