The success of Not Even Past is made possible by a remarkable group of writers, both graduate students and faculty. Not Even Past Author Spotlights are designed to celebrate our most prolific authors by bringing all of their published content across the magazine together on a single page. The focus is especially on work published by UT […]
Latin American and Caribbean History: Collected Works from Not Even Past
Since its creation in 2010, Not Even Past has published a huge range of articles connected to Latin American and Caribbean History. To mark our new partnership with the Benson Latin American Collection, we have collected all these articles in one compilation page organized around 17 topics. These articles (156 in total) are a testament […]
The Vanishing American Century?
By Jeremi Suri (with comment by Daniel Immerwahr) From the Editors: This article is accompanied by a comment from Daniel Immerwahr (Northwestern University) who specializes in twentieth-century U.S. history within a global context. Such comments are a new feature for Not Even Past designed to provide different ways to engage with important new work. One […]
IHS Climate in Context Talk: Ancient Trees in Modern Times
Talk: “Ancient Trees in Modern Times” by Jared Farmer, University of Pennsylvania Thursday December 3, 2020 • Zoom Webinar Just as modernity created antiquity, modern science created ancient trees. However, most old trees do not suit the needs of data-driven science. After looking for centuries for the “oldest living thing,” scientists finally found something both […]
This is Democracy Reading List: Historical Memory and National Trauma (episode 121)
Not Even Past is proud to partner with This is Democracy, a groundbreaking podcast that brings together thoughtful voices from different generations to help make sense of current challenges and propose positive steps forward. This is Democracy Reading Lists are designed to accompany the podcast interview and to provide additional, curated readings for anyone interested […]
An Intimate History of the Twentieth Century
Simone de Beauvoir would not be surprised by #metoo. After all, she wrote the book that laid out just how profoundly women’s position as the subordinate Other warped sexuality, intimacy, and even love . The Second Sex, Beauvoir path-blazing 1949 work of feminist theory, did not mince words on what Kate Manne in Down Girl […]
IHS Book Talk: A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965
The History Faculty New Book Series presents: A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965(University of Illinois Press, 2019)Co-edited by Maddalena Marinari, Madeline Y. Hsu, and María Cristina Garcia A book talk and discussion with Dr. Madeline Y. HsuProfessor of History, and Faculty Affiliate of Asian American Studies, Asian Studies, and Mexican […]
Film Review – Jojo Rabbit (Dir: Taika Waititi, 2019)
“Jojo Rabbit” is deeply imbued with irony. The film joins a long lineage of films using humor to satirize Nazi Germany. Although Taika Waititi treads a worn path in this respect, “Jojo” tells a story with a much younger and more innocent protagonist than Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” or Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds.” Waititi adapted […]
A Small Country Lost in the Files: Albania’s Absence in an American Archive
by Jonathan Parker Research projects don’t always go as planned. When venturing into the archives, historians are confronted with mountains of documents – boxes upon boxes of government memos, letters, records, etc. Knowing what you want to find can help, but the task of finding is still the proverbial needle in a haystack. This is […]
Dean Page Keeton and Academic Freedom at UT Austin: Three Archival Letters
One bonus of archival research is discovering documents irrelevant to the topic but so evocative that they can’t be ignored. In the State Bar of Texas archives, I found three letters from June 1960 between Werdner Page Keeton (1909-1999), Dean of the School of Law of The University of Texas, and two lawyers. Those letters […]