Una pintura enigmática cuelga en el Kunsthalle Mannheim en Alemania: Édouard Manet retrató un grupo de hombres en uniformes azules fusilando a tres figuras, un emperador de México caído entre ellos. Aunque el pintor francés despreciaba la “pintura histórica,” la fuerte imagen de un Hasburgo muriendo frente a un pelotón de fusilamiento en México pedía […]
Putin’s Effort to Make Conquest Acceptable Again
By Jeremi Suri September 30, 2022 marked the abrupt end to a long era of world history. In a dark, threatening, and bombastic speech to his cowering, hand-picked apparatchiks, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country was annexing almost one-fifth of Ukrainian territory – the eastern provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. Russian […]
Teaching Slavery, Possibilities for Historical Restitution, and the Papers of Indigenous Enslaver Rebecca McIntosh Hawkins Hagerty
You cannot find the Muscogee Nation in most state-standardized social studies curricula. Take it from an educator who taught high school history in Buffalo, NY for seven years. The sovereign nation, which recently dropped the settler-dubbed “Creek” from its official title, is one of the largest in the country, with a membership of nearly 90,000.[1] […]
Not Even Past – looking back at 2021-22
It’s been another busy year for Not Even Past with more than 130 articles published across the academic year. To celebrate all this incredible academic content we have compiled everything in one page below. Not Even Past‘s reach also continues to grow, and we just broke a million page views over the past 12 months, […]
Celebrating 200 Episodes of This Is Democracy: A Conversation about Conversations with Jeremi and Zachary Suri
By John Gleb Jeremi Suri is worried about the way Americans talk about politics. “There’s something missing,” he tells me. “We have voices and words being thrown around, but it’s not democracy.” Suri and I are discussing This Is Democracy, the immensely popular podcast he produces in collaboration with Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS). […]
Year in Review – Academic year 2021-2022
It’s been another busy year for Not Even Past with more than 130 articles published across the academic year. To celebrate all this incredible academic content we have compiled everything in one page below. Not Even Past‘s reach also continues to grow, and we just broke a million page views over the past 12 months, […]
15 Minute History – The 1844 Philadelphia Riots
Guest: Zachary M. Schrag, Professor of History at George Mason University Host: Alina Scott, PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin In 1844, Philadelphia, a hub for Irish immigration to the United States, witnessed a series of violent Nativist riots that targeted Irish Americans and Roman Catholic churches. In […]
The Trial of the Juntas: Reckoning with State Violence in Argentina
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 April 1985, the historic trial of the military juntas that had ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1982 began in Buenos […]
Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and the Queer History of the Old Clothes Scandal
In 1867, less than three years after the assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, his (now widowed) wife and former first lady, Mary, traveled to New York in hopes of securing funds to cover her mounting expenses. Having acquired a significant amount of debt prior to her husband’s reelection and finding herself in an even […]
Remembering Pinochet: Dictatorship, Power, and Pushback
For the plebiscite of ‘88, Chile had its first political campaign in fifteen years. La Campaña del NO tried to make it fun. We all had many dark tales to tell, and maybe a moral obligation to tell them, but sad stories don’t get votes. Moreover, a very fine line, invisible to carabineros, divided protesting […]