In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better visualize the ethical and political implications of archival practices globally. The conference was held in February 2022 and the videos of all the presentation will be available soon. Thinking […]
The Intra-American Slave Trade Database: A Review and Interview with Gregory O’Malley and Alex Borucki
In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better visualize the ethical and political implications of archival practices globally. The conference was held in February 2022 and the videos of all the presentation will be available soon. Thinking […]
Four Books I Recommend from Comps – Law, Knowledge, and Empire in the Middle East and North Africa
by David Rahimi Before moving to the final dissertation stage of the PhD, graduate students in History must first pass their comprehensive exams (also known as orals, qualifying exams, or comps). These are designed in part to show mastery of a student’s chosen teaching and research fields. Experiences vary depending on how the student and […]
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
Institute for Historical Studies – Wednesday, October 20, 2021 A Roundtable Inspired by Sumit Guha’sTribe and State in Asia Through Twenty-Five Centuries(Columbia University Press, 2021) Notes from the Director Every literate person today will encounter the word “tribe” in many settings. What does this word mean? When and how did its use begin? Is it […]
Preservation and Decay as Public History at the Moon-Randolph Homestead
By Gwendolyn Lockman Past the local dump and the interstate, and separated by foothills from the nearby historic neighborhoods of Missoula, Montana, the Moon-Randolph Homestead can be found, steeling itself against the modern world but not quite stuck in the past. It is an unusual historical site where the ecological and the human, and the […]
Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Viewing Juan de Miranda’s Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
By Susan Deans-Smith (Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin) and John W. Smith (Independent Scholar, University Affiliate Research Fellow-Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies) This article is the first of two parts in a series entitled, Hidden in Plain Sight: Reflections On A Mexican Baroque Enigma. You can read the […]
Bringing Together the Relaciones Geográficas and Topográficas of the Spanish Empire
From the editors: In 2021, Not Even Past launched a new collaboration with LLILAS Benson. Journey into the Archive: History from the Benson Latin American Collection celebrates the Benson’s centennial and highlights the center’s world-class holdings. In Spanish, the word relación encompasses both to narrate (relatar) and to connect (relacionar). The Relaciones genre, prevalent from the fifteenth […]
Primary Source: Notes for a Napoleonic Scandal
This and other articles in Primary Source: History from the Ransom Center Stacks represent an ongoing partnership between Not Even Past and the Harry Ransom Center, a world-renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Visit the Center’s website to learn more about its collections and get involved. In 1815, William Warden was surgeon of HMS Northumberland […]
Teaching Global Environmental History
The latest interview in our NEP Conversations series focuses on Global Environmental History, a highly innovative, exciting and challenging course taught by Dr. Megan Raby. The course description is as follow: Global Environmental History explores how human societies and natural environments have shaped each other in world history. This semester, the course will focus on […]
Tasting Empanadas and Red Wine in Chile’s Popular Unity Revolution
Fifty-one years ago this month, a momentous political event began in the South American country of Chile. For the first time in the Americas, and arguably the world, voters went to the ballot box and elected a government that was committed to forging a democratic path toward socialism. The Popular Unity (UP) coalition was comprised […]