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

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

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

“Placenta (Human)”: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Women’s Work at Sea

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

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

HPS Talk: How the Histories of Medicine and Public Health Have Fared in the Media During Covid-19

HPS Talk: "Hacking Airspace: The Insurgent Technology of Brazil’s Hot Air Balloons" by Felipe Fernandes Cruz, Tulane University

HPS Talk: Hacking Airspace: The Insurgent Technology of Brazil’s Hot Air Balloons

Climate in Context Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Conference Report

Climate in Context Conference Report

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Virtual Conference

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

Writing Global Ecological History ‘From Below’: An Interview with Gregory Cushman

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Naomi Oreskes

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

HPS Talk – “Vannevar Bush and Cold War Science Policy,” by Johnny Miri

HPS Talk: “Thomas L. DeLorme and the Transformation of Rehabilitative Medicine”, Dr Jan Todd

Salvation, Science and Synthetic Rubber

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IHS Climate in Context: Introducing Planet Texas 2050

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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

IHS Climate in Context: New Scholarship on Climate, Plague, and the Medieval World

IHS Climate in Context: How Do Pandemics End? History Suggests Diseases Fade But Are Almost Never Truly Gone

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

IHS Climate in Context: Earth and Outer Space in Environmental History

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Teaching Texas History in a Time of Pandemic: Reflections on Online Teaching

IHS Climate in Context: Exploring Scholarship on the Little Ice Age

IHS Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

Free Healthcare with a Price

Black and white image of the Neill-Cochran House

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

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

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

Building a Virtual City for the Classroom: Angkor

Secrets of the Crypt

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

Wrong About Everything

Cynthia Attaquin and a Wampanoag Network of Petitioners

What Makes a Good History Blog?

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

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

Giordano Bruno and the Spirit that Moves the Earth

History of Modern Central America Through Digital Archives

My Alternative PhD in History

Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles: A Public History Project

What Killed Albert Einstein?

The Museum of Sour Milk: History Lessons on Bulgarian Yogurt

Remembering Chernobyl

Notes from the field: Retracing Sixteenth-Century Steps in Seville

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

View of the yard at the Texas State Prison in Huntsville, 1949

Reforming Prisons in Early Twentieth-century Texas

Why We Don’t Go to the Moon Anymore: The Space Program and the Challenge to Scientific Thinking

Kalashnikov’s Lawn Mower: The Man behind the Most Feared Gun in the World

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

Counterfactual History in a New Video Game

Brian Levack on Possession and Exorcism

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

Einstein, Relativity and Myths

Philippa Levine on Eugenics Around the World

Black and white portrait of Texas Governor Ann Richards

Women Shaping Texas in the Twentieth Century

Sarin Over Aleppo

Robyn Metcalfe on London’s 19th Century Meat Market

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

Mary Neuburger on Tobacco & Smoking in Bulgaria

Historians and Health Care

Health Care: A Historical Snapshot

Mapping the Earth, Mapping the Air

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

From Marfa to Mauritania in Forty Years

Was Einstein Really Religious?

Bruce Hunt on Technology & Science in the 19th Century

The Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919

Iran’s Nuclear Program and the History of the IAEA

UT History at the AHA Annual Meeting

The Strangest Dream – Reykjavik 1986

Bad Blood: Newly Discovered Documents on US Funded Syphilis Experiments

The “Einstein Letter” — A Tipping Point in History

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

Flickers of the Past

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 7 – Medicaid

Dividing by Nothing

Image of the First Electric tower erected in Austin, 41st & Speedway, 1895

City Lights: Austin’s Historic Moonlight Towers

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