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Latin America and the Caribbean

NEP’s Archive Chronicles – Full Series

“Muhammad’s Law” in Latin America: Outlining Historiographical Legacies of Early Modern Atlantic Islam

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Pensar el archivo hasta no ver. Ceguera y redes afectivas

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Archives & Blindness

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

An Overlooked Success: How the Failed Annexation of Santo Domingo led to the Successful Prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: An experiential approach to the Archive of the Indies

The Weak and the Powerful: Omar Torrijos, Panama, and the Non-Aligned Movement in the World (IHS Book Talk)

A visceral turn: Dr. Zeb Tortorici and queer alterities to the archives

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Procesados e interrogados. Encontrando las voces de los Yaqui en los archivos judiciales de Sonora

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NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Prosecuted and interrogated. Finding the voices of the Yaqui in the judicial archives of Sonora

The bold political style of Luciano Cruz: The Chilean student protests of 1967

Review of Carros y Cultura: Lowriding Legacies in Texas at the Bullock Texas State History Museum

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5 Books I recommend from Comps: The History of Psychedelics

NEP’S Archive Chronicles: El Archivo General de la Nación (AGN, Ciudad de México): Procesos afectivos, paisajes urbanos y la escritura de la historia

NEP’s Archive Chronicles: The General National Archive (AGN, Mexico City): Affective Processes, Urban Landscapes, and the Writing of History

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

The Fellowship of the Tree Rings: A ClioVis Project

The Weight Around My Neck

Notes from the Field: Reflections on Dictatorship and Democracy in Argentina

Motherhood, Patriotism and Enfranchisement: How Mexican Catholic Women Defined Womanhood in the Mid-Twentieth Century 

Memories of War: Japanese Borderlands Experiences during WWII

Saving History: Cultural Heritage, Preservation and Public Service

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

Remembering Carlos E. Castañeda: A Mexican Historian in Texas

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

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

Confronting Dictatorship: Jimmy Carter and Human Rights Diplomacy in Argentina

Los huecos de la Historia: una entrevista con Nathaly Rodríguez Sánchez / The Spaces of History: An Interview with Nathaly Rodríguez Sánchez

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

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

Rompiendo paréntesis: Erika Pani y el arte de la excepción Breaking Parentheses: Erika Pani and the Art of Exceptions

Una conversación con la Dra. Silvia Arrom/ A Conversation with Dr. Silvia Arrom

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

La XVI Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México en la Historia / XVI Meeting of International Historians of Mexico in History

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

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

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

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

The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

The Man Who Sold the Border: The Mercantile Imagination of Robert Runyon

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

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

Casta Paintings

NEP Second Edition: Casta Paintings

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

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

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

New Research: History Honors Projects

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

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

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

Refusing to Forget

Engaging Communities: Emilio Zamora and the Work of the Historian

The Trial of the Juntas: Reckoning with State Violence in Argentina

The Trial of the Juntas: Reckoning with State Violence in Argentina

IHS Climate in Context: Environments and Borders: Where Do We Draw the Lines?

The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico

The Benson as Anti-Colonial Library and Archive: A Letter from the Incoming Director of the Institute for Historical Studies

Introducing a New Collaboration between Not Even Past and LLILAS Benson

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

Salvation, Science and Synthetic Rubber

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

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

Works in Progress: The Radical Spanish Empire

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

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

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Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past

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

Romero

José and His Brothers

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

Crafting a Republic for the World in 19th-Century Colombia

The Frontera Collection

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

The Defiant Heretic: The Scandal of Justa Mendez

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

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

Fandangos, Intemperance, and Debauchery

Underground Santiago: Sweet Waters Grown Salty

In Defense of the Crime Story

Civil War and Daily Life: Snapshots of the Early War in Guatemala

An Anticipated Tragedy: Reflections on Brazil’s National Museum

Cuba’s Revolutionary World

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

Che Guevara’s Last Interview

Rodolfo Valentín González Pérez: An unusual disappearance

The Museo Regional de Oriente in San Miguel, El Salvador

Too Much Inclusion? Museo Casa de la Memoria, Medellín, Colombia

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

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

History of Modern Central America Through Digital Archives

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

How Washington Helped Fidel Castro Rise to Power

Cuba on Not Even Past

Picture of a market stall in São Pedro, Brazil

History and Advocacy: Brazil in Turmoil

Mapping Newcomers in Buenos Aires, 1928

Acapulco-Manila: the Galleon, Asia and Latin America, 1565-1815

Whose Classical Traditions?

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

Sanctuary Austin: 1980s and Today

Painters, Pigments, and the Making of the Florentine Codex

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

The Public Historian: Giving it Back

Corpses, Canoes and Catastrophes: An 18th-Century Priest’s Resume

History Museums: The Center for Memory, Peace, and Reconciliation, Bogotá, Colombia

Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America

History Museums: Museo Nacionál de Antropología, Mexico

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

The Cuban and Texas flags flying together during a pleasure ride outside of Havana. This event (minus the Texas flag) made page 3 of the NY Times on November 12, 2007.

The Future of Cuba-Texas Relations

Sculpture and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

Catholic Borderlands

Facing North from Inca Country: Entanglement, Hybridity, and Rewriting Atlantic History

Capitalism After Socialism in Cuba

UNESCO Designates Costa Rica’s Ancient Stone Balls a World Heritage Site

Sixteen Months in a Leaky Boat

Album cover of Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto featuring Carlos Jobim

Getz/Gilberto Fifty Years Later: A Retrospective

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

Stephen F. Austin’s bookstore receipt

Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America

Por Ahora: The Legacy of Hugo Chávez Frías

A Rare Phone Call from One President to Another

Mapping the Earth, Mapping the Air

Yarico’s Story

Frank A. Guridy on the Transnational Black Diaspora

Borderlands Business: Conflict and Cooperation on the US-Mexico Border

Rethinking Borders: Salman Rushdie & Sebastião Salgado on the US-Mexico Border

Casta Paintings

Bad Blood: Newly Discovered Documents on US Funded Syphilis Experiments

Image of an Asian family from July 19, 1943 sitting on the edge of a fountain on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin

Family Outing in Austin, Texas

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s Puritan Conquistadors

Naming and Picturing New World Nature

Propaganda or Progress?

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