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

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

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NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Prosecuted and interrogated. Finding the voices of the Yaqui in the judicial archives of Sonora

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

Alexei Navalny’s Legacy and Anti-Putin Resistance

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

The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019

Loosening the Grid: Ideas for Mapping the Human Experience (IHS talk report)

October 1973: Nixon’s decision to resupply Israel

Roundtable Review of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink

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

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

Citizens at Last: Texas Women Fight for the Vote

Burying the Lede? The Iran Hostage Crisis “October Surprise” and Me

Bridging the Gap over Uncharted Waters: An Interview with Kyle Balzer

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

Remembering LBJ: An Interview with Mark Atwood Lawrence

From Camp David to Baghdad: Scrambling for and Against Peace in the Middle East, Fall 1978

Confronting Dictatorship: Jimmy Carter and Human Rights Diplomacy in Argentina

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

Crises as Catalysts: The Case for Optimism in Future US-Russia Arms Control Negotiations

Putin’s Effort to Make Conquest Acceptable Again

Complicated Inclusion: Exploring the Reception of Nigerian Immigrants in the United States

“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

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”

“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

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?”

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

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

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire

Roundtable: Effects of COVID on the Chinese Diaspora in North America

In the Shadow of Vietnam: The United States and the Third World in the 1960s

In the Shadow of Vietnam: The United States and the Third World in the 1960s

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

Unidos Marcharemos Adelante

Unidos Marcharemos Adelante

Primary Source: Notes for a Napoleonic Scandal

The McFarland Cuban Plantation Records

Tasting Empanadas and Red Wine in Chile’s Popular Unity Revolution

Tasting Empanadas and Red Wine in Chile’s Popular Unity Revolution

Unboxing the Saints: A Curious Case from Early Modern Milan

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

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

New Research: History Honors Projects

The Catholic Church and the Dirty War: Documents from the Benson Latin American Collection

The Catholic Church and the Dirty War: Documents from the Benson Latin American Collection

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

Refusing to Forget

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

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

Primary Source: Patronage and Power in Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Court

Primary Source: Patronage and Power in Machiavelli and the Elizabethan Court

IHS Climate in Context: Environments and Borders: Where Do We Draw the Lines?

IHS Climate in Context - Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

IHS Climate in Context – Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

From Peaceful Village to Army Outpost: Memories of Militarization in Huehuetenango

Salvation, Science and Synthetic Rubber

How a city plan, the atomic age and Cold War economics converged to shape today’s Austin banner image

How a city plan, the atomic age and Cold War economics converged to shape today’s Austin

The Vanishing American Century?

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

Out of the Rubble: Doctors Strikes and State Repression in Guatemala’s Cold War

Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire

Fifty Years On: Remembering Gamal Abd al-Nasser

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

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

Monsoon Islam: An interview with Sebastian Prange

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

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

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

Banner image with "Black Resistance and Resilience Collected Works From Not Even Past" in white text on a multi-colored blue background

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”

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

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

Black and white image of Lizzie Scott Neblett

A (Queer) Rebel Wife In Texas

Free Healthcare with a Price

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

The Austin Women Activists Oral History Project

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

Oil and Money: Texas Politics, 1929-1932

Sky Pilot, How High Can You Fly

History Between Memory and Reconstruction

Black and white image of women Register to Vote in Travis County, 1918

Voting Rights Still Threatened 100 Years After the 19th Amendment

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

The Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

Kusumoto Ine: A Remarkable Woman in Meiji Restoration Japan

Romero

Black and white image of Helen Martinez and her four children in San Antonio, Texas

Remembering the Tex-Son Strike: Legacies of Latina-led Labor Activism in San Antonio, Texas

José and His Brothers

Turbo-folk: Pop Music in the Crucible of Balkan History

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

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

Black and white photograph of a headshot of Tom Ward

A Longhorn’s Life of Service: Tom Ward

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

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

The Proletarian Dream: Working-class Culture in Modern Germany

Confucian Patriarchy and the Allure of Communism in China

The Spirit of Honorable Compromise

Inching Towards War: Military Preparedness in the 1930s

The Politics of a Handkerchief: Personal Thoughts on the Motif of Female Activism in Argentina

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

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

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.”

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

Austin Historical Atlas: Development During World War I

A print featuring a large map of San Antonio from the 19th century

Fandangos, Intemperance, and Debauchery

Monumental Reinterpretation

In Defense of the Crime Story

An Anticipated Tragedy: Reflections on Brazil’s National Museum

Black Women in Black Power

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

Missing Signatures: The Archives at First Glance

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

Did Race and Racism Exist in the Middle Ages?

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

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

Ideological Origins of a Cold Warrior: John Foster Dulles and his Grandfather

Goddess of Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, American Radical

Cuba’s Revolutionary World

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

Che Guevara’s Last Interview

The Bombing War and German Memory of WWII

The Impossible Presidency

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

Black and white photograph of Mexican president, Plutarco Elias Calles standing with members of the Apostolic Mexican Catholic Church

A Texas Historian’s Perspective on Mexican State Anticlericalism

The Media Matters: Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Discovery of Hunger in the U.S.

