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

Alexei Navalny’s Legacy and Anti-Putin Resistance

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

October 1973: Nixon’s decision to resupply Israel

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Two Bombings, Two Movies: From Hiroshima to Grave of the Fireflies

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

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

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

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

Lecturing in Kherson: A One-Year Reflection on Maps, Occupations, and Russia’s War against Ukraine

Remembering LBJ: An Interview with Mark Atwood Lawrence

Picturing My Family: A World War II Odyssey

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

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

Picturing My Family: Fathers and Sons

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

Putin’s Effort to Make Conquest Acceptable Again

“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)

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

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

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

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

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

The Vanishing American Century?

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

The War in Afghanistan is Nineteen Years Old: What Can it Teach us about Violence in American History?

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

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”

Anti-Semitism in Poland after the Six-Day War, 1967-1969

Indelibly Inked: Bodies, Tattoos, and Violence during Guatemala’s Civil War

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

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

Sky Pilot, How High Can You Fly

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Black and white photograph of a headshot of Tom Ward

A Longhorn’s Life of Service: Tom Ward

Inching Towards War: Military Preparedness in the 1930s

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

Fandangos, Intemperance, and Debauchery

The Gods of Indian Country

Wrong About Everything

“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

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

On the “Polish Death Camps” Law

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

Cuba’s Revolutionary World

Searching for Armenian Children in Turkey: Work Series on Migration, Exile, and Displacement

The Bombing War and German Memory of WWII

Studying the Vietnam War: How the Scholarship Has Changed

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

Looking Into the Katyn Massacre

Secrecy and Bureaucratic Distancing: Tracing Complaints through the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive

Longfellow’s Great Liberators: Abraham Lincoln and Dante Alighieri

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

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

Reconstruction in Austin: The Unknown Soldiers

The Sword and the Camera: Becoming ISIS

50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese American Perspective

The War in Vietnam Revisited

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

Remembering the Iran-Iraq War

Mexico-US Interactions

On Flags, Monuments, and Historical Myths

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

Photographing the German Air War, 1939-1945

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: The Hall of Never Again

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

Confederados: The Texans of Brazil

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

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

After WWII: George Kennan’s “Long Telegram”

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 Normandy Scholar Program on World War II

You Say You Want a Revolution? Reenacting History in the Classroom

#BringBackOurGirls: A History of Humanitarian Intervention in Nigeria

The End of the Lost Generation of World War I: Last Person Standing

Censorship in Surprising Places: Uncovering the Letters of Wilfred Owen

“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

The Lessons of History? Debating the Vietnam and Iraq Wars

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

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

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

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

“For a Gunner”: A World War II Love Story

The Prisoner of Events in Vietnam

Was Iraq War Worth It? 10 Years after Invasion, It’s Too Early to Know

An “Act of Justice”?

Napoleon in Russia, 1812

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

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

From Marfa to Mauritania in Forty Years

Humanitarian Intervention Before YouTube

Iran’s Nuclear Program and the History of the IAEA

On Veterans’ Day: War Photos

More Looking at World War II

Lend-Lease

The Atomic Bombs and the End of World War II: Tracking an Elusive Decision

Debating the Causes of the Civil War

Order No. 227: Stalinist Methods and Victory on the Eastern Front

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s Puritan Conquistadors

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

Jacqueline Jones on Civil War Savannah

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