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Research Stories

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Tips for using PARES (Portal de Archivos Estatales)

Leaps of Fame: The Rise of Sam Patch and a Changing Industrial Landscape

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

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From Africa to Austin: Bondy Washington

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

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

Notes from the Field

From the Syllabus: Teaching the Practice of Early Modern Censorship in the Classroom

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

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

Did Mark the Evangelist Write a Secret Gospel? Did Jesus Have a Relationship with a Young Man? A Fresh Investigation into the Secret Gospel of Mark

Black Women’s Academic Work is Not for the Taking

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

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

Picturing My Family: A World War II Odyssey

Picturing My Family: Wartime Weddings and a People’s War

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

Picturing My Family: Fathers and Sons

Introducing Picturing My Family: A New Visual Archive by Not Even Past

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

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

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

Lessons from the Grave

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)

NEP Faculty Feature - Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

NEP Faculty Feature: Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

The Public, Access, and the Archival Dimensions of Digital Humanities: An Introduction to the Work of Christina Wasson

The Public, Access, and the Archival Dimensions of Digital Humanities: An Introduction to the Work of Christina Wasson

Counter Archives and Archives of Resistance

Counter Archives and Archives of Resistance

Radical Collaboration: Brook Lillehaugen and the Ticha Project

Radical Collaboration: Brook Lillehaugen and the Ticha Project

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

Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Revolutionizing Latin American History with Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Revolutionizing Latin American History with Artificial Intelligence

Archives and their Afterlives: Conversing with the Work of Kirsten Weld

Archives and their Afterlives: Conversing with the Work of Kirsten Weld

Preservation and Decay as Public History at the Moon-Randolph Homestead

Preservation and Decay as Public History at the Moon-Randolph Homestead

Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Viewing Juan de Miranda’s Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Viewing Juan de Miranda’s Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire

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

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

Primary Source: English Martyrs on the Streets of Milan

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Virtual Conference

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

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

Primary Source: Hares in the Margins of Judgment Day

Confessions of an Archives Convert: Reflecting on the Genaro García Collection

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented – Conference Program

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Bathsheba Demuth

IHS Climate in Context – Pioneering Geoarchaeology: A Tribute to Dr. Karl W. Butzer

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

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

Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript Header Image

Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript

IHS Climate in Context – Can We Leave It All Behind?

Primary Source: An Archbishop's Lost Library Catalog Header Image

Primary Source: An Archbishop’s Lost Library Catalog

Introducing Planet Texas Header Image

IHS Climate in Context: Introducing Planet Texas 2050

Primary Source: Getty McGuire's Botanical Basics Header Image

Primary Source: Getty McGuire’s Botanical Basics

IHS Climate in Context: Climate by Proxy

IHS Climate in Context: Analyzing Trees as Historical Evidence

Online Resources for the Study of Climate History and Suburban Life

Primary Source: Pamphlets, Propaganda, and the Amboina Conspiracy Trial in the Classroom

An Intimate History of the Twentieth Century

Primary Source: An Elizabethan Exorcist's (very weird) Secret Press

Primary Source: An Elizabethan Exorcist’s (very weird) Secret Press

IHS Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented

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

Collage of portraits of seven recent history phd graduates.

Our New History Ph.D.s

Road Rage

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

Black and white image of Lizzie Scott Neblett

A (Queer) Rebel Wife In Texas

The Austin Women Activists Oral History Project

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

Documenting Slavery in East Texas: Transcripts from Monte Verdi

Queering Postwar Marriage in the U.S.

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

Rage and Resistance at Ashbel Smith’s Evergreen Plantation

Oil and Money: Texas Politics, 1929-1932

His Whaleship: The Stories of Real, Authentic, Dead Whales

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

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

Building a Virtual City for the Classroom: Angkor

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

Love in the Time of Texas Slavery

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

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 Quilombo Activists’ Archive and Post-Custodial Preservation, Part I

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

Stylized banner image consisting of a collage of different documents and historical objects

The Public Archive

The Gods of Indian Country

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

Mapping & Microbes: The New Archive (No. 22)

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

American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream

The Price for their Pound of Flesh

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

Digital Learning: Starting from Scratch

Digital Dividends

Thinking in Public: Public Scholarship at UT Austin

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

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

Gravestone of Harris Rednick from a graveyard in Luling, Texas

History Revealed in a Very Small Place

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

Sanctuary Austin: 1980s and Today

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

Picture of Quilombo of Ivaporunduva and the Ribeira de Iguape River in São Paulo, Brazil

The Public Historian: Giving it Back

Public and Digital: Doing History Now

New Digital Technologies Bring Ancient Roman Villas to Life

The War in Vietnam Revisited

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

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

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

Reading Magnum: A Photo Archive Gets a New Life

From the Humanities to the Digital Humanities: The New Archive (No. 20)

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

The letters were written in Spanish and are my own translation. All of the letters and images are from: Francisco A. Chapa Family Papers, MS 405, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.

A Father’s Love: Francois LaBorde’s Letters

Sculpture and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

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

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

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

Digital Visualization Workshop, Venice 2014: The New Archive (No. 17)

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

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Censorship in Surprising Places: Uncovering the Letters of Wilfred Owen

Photograph of the front facade of Garrison Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin

The Latest from Longhorn PhDs

Page from the Telegraph and Texas Register newspaper from Nov. 3, 1828

“The Die is Cast”: Early Texans Face the Comanches

Photograph of Clyde Rabb Littlefield standing next to a plaque memorializing his father

The Longhorns’ Resident Historian

Digital History: A Primer (Part 2)

Digital History: A Primer (Part 1)

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

Lady Bird Johnson interviewed by Michael Gillette

Screenshot of the homepage for The Death of Austin website

“The End of Austin” – A new online publication

Black and white portrait of Texas Governor Ann Richards

Women Shaping Texas in the Twentieth Century

“You have died of dysentery” – History According to Video Games

Mary Neuburger on Tobacco & Smoking in Bulgaria

H. W. Brands on Ulysses S. Grant

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

Bruce Hunt on Technology & Science in the 19th Century

Image of a strip mall church in Austin, Texas

Signs of Faith

Flickers of the Past

Summer, Interrupted

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