China Today: Communism for Americans in the 1930s

American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream

Why I Ban the Word “Feminism” from My Classes

Media and Politics From the Prague Spring Archive

Industrial Sexuality: Gender in a Small Town in Egypt

#changethedate: Australia’s Holiday Controversy

Women’s March, Like Many Before It, Struggles for Unity

Stylized picture of a laptop sitting on a nicely decorated desk displaying the words "fake news" on a blurred out online article

History in a “Post-Truth” Era

Longfellow’s Great Liberators: Abraham Lincoln and Dante Alighieri

History Calling: LBJ and Thurgood Marshall on the Telephone

Foreign Policy from Candidate to President: Richard Nixon and the Lesson of Biafra

How Washington Helped Fidel Castro Rise to Power

The Last Hindu Emperor

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

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

Stokely Carmichael: A Life

Picture of a market stall in São Pedro, Brazil

History and Advocacy: Brazil in Turmoil

Peeping Through the Bamboo Curtain: Archives in the People’s Republic of China

Policing Art in Early Soviet Russia

Muhammad Ali Helped Make Black Power into a Global Brand

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

Reconstruction in Austin: The Unknown Soldiers

American Zionism and Soviet Jews

On the Performance Front: Internationalism and US Theatre

Image of the front facade of Casa Marianella in Austin, Texas

Sanctuary Austin: 1980s and Today

A New Fascist Revolution?

The Sword and the Camera: Becoming ISIS

Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

Call Pest Control: The Bug Problem at the US Embassy in Moscow

Vietnam between the United States and Yugoslavia

Rabin’s Assassination Twenty Years Later

The War in Vietnam Revisited

Could a Supreme Court justice be president?

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

The Seldoms Bring LBJ and the 1960s Into the Present in Their Investigation of How Power Goes

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

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

Gramsci on Hegemony

Old Sorrel hair

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

Climate Change in History

Print of the bombardment and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 11th 1863. Via Wikipedia.

Conflict in the Confederacy: William Williston Heartsill’s diary

Che in Gaza: Searching for the Story Behind the Image

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

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

Reinventing Modern China

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia

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

Confederados: The Texans of Brazil

The Cuban and Texas flags flying together during a pleasure ride outside of Havana. This event (minus the Texas flag) made page 3 of the NY Times on November 12, 2007.

The Future of Cuba-Texas Relations

Catholic Borderlands

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

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

Independence for Scotland? An Historical Perspective on the Scottish Referendum

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

Book cover of Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg

Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an

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

Fools and Kings

The Tatars of Crimea: Ethnic Cleansing and Why History Matters

Indrani Chatterjee on Monasteries and Memory in Northeast India

Portrait painting of George Washington against a dark background

Presidents on NEP for Presidents’ Day

Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

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

A Historian Reads Machiavelli

UT Gender Symposium: Women’s Bodies and Political Agendas

The Prisoner of Events in Vietnam

Por Ahora: The Legacy of Hugo Chávez Frías

Could a Muslim – or a Catholic or a Jew – Be President? A 1788 Constitutional Debate

When a Government Tells Historians How to Write and How to Teach

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

Lady Bird Johnson interviewed by Michael Gillette

A Rare Phone Call from One President to Another

Philippa Levine on Eugenics Around the World

Black and white portrait of Texas Governor Ann Richards

Women Shaping Texas in the Twentieth Century

An “Act of Justice”?

Work Left Undone: Emancipation was not Abolition

1863 in 1963

Election Fraud! Read All About It!

H.W. Brands on Thomas Carlyle on the French Revolution

Pussy Riot

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

Texans at Antietam: 150 Years Ago Today

H. W. Brands on Ulysses S. Grant

White House Forum on Latino Heritage

Thinking About the Constitution

Image of the McDonald Observatory sitting faraway on a shrub covered hill overlooking surrounding grasslands

From Marfa to Mauritania in Forty Years

The Strangest Dream – Reykjavik 1986

Arab Autumn: Egypt Now

Historians on Occupy Wall Street: Protest, Dissent, and the Search for Order

Portrait of seventeenth-century century Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei

At the Debates: Rick Perry and Galileo

Oil and Weapons in Gaddafi’s Libya

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

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

George on the Lege, Part 8 – Public Higher Education

Image of an Asian family from July 19, 1943 sitting on the edge of a fountain on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin

Family Outing in Austin, Texas

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s Puritan Conquistadors

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

George on the Lege, Part 7 – Medicaid

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

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

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

Black and white image of Mary Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter gesturing with her left hand

Liz Carpenter: Texan

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

George on the Lege, Part 5 – School Finance

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

George on the Lege, Part 4 – Concealed Weapons

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

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

George on the Lege, Part 3 – Redistricting

Image looking down a valley of green shrubbery between two red-brown mountains

Big Bend – “Some sort of scenic beauty”

Propaganda or Progress?

H. W. Brands on the Rise of American Capitalism

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

George on the Lege, Part 2

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

George on the Lege, Part 1 – Budget Crises

LBJ and Vietnam: A Conversation

Jacqueline Jones on Civil War Savannah

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