The past is never dead. It's not even past
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. The Harry Ransom Center holds a sammelband of three […]
This article has a Spanish version The History of the Present Time (HPT) in Mexico is emerging as a historiographical field in formation—open, evolving, and still being defined. It constitutes an essential space of reflection for understanding the fractures, continuities, and forms of violence that shape contemporary national reality. Unlike traditional historiography, which focuses on […]
This special roundtable brings together four distinguished scholars to examine the arguments advanced in Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters’ recent publication The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World (Harvard University Press, 2026). Drawing on research conducted across 26 archives and tens of thousands of documents, the book offers a new interpretation […]
This essay is part of The Radical Spanish Empire Roundtable, a series of review essays examining the book from different disciplinary perspectives. Read the introduction and explore the other contributions in the series below. As befits a work of such uncommon scope and ambition, The Radical Spanish Empire has already been the focus of a […]
This essay is part of The Radical Spanish Empire Roundtable, a series of review essays examining the book from different disciplinary perspectives. Read the introduction and explore the other contributions in the series below. In The Radical Spanish Empire, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters offer an intriguing interpretation of the formation of the Spanish Empire […]
There was no reprieve from the cold or the hail that accompanied it. With each passing year, the weather claimed more homes, livestock, and children, even as the labor never ceased. In the late sixteenth century, the forests of Lorraine, once an independent duchy near the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Franche-Comté, now part of northern France, […]
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. To my fellow researchers: if you are lucky enough […]
As the nation celebrated the 2025 Fourth of July, flash flooding swallowed the Texas Hill Country. An entire summer’s worth of rain fell in the area, causing the Guadalupe River to rise dramatically in mere minutes. This disastrous deluge tragically claimed the lives of over 100 people. President Donald Trump declared the flood a major […]
Kundai Manamere’s Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890-2015 is an ambitious monograph that redefines and recenters Southern African medical history by foregrounding mobility as akey concept for understanding malaria’s history and circulation. Covering the period 1890 to 2015, Manamere argues that malaria control in Zimbabwe was deeply influenced by and intertwined with the political economy of settler colonialism, land displacement, border policies, and post–colonial realities of […]
This article is part of the series: History Beyond Academia Este artículo tiene una versión en español History, for whom? (Historia ¿para quién?) is the result of a conversation sustained over several years between young historians and a communicator interested in bringing historical reflection into everyday life. From the outset, the main question was how to translate complex topics—both […]