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

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

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

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

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From Africa to Austin: Bondy Washington

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 Weight Around My Neck

Memories of War: Japanese Borderlands Experiences during WWII

Remembering Carlos E. Castañeda: A Mexican Historian in Texas

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

Black Women’s Academic Work is Not for the Taking

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

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

Remembering LBJ: An Interview with Mark Atwood Lawrence

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

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

NEP Faculty Feature - Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

NEP Faculty Feature: Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and the Queer History of the Old Clothes Scandal

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

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

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

Black Cowboys: An American Story

Black Cowboys: An American Story

Unidos Marcharemos Adelante

Unidos Marcharemos Adelante

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

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

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

The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico

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

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

Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire

Fifty Years On: Remembering Gamal Abd al-Nasser

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

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

Immigration and Virologic Hysteria

Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and Urban Slavery

Photograph of the first page of Julien Sidney Devereux, Sr.'s will

Documenting Slavery in East Texas: Transcripts from Monte Verdi

Banner image of the post Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

Black and white image of the Neill-Cochran House

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

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

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

Voting Rights Still Threatened 100 Years After the 19th Amendment

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

The Curious Case of the Thomas Cook Hospital in Luxor

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

Image of the painting A Ride for Liberty by Eastman Johnson from the Brooklyn Museum

Love in the Time of Texas Slavery

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

The Frontera Collection

White Women and the Economy of Slavery

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

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

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)

Eddie Anderson, the Black Film Star Created by Radio

Black Women in Black Power

Cynthia Attaquin and a Wampanoag Network of Petitioners

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

Missing Signatures: The Archives at First Glance

Did Race and Racism Exist in the Middle Ages?

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

On the “Polish Death Camps” Law

Goddess of Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, American Radical

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

Why I Ban the Word “Feminism” from My Classes

Sergei Eisenstein on “The Birth of a Nation”

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

Examining Race in Appleton, WI

The Price for their Pound of Flesh

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

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

History Calling: LBJ and Thurgood Marshall on the Telephone

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

Letter from Sion R. Bostick to Eugene C. Barker discussing the illegal slave trade in Texas in the 1830s

The Illegal Slave Trade in Texas, 1808-1865

Mapping Newcomers in Buenos Aires, 1928

Gravestone of Harris Rednick from a graveyard in Luling, Texas

History Revealed in a Very Small Place

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

On the Performance Front: Internationalism and US Theatre

1928 National Negro League Champion St. Louis Stars. Photo courtesy of the Missouri History Museum

Remembering Willie “El Diablo” Wells and Baseball’s Negro Leagues

Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

Charleston Shooting Exposes America’s Pro-Apartheid Cold War Past

On Flags, Monuments, and Historical Myths

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

History Museums: Race, Eugenics, and Immigration in New York History Museums

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

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

#Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Black and white photograph of members of the 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment recruited in Ohio during the Civil War

The Holland Family: An American Story

The Tatars of Crimea: Ethnic Cleansing and Why History Matters

Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America

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

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

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

Philippa Levine on Eugenics Around the World

An “Act of Justice”?

Work Left Undone: Emancipation was not Abolition

The Emancipation Proclamation reaches Savannah

1863 in 1963

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

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 – 2000

The Freedmen’s Bureau: Work After Emancipation

Karl Hagstrom Miller on Segregating Southern Pop Music

Casta Paintings

Tiffany Gill on Beauty Shop Politics

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

Jacqueline Jones on Civil War Savannah

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