The past is never dead. It's not even past
By Alejandra C. Garza, Ph.D. candidate, AHA Career Diversity Fellow 2018-2020 This is the fifth post in a wider series, Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Lessons from the AHA Career Diversity Initiative. The series is presented and curated by Alejandra Garza as part of the AHA Career Diversity for Historians Initiative. As the 2018-20 graduate student […]
Compiled by Alejandra C. Garza, Ph.D. candidate, AHA Career Diversity Fellow 2018-2020 This is the third post in a wider series, Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Lessons from the AHA Career Diversity Initiative. The series is presented and curated by Alejandra Garza as part of the AHA Career Diversity for Historians Initiative. As the 2018-20 graduate […]
History professors often look for ways to use the past to inform present debates. With long-past events, that sometimes requires some acrobatic leaps over centuries or millennia, but in my own courses on violence in American history, the connections are often pretty obvious. Every day, a stream of new or ongoing violent events invite historical […]
Este artículo es parte de la serie: History Beyond Academia This article has an English version Historia ¿para quién? es el resultado de una conversación sostenida durante varios años entre historiadoras jóvenes y una comunicadora interesadas en llevar la reflexión histórica al día a día. Desde el inicio, el planteamiento principal fue cómo traducir temas complejos […]
Este artículo es parte de la serie: History beyond Academia This article has an English version La historia es, ante todo, un esfuerzo por comprender el pasado. Quienes la estudiamos buscamos reconstruir e interpretar lo que ocurrió, utilizando métodos que nos permitan hacerlo con cuidado y rigor. Para ello trabajamos con documentos del pasado (lo […]
This article is part of the series: History Beyond Academia Este artículo tiene una versión en español. History is, above all, an effort to understand the past. Those of us who study it seek to reconstruct and interpret what happened, using methods that allow us to do so with care and rigor. We work with […]
Fredric Jameson has a new book—his last. Published posthumously in 2024, only a few months after his passing, it offers an idiosyncratic philosophical journey through his own deeply personal engagement with French theory. Just as he has done since 1985 as a Professor at Duke University, in this work Jameson takes the time to reflect […]
“Anglos and Mexicans; Still Making Texas” 40 Anniversary Symposium will take place on February 20-21, 2026 at the University of Texas at Austin. More details at the end of the article. When I first read Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986, it felt like I was reading about the entire world. My entire world. By that […]
In The Sewards of New York, Thomas P. Slaughter offers a captivating exploration of the Seward family’s multifaceted place in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although not written as a traditional political biography, Slaughter emphasizes that “politics, and particularly the abolition of slavery” remains central to the Sewards’ collective story (p. 2). Slaughter looks beyond […]
Note: This article was originally published by Life & Letters, the official magazine of the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Letters and Sciences, in January 2023. Some additional illustrations have been added by Not Even Past. The article is reprinted with permission from Life & Letters. When Christen Smith attended a conference in 2017, she […]