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The success of Not Even Past is made possible by a remarkable group of faculty and graduate student writers. Not Even Past Author Spotlights are designed to celebrate our most prolific authors by bringing together all of their published content across the site together on a single page. The focus is especially on work published by UT […]
Institute for Historical Studies – Monday February 14, 2022 Notes from the Director The 1619 Project has attracted a lot of attention. Some historians have been critical of what they see as factual errors in the original manifesto. Some historians, for example, have questioned The 1619 Project’s representation of independence from Britain as a social movement […]
The Department of History’s Littlefield Lecture Series is pleased to host a conversation and moderated audience Q&A with Nikole Hannah-Jones. NIKOLE HANNAH-JONESPulitzer Prize-Winning Creator of “The 1619 Project”;Staff Writer, The New York Times Magazine;Winner of the MacArthur Genius Award, and of the National Magazine Awardhttp://nikolehannahjones.com/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/11/magazine/11nikole.htmlin conversation withDR. DAINA RAMEY BERRYChair of the Department of History, and Oliver H. […]
From the editor: I joined the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. One of the reasons I wanted to become the editor of Not Even Past was so that I would get an opportunity to learn more about my colleagues’ research but also their teaching. We have numerous prize-winning teachers in the department but […]
by Brandon Render Prior to the publication of “The Case for Reparations” in 2013, Ta-Nehisi Coates was a little-known blogger turned Senior Editor of The Atlantic magazine. Today, Coates has emerged as not only the top contemporary black intellectual, but a leading American thinker – regardless of race – with stinging critiques of President Barack […]
Edward Shore pays tribute to Austinite and Negro Leagues legend Willie "El Diablo" Wells and reflects on the enduring legacies of racism in the National Pastime.
By Charley S. Binkow With Russian troops on the ground in Crimea, Ukraine, it’s tempting to see parallels with Soviet invasions of the past. As the unique and pressing situation in the Ukraine develops, can historians look to history for guidance? Central European University’s Open Society Archives gives us a window into a similar invasion in […]
In the study of history, it’s easy to fall back on national identities: “Irish music,” an “English accent,” “American Exceptionalism” are just a few examples. But a closer examination of the local cultures—music, dialects, history—that exist within nations demonstrates how misleading those generalizations can be. Just look through one of the British Library’s “Sound Maps” and you’ll be convinced.
Historian Jules Tygiel presents not only an account of Jackie Robinson’s heroic struggle to integrate Major League Baseball, but a larger history of links between African American history, baseball, and the modern civil rights movement. Baseball’s Great Experiment further raises questions about race and sports in our current day.
Over sixty years ago, in November 1963, President John F. Kennedy took a fateful trip to Texas. It would be the last of his life. The trip had four planned stops: San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, with a final planned fundraiser dinner in Austin. In the days after his shocking assassination, JFK was buried at Arlington […]