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IHS & Public History

IHS Workshop: “Whose Decolonization? The Collection of Andean Ancestors and the Silences of American History” by Christopher Heaney, Pennsylvania State University

IHS Workshop: “Einstein in World War I: How He Loved the Wrong Woman, Suffered a Fugitive Soldier, and Helped an Assassin” by Alberto A. Martínez, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Book Roundtable: Enlightenment and Geopolitics of Knowledge

IHS Workshop: “‘Honest, Clean, Industrious’: Working Class Respectability,” by Stefanie Shackleton, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Workshop: “Contested Customs: Reinventing Indigenous Authority in Ubaque, New Kingdom of Granada,” by Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Book Roundtable: “Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy” by Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Book Roundtable: “Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution” by H. W. Brands, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Panel: Beyond Empire and Borderlands: How to Write a Connected History of the 19th-Century Mexican and U.S. Republics?

IHS Book Roundtable: “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century” by Peniel E. Joseph, the University of Texas at Austin

IHS Workshop: “‘Wherever the Flag Flies’: Conquest, Sovereignty, and Vital Records in Early Colonial Algeria” by Benjamin Claude Brower, University of Texas at Austin

Book Roundtable: "Ingredients of Change: The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria" by Mary Neuburger, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Book Roundtable: “Ingredients of Change: The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria” by Mary Neuburger, University of Texas at Austin

Roundtable: "The Foremothers of Women of Color Feminism"

IHS Roundtable: The Foremothers of Women of Color Feminism

IHS Talleres y Debates: "Sobre Talento, Objetos, y Colonias en la Exposición 'Tornaviaje' del Museo del Prado"

IHS Talleres y Debates: “Sobre Talento, Objetos, y Colonias en la Exposición ‘Tornaviaje’ del Museo del Prado”

IHS Roundtable: The 1619 Project: A Continental, Afro Latiné Perspective

IHS Roundtable: The 1619 Project: A Continental, Afro Latiné Perspective

IHS Roundtable: Between Neocolonial Collecting and Anticolonial Resistance? The Logic of Afro-Latiné/Latiné/Latin-American Archives in the United States (Benson Centennial)

IHS Roundtable: Between Neocolonial Collecting and Anticolonial Resistance? The Logic of Afro-Latiné/Latiné/Latin-American Archives in the United States (Benson Centennial)

IHS Book Roundtable: What Belongs in Mexico's National Museum?: Two Centuries of Object Collecting, Display, and Dispersal

IHS Book Roundtable: What Belongs in Mexico’s National Museum?: Two Centuries of Object Collecting, Display, and Dispersal

IHS Symposium: The Curious Case of Race in the Russian Empire (16-19cc)

IHS Symposium: The Curious Case of Race in the Russian Empire (16-19cc)

IHS Roundtable - The 1619 Project: A U.S. Perspective

IHS Roundtable – The 1619 Project: A U.S. Perspective

IHS Podcast - E Pluribus Tria: Colonial Racial Formation in the Making of American Culture

IHS Podcast – E Pluribus Tria: Colonial Racial Formation in the Making of American Culture

IHS Book Roundtable: "The New Faces of Neoliberal Christianity in Latin America”

IHS Book Roundtable: “The New Faces of Neoliberal Christianity in Latin America”

IHS Book Roundtable: "A Time To Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture”

IHS Book Roundtable: “A Time To Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture”

IHS Podcast – A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture

IHS Podcast – A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture

Talleres y Debates: "Sobre la destrucción y reconstrucción de imperios, de Hispanoamérica continental a Brasil (1810s-1820s)"

Talleres y Debates: “Sobre la destrucción y reconstrucción de imperios, de Hispanoamérica continental a Brasil (1810s-1820s)”

IHS Podcast – Against the Grain: Textile Relics and the Science of Sanctity in the Global Renaissance

IHS Podcast – Against the Grain: Textile Relics and the Science of Sanctity in the Global Renaissance

IHS Podcast - The New Faces of God in Latin America

IHS Podcast – The New Faces of God in Latin America

IHS Roundtable: 'The Eyes of Texas': Historians’ Perspectives on the Origins of the Song

IHS Roundtable: ‘The Eyes of Texas’: Historians’ Perspectives on the Origins of the Song

