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

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

By Gwendolyn Lockman The Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Library opened “Get in the Game,” a timely exhibit on the intersection of social justice and sports, on April 21, 2018. In 2014, a new wave of athlete activism began in the United States. That year, NBA teams donned “I Can’t Breathe” shirts during warm ups to […]

November 19, 2018

La Mujer Unidad: Cynthia Orozco (UT History Honors Graduate ‘80)

La Mujer Unidad: Cynthia Orozco (UT History Honors Graduate ‘80)

By Nikki Lopez “I think I drew it in my apartment, I drew a lot of posters for organizations from Austin to San Marcos,” Cynthia Orozco answered when I asked about the origins of the poster. Orozco further explained to me that feminist consciousness groups like this one were popular in the late 1970s. “It […]

November 5, 2018

Cynthia Attaquin and a Wampanoag Network of Petitioners

Cynthia Attaquin and a Wampanoag Network of Petitioners

Change.org, Ipetition, petitiononline — today, the digital marketplace has spurred the easy distribution of petitions.  While they are significant, modern petitioning campaigns offer a different contribution to public discourse than their nineteenth-century counterparts. For women, people of color, and others who had little access to political movers and shakers, petitioning placed them a signature and […]

April 25, 2018

Missing Signatures: The Archives at First Glance

Missing Signatures: The Archives at First Glance

by Alina Scott On February 21, 1831, a petition containing the signatures of over 800 Connecticut residents was submitted  to the United States Congress on behalf of the indigenous population in the South who were facing relocation. The petition acknowledged Native peoples as the “original proprietors of the soil” and its authors claimed that to […]

April 11, 2018

“Doing” History in the Modern U.S. Survey: Teaching with and Analyzing Academic Articles

“Doing” History in the Modern U.S. Survey: Teaching with and Analyzing Academic Articles

Originally posted on Process History on September 5, 2017. by Christopher Babits Near the end of the spring semester, my department asked me to teach a summer session of U.S. History since 1865. I had a short time to think about what I’d teach and how I’d teach it. For me, it was important for […]

October 23, 2017

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

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

April 11, 2017 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a historical moment that is far more relevant today than we might wish: the discovery of hunger in the U.S. or, perhaps better put, the point in the late 1960s when severe poverty and life-threatening malnutrition in the world’s wealthiest nation suddenly soared into public view on the national political stage.

April 12, 2017

Why I Ban the Word “Feminism” from My Classes

Why I Ban the Word “Feminism” from My Classes

by Jacqueline Jones In each of my graduate seminars, at the beginning of the semester, I caution students not to use certain words I consider problematic; these words can actually hinder our understanding of a complex past.  Commonly used—or rather, overused—in everyday conversation as well as academic discourse, the banned words include “power,” “freedom,” and […]

March 29, 2017

Sergei Eisenstein on “The Birth of a Nation”

Sergei Eisenstein on “The Birth of a Nation”

by Joan Neuberger The great Soviet film pioneer, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), shared many of the Eurocentric views of his day but throughout his career he was outspoken in his opposition to racism. He was also a lifelong admirer of D.W. Griffith, another great innovator in the early period of cinema and the director of the notorious 1915 […]

February 27, 2017

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

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

By Haley Schroer Nineteen-year-old Antonio de Ulloa set sail for the Americas in the spring of 1735. Ulloa was traveling as one of two assistants to a contingency of French scientists appointed to South America.  The observations Ulloa and his counterpart, Jorge Juan, made on the excursion culminated in Relación Histórica del Viage a la […]

February 22, 2017

Digital Teaching: A Mid-Semester Timeline

Digital Teaching: A Mid-Semester Timeline

By Chris Babits Last March, students in Dr. Erika Bsumek’s Introduction to American Indian History took their midterm exam. Most students earned good grades, but on a mid-semester assessment, a large number expressed interest in some form of extra credit. Students also indicated that since the material was very new to them (secondary curricula rarely emphasizes […]

February 20, 2017

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