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Features

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

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

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

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

From Nurslings of God to Soldiers of Christ: Gender and Childhood in Cistercian Spiritual Formation

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

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

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

Confronting Dictatorship: Jimmy Carter and Human Rights Diplomacy in Argentina

Roundtable Review of Jeremi Suri’s Civil War by Other Means

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

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)

Celebrating 200 Episodes of This Is Democracy: A Conversation about Conversations with Jeremi and Zachary Suri

NEP Faculty Feature - Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

NEP Faculty Feature – Dr. Daina Ramey Berry

Resources for Understanding and Celebrating Juneteenth

Resources for Understanding and Celebrating Juneteenth

Year in Review - Fall 2021/Spring 2022

Year in Review – Academic year 2021-2022

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

A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory

Primary Source: The Pirate Zheng Yi Sao and a Fine Press Publisher

Adriana Pacheco Roldán and Community Building

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

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

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

Hidden in Plain (Virtual) Sight: Searching for a Lost Portrait of Sor Juana by Juan de Miranda and Finding a Photograph of it in a Digital Archive

Hidden in Plain (Virtual) Sight: Searching for a Lost Portrait of Sor Juana by Juan de Miranda and Finding a Photograph of it in a Digital Archive

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

Unboxing the Saints: A Curious Case from Early Modern Milan

LEARNING FROM U.S. HISTORY - A fifth grade social studies curriculum

LEARNING FROM U.S. HISTORY – A fifth grade social studies curriculum

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

Primary Source: English Martyrs on the Streets of Milan

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 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

“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

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

Latin American and Caribbean History: Collected Works from Not Even Past

Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript Header Image

Primary Source: When Harry Met a Werewolf Manuscript

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

Primary Source: An Archbishop’s Lost Library Catalog

Revisiting Into the Wild

Primary Source: Getty McGuire's Botanical Basics Header Image

Primary Source: Getty McGuire’s Botanical Basics

The Vanishing American Century?

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

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

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

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

Fifty Years On: Remembering Gamal Abd al-Nasser

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

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)

Violence Against Black People in America: A ClioVis Timeline

Collage of portraits of seven recent history phd graduates.

Our New History Ph.D.s

Conspiracies, Fear, and the Dutch Empire in Asia

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

The Austin Women Activists Oral History Project

Queering Postwar Marriage in the U.S.

Oil and Money: Texas Politics, 1929-1932

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

History Between Memory and Reconstruction

Kusumoto Ine: A Remarkable Woman in Meiji Restoration Japan

Building a Virtual City for the Classroom: Angkor

Slavery World Wide: Collected Works from Not Even Past

2019 History PhDs on Not Even Past

Crafting a Republic for the World in 19c Colombia

The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin

Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible” in Stalin’s Russia

White Women and the Economy of Slavery

The Proletarian Dream: Working-class Culture in Modern Germany

The Spirit of Honorable Compromise

US History at the Movies

US History at the Movies

Eddie Anderson, the Black Film Star Created by Radio

Black Women in Black Power

The Public Archive: The Paperwork of Slavery

The Public Archive: Mercenary Monks

The Public Archive: Sicilian-American Puppetry

The Public Archive: The Gálvez Visita of 1765

The Public Archive: Indian Revolt of 1857

The Public Archive: Texas Czech Culinary Traditions

The Public Archive: María Luisa Puga and the 1985 Mexico City Earthquake

The Public Archive: The Road to Sesame Street

The Public Archive: Qahvehkhaneh, Reading Iranian Newspapers

The Public Archive: Frederic Allen Williams

The Public Archive: Woven Into History

The Gods of Indian Country

The Great Betrayal: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Arabs

Did Race and Racism Exist in the Middle Ages?

The American “Empire” Reconsidered

Goddess of Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, American Radical

Cuba’s Revolutionary World

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

The Bombing War and German Memory of WWII

The Impossible Presidency

Films on Migration, Exile, and Forced Displacement

MIGRATION

Arguing about Empire: The Dreyfus Affair and the Fashoda Crisis, 1898

American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream

Industrial Sexuality: Gender in a Small Town in Egypt

The Price for their Pound of Flesh

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

Digital Dividends

The Last Hindu Emperor

Stokely Carmichael: A Life

Thinking in Public: Public Scholarship @ UT Austin

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

On the Performance Front: Internationalism and US Theatre

The Sword and The Camera: Becoming ISIS

Childhood Has a History

Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

Public and Digital: Doing History Now

New Digital Technologies Bring Ancient Roman Villa to Life

The War in Vietnam Revisited

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

Mexico-US Interactions

Presidents Past

Slavery and Race in Colonial Latin America

Jim Crow: A Reading List

Slavery and its legacy in the USA

Climate Change in History

Reading Magnum: Photo Archive Gets a New Life

Reinventing Modern China

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia

Sculpture and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

Catholic Borderlands

The Global United States

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Carved in Stone: What Architecture Can Tell Us about the Sectarian History of Islam

Show & Tell: The Video Essay as History Assignment

Book cover of Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg

Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an

The Normandy Scholar Program on World War II

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

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

Indrani Chatterjee on Monasteries and Memory in Northeast India

Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

Penne Restad & Karl Miller on Teaching History

Mark Metzler on Post-War Japan

Brian Levack on Possession and Exorcism

Lady Bird Johnson interviewed by Michael Gillette

Philippa Levine on Eugenics Around the World

An “Act of Justice”?

The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863

Robyn Metcalfe on London’s 19th Century Meat Market

Mary Neuburger on Tobacco & Smoking in Bulgaria

Robert Abzug on The Varieties of Religious Experience

H. W. Brands on Ulysses S. Grant

Erika Bsumek on Navajo Artisans at the Trading Post

Bruce Hunt on Technology & Science in the 19th Century

Julie Hardwick on the Early Modern French Family

Frank A. Guridy on the Transnational Black Diaspora

Karl Hagstrom Miller on Segregating Southern Pop Music

Slavery, Work and Sexuality

Daina Ramey Berry on Slavery, Work and Sexuality

World War II Films from the Normandy Scholar Program

David Oshinsky on Capital Punishment

Tiffany Gill on Beauty Shop Politics

J. Cañizares-Esguerra’s Puritan Conquistadors

Yoav di-Capua on Egyptians Writing History

Toyin Falola on Africa and the United States

H. W. Brands on the Rise of American Capitalism

Jacqueline Jones on Civil War Savannah

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