By Diego A. Godoy 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. This article first appeared in Tex Libris, a blog from the Office of the Director of the […]
The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico
By Matthew Butler and John Erard 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. This article first appeared in Portal magazine, an annual publication of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies […]
Introducing a New Collaboration between Not Even Past and LLILAS Benson
By Melissa Guy, Director, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection LLILAS Benson is proud to feature our collections in Not Even Past during 2021, the centennial year of the Benson Latin American Collection. This is a fitting collaboration, because from its very beginnings, the Benson’s collection has been inextricably linked with history and historians, especially […]
Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera
Many of the Latin American archives located in the US have something of a history of exclusivity, which benefitted researchers with insider knowledge of their contents, or those with the time to blindly explore. By its own estimation, the Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera within the Princeton University Library was “practically inaccessible” before 2015. […]
Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence (1909)
by Peter Worger The Founding Fathers have been getting a lot of attention lately with the release of Hamilton on Disney Plus and the Pulitzer Prize being awarded to the director of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones. Among other issues, many posts online have called the Founding Fathers to task for their […]
Digital Archive Review: Latin American and Caribbean Digital Primary Resources
Open-access digital archives have become a crucial resource for humanities research. Online sources eliminate the costs and hassles of travel to and from the archives that preserve the actual documents. They also expand access, by granting students, scholars, teachers, and interested members of the public the opportunity to explore the sources themselves. To that end, […]
IHS Climate in Context: New Scholarship on Climate, Plague, and the Medieval World
By Raymond Hyser As part of the Institute for Historical Studies’ Climate and Context lecture series, historian and specialist in disease, medicine, and public health, Dr. Nükhet Varlık presented her work on climate, migration, and plague during the early modern Ottoman Empire. Dr. Varlık is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark and an […]
New Books in Native American and Indigenous Studies You Need to Read on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
For decades Native American and Indigenous activists have advocated for a move away from Columbus Day. They argue that such commemorations are a reminder of the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the Americas that followed the arrival of Europeans in the region. Because of Indigenous peoples’ activism, legislatures across the US have started to replace […]
IHS Climate in Context Digital Archive Review: Tools and Resources for Studying Environmental History
By Brittany Erwin On 21 September, the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will welcome the first speaker of its 2020-2021 program: Dr. Dagomar Degroot. The theme for the IHS this year is Climate in Context: Historical Precedent and the Unprecedented. Dr. Degroot is an Associate Professor of Environmental History […]
Digital Archive Review – Imágenes y relatos de un viaje por Colombia
By Alexander Chaparro-Silva Review of: Imágenes y relatos de un viaje por Colombia [Images and Narratives of a Journey Through Colombia]. Biblioteca Virtual. Banco de la República de Colombia. https://www.banrep.gov.co/impresiones-de-un-viaje/ What was it like for a European to travel and live in nineteenth-century Latin America? Imágenes y relatos de un viaje por Colombia [Images and […]