IHS Workshop: “Covarrubias’ Crossings: Picturing the New Negro and the Making of Modern Mexico” by Rodrigo Salido Moulinié, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Book Talk: "'Tribe and State in Global History': The Political and Cultural Work of the Category of Tribe in the Historiographies of Asia, Americas, and Africa," by Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Book Talk: “‘Tribe and State in Global History’: The Political and Cultural Work of the Category of Tribe in the Historiographies of Asia, Americas, and Africa,” by Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin

Prop A in the Context of Race and Policing in Austin, Texas: An Urgent Forum

IHS Panel: “Prop A in the Context of Race and Policing in Austin, Texas: An Urgent Forum”

IHS Podcast – Mexico’s Social Science Laboratory and the Origins of the US Civil Rights Movement (1930-1950)

IHS Podcast – Mexico’s Social Science Laboratory and the Origins of the US Civil Rights Movement (1930-1950)

The social history of 16th and 17th century Andean “ethnographic” knowledge, bottom-up or top down?

IHS Podcast – The social history of 16th and 17th century Andean “ethnographic” knowledge, bottom-up or top down?

IHS Podcast - Welcomed and then Expelled: The Plight of Chinese Mexicans from 1910 to 1960

IHS Podcast – Welcomed and then Expelled: The Plight of Chinese Mexicans from 1910 to 1960

IHS Book Talk: "Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile," by Joshua Frens-String, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Book Talk: “Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile,” by Joshua Frens-String, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Podcast – Colonial Peru’s Fractional Freedoms meet Morgan’s thesis: American Freedom, American Slavery

IHS Podcast: Hungry for Revolution

IHS Podcast -Apache Diaspora in four hundred years of colonialism vs ‘Toltec Antiquities’ Diaspora in Early Republican Mexico”

Workshop: "The Mexican Empire and Indigenous Texas, 1821-1823" by Sheena Cox, University of Texas at Austin

Workshop: “The Mexican Empire and Indigenous Texas, 1821-1823” by Sheena Cox, University of Texas at Austin

Republics of Knowledge, Democracy, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America

Republics of Knowledge, Democracy, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America

IHS Podcast – From Republic of Letters and Imagined Communities to Republics of Knowledge: Knowledge in the Making of 19th Century Radical Republics in Latin America

Roundtable: “Faith in Science: From the Boxer Rebellion to Covid 19” feat. Sean F. McEnroe (Southern Oregon University), Stephan Palmie (University of Chicago), J. Brent Crosson (UT Austin), Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Florida), and Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (UT Austin)

IHS Podcast – Faith in Science? COVID, Antivaxxers, the State, and Epistemological Power

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

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

IHS Talk: “Exploring Critical Environmental Justice Conflicts from the Neighborhood to the Carceral System” by David Naguib Pellow, University of California, Santa Barbara

Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene

IHS Climate in Context – Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (2018)

IHS Book Talk: “Imperial Science” by Bruce J. Hunt

IHS Panel: “Oil, Water, and Climate: Environmental Histories of Texas”

IHS Book Talk: “Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks” by Martha G. Newman

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

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Bathsheba Demuth

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Naomi Oreskes

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

IHS Panel: “The Environmental Protection Agency at the Half Century Mark, 1970-2020”

IHS Roundtable: “Teaching Climate Change: Perspectives from History and the Humanities”

IHS Panel: “Rodney King and the LA Riots: 30 Years Later”

Oil, Water, and Climate: Environmental Histories of Texas

IHS Climate in Context: “Oil, Water, and Climate: Environmental Histories of Texas” – Panel

Gilio Whitaker Talk

IHS Talk: “Environmental Justice in Indian Country and Moving Toward a Transformational Land Ethic” by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, California State University San Marcos

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

Guha Book Talk

IHS Book Talk: “History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000,” by Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Climate in Context - Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

IHS Climate in Context – Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

IHS Talk: “Confessions of a Failed Pandemic Planner” by Nancy Tomes, Stony Brook University

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

IHS Talk – “Rethinking Borders in a Digital Age” by Mark Ravina, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Climate in Context – “Thinking Historically About the Future of Energy and Climate,” by Paul Sabin, Yale University

IHS Panel: Falsehood, Fury, and Subverting the Rule of Law: Four Perspectives on Recent Events

IHS Panel: Falsehood, Fury, and Subverting the Rule of Law: Four Perspectives on Recent Events

Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s

IHS Climate in Context – Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, by Donald Worster (1979)

