The past is never dead. It's not even past
Brittany Erwin is a Ph.D. student at the Department of History at the University of Texas as Austin.
Austin’s Oakwood Cemetery, which was established in the mid-1800s, is located in a quiet neighborhood on the east side of the city. The property is separated from the city center by busy highways and rapidly expanding housing developments. Its black, metal gates create an unassuming boundary between the hundreds of crumbling grave markers inside and […]
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology—often called the Penn Museum—contains an extensive collection of objects originating from “ancient Egypt, Greece and Italy, Mesopotamia, Asia, Africa, and the Americas and more.” Many of those pieces are available for viewing online. The Penn Museum website offers in-depth descriptions of each item, along with high-resolution […]
The Visualizing Cultures site provides a deep dive into the history of China and Japan through carefully curated collections of primary documents. Created by a team of scholars based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the page features image galleries, lesson plans, and even an online introductory-level course. It has partnered with archives around […]
The Louvre Museum, which is located in Paris and is home to hundreds of thousands of art pieces, remained closed to the public for much of 2020 and part of 2021. However, its webpage allows users to visit its exhibitions and peruse its collections virtually. For students and teachers, the site offers three especially useful […]
These reviews discuss two different but connected digital resources: the Age of Revolutions and the Newberry French Pamphlet Collection. Both are important resources for the study of revolutions. Review: Age of Revolutions The Editors of the Age of Revolutions website describe it as “an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal,” but the breadth of its features and […]
On Monday, March 8th at noon, David N. Pellow will deliver a talk at the Institute of Historical Studies at UT Austin entitled “Exploring Critical Environmental Justice Conflicts from the Neighborhood to the Carceral System.” Dr. Pellow is the Dehlsen Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is […]
Many of the Latin American archives located in the US have something of a history of exclusivity, which benefitted researchers with insider knowledge of their contents, or those with the time to blindly explore. By its own estimation, the Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera within the Princeton University Library was “practically inaccessible” before 2015. […]
Open-access digital archives have become a crucial resource for humanities research. Online sources eliminate the costs and hassles of travel to and from the archives that preserve the actual documents. They also expand access, by granting students, scholars, teachers, and interested members of the public the opportunity to explore the sources themselves. To that end, […]
On Monday November 23, the Institute for Historical Studies will host a workshop centered around a paper by Dr. Christopher Sellers entitled “From Smog to Climate Change?: The Precarious Precedents for Curbing Greenhouse Gases in the U.S. and Mexico” at noon Central Time. Dr. Sellers is Professor of History at Stony Brook University and a […]
On October 22nd at 3:30 pm CDT, historian and specialist in disease, medicine, and public health Nükhet Varlık will present her work at the Institute for Historical Studies. Dr. Varlik is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark and an Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Her IHS talk will […]