Millions of tweets and millions of state documents. Intimate oral histories and international radio addresses. Ancient pottery and yesterday’s memes. Historians have access to this immense store of online material for doing research, but what else can we do with it? In Spring 2018, graduate students in the Public and Digital History Seminar at UT […]
Reading Magnum: A Photo Archive Gets a New Life
Magnum Photos was formed in 1947, in the wake of the Second World War, by four photographers seeking to retain the rights to their images while working on projects that aligned with their own interests rather than solely responding to commissions from magazines and newspapers. Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour, George Rodger, and Robert Capa created a business model that fundamentally changed the practices of photojournalism
A Rebellion Remembered: The Irish Easter Rising’s New Digital Archive
IHS Workshop: Contested Customs: Reinventing Indigenous Authority in Ubaque, New Kingdom of Granada
This paper explores the changing forms of Indigenous authority in Ubaque, a highland Andean valley of the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia), in the sixteenth century. According to Hispanic law, caciques were local nobilities who enjoyed a right to rule their communities keeping to their customs. As such, they were recognized as part of […]
Introducing “Uncharted Waters,” a New Article Series from Not Even Past and the Clements Center for National Security
Commentators and scholars have long represented the United States as the supreme guarantor of a well-tempered international order. Today, however, the picture looks far murkier. Agents of American international relations find themselves confronting uncertainty both at home and abroad. New and unpredictable threats to national security, public health, and the global environment loom large on […]
The New World and Beyond: A Review of New World Nature
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 Archive as a Contested Object of Knowledge: A Conversation with Dr. Sylvia Sellers-García
by Roberto Young 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 […]
Counter Archives and Archives of Resistance
By Anahí Ponce 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 […]
Archives beyond Intention: The Readings and Writings of Dr. Kelly McDonough
by Claudio Eduardo Moura de Oliveira 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 […]
IHS Roundtable: Between Neocolonial Collecting and Anticolonial Resistance? The Logic of Afro-Latiné/Latiné/Latin-American Archives in the United States
Institute for Historical Studies – Monday February 21, 2022 In coordination with Archiving Objects of Knowledge with Latin American Perspectives, a conference presented by LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, February 24–25, 2022. Notes from the Director As the Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin celebrates the centennial of its founding, the Institute […]