IHS Book Talk: “Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789,” by Julie Hardwick

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IHS Climate in Context: Introducing Planet Texas 2050

IHS Climate in Context – Climate by Proxy

IHS Workshop: “Royal Power and a Piece of Bread: Sufi Discipleship and Dargah Worship in the Maratha Empire” by Rupali Warke, University of Texas at Austin

IHS Climate in Context – “From Smog to Climate Change?: The Precarious Precedents for Curbing Greenhouse Gases in the U.S. and Mexico” by Christopher Sellers, Stony Brook University

IHS Climate in Context: Ancient Trees in Modern Times

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 Book Talk: “Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir” by Judith G. Coffin, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

IHS Book Talk: “Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage,” by Lauren Jae Gutterman, University of Texas at Austin (History Faculty New Book Talk)

IHS Climate in Context – Book Roundtable on The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, Carolyn Merchant (1980)

IHS Climate in Context – Climate, Migration, and Plague in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

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 Book Talk: “A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965,” with Maddalena Marinari and Madeline Y. Hsu (History Faculty New Book Talk)

IHS Book Talk: “Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.” by Peniel E. Joseph,(History Faculty New Book Talk)

IHS Climate in Context Talk: “Lessons From Little Ice Ages? Resilience and Complexity in Societal Responses to Climate Change”

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

IHS Climate in Context: Understanding Resilience in the History of Climate Change

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

IHS Climate in Context: Tools and Resources for Studying Environmental History

IHS Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented

Talk: “Hope, Agency and Transformation: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic and Tackling Our Planetary Emergency” by John Barry, Queen’s College Belfast

Panel: “Socialisms in Practice: Three Twentieth-Century Cases” (Agency and Action: Chapters in Socialist and Collectivist History Series)

Panel: “Postcolonial Socialisms in Perspective” (Agency and Action: Chapters in Socialist and Collectivist History Series)

Talk: “The Problem of Newness: Art Cinema in India,” by Rochona Majumdar, University of Chicago

Littlefield Lectures With Jack E. Davis

IHS Talk: “The Civil War Undercommons: Studying Revolution on the Mississippi River” by Andrew Zimmerman

Panel: “From the May Fourth Movement to the Communist Revolution”

Panel: “Brexit in Global and Historical Context”

“Debt: A Natural History,” by Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University

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

IHS Panel: “The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: 100 Years Later”

IHS Talk: “Climate and Soil: An Environmental History of the Maya” by Timothy Beach, University of Texas (Reclaiming the Pre-Modern Past)

When Answers are not Enough: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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

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

Panel: “1968: A Year of Upheaval in Global Perspective”

The Littlefield Lectures: The Van and the Rear: Abolitionist Roots of Radical Reconstruction (Day 2)

The Littlefield Lectures: Abolition and the Making of Southern Reaction (Day 1)

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The Public Archive

People standing on cars and military vehicles in crowded streets during the so-called Prague Spring reform

50 Years Since Prague Spring: Czechoslovak Dreams and Cold War Realities

How do we talk about Enoch? Enoch Powell, Race Relations, and Public History in Britain

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

On the “Polish Death Camps” Law

Juan Belman giving a presentation in front of a crowded room

Watch: “DACA: Past, Present, and Future”

Picture of a mural at the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), San Salvador

The National Museum of Anthropology in San Salvador

Professor José C. Moya giving a presentation in front of a crowded room

Watch: Beyond ‘Crisis’ and Headlines: The History of Humanity as a History of Migration

Professor Peniel E. Joseph in a suit standing at a crowded table giving a presentation

Panel Discussion: “The Confederate Statues at UT”

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IHS Roundtable – Loving v. Virginia After 50 Years

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History in a “Post-Truth” Era

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History and Advocacy: Brazil in Turmoil

Beyonce performs at the Superbowl. Courtesy of Ezra Shaw/Getty Images.

Beyoncé as Historian: Black Power at the DPLA

Quilombola activists at a demonstration against proposed construction of hydroelectric dams on the Ribeira de Iguape River in Adrianópolis, Paraná

The Public Historian: Quilombola Seeds

1928 National Negro League Champion St. Louis Stars. Photo courtesy of the Missouri History Museum

Remembering Willie “El Diablo” Wells and Baseball’s Negro Leagues

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

The Public Historian: Giving it Back

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Transpacific China in the Cold War

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Making History: Jesse Cromwell

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