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HPS Talk: How the Histories of Medicine and Public Health Have Fared in the Media During Covid-19

History and Philosophy of Science Talks – Friday, October 29, 2021 Rebecca Onion is a Slate staff writer and the author of Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). The following links connect to articles referenced in the talk: https://slate.com/human-interest/the-vault http://www.rebeccaonion.com/clips/ https://www.vqronline.org/criticism/2014/10/letters-note https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/women-hand-washing-more-than-men-why-coronavirus.html https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/coronavirus-medicare-for-all-history-pandemic-social-safety-net.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/05/1918-pandemic-cultural-memory-literature-outka.html https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/spanish-flu-women-nurses-heroism.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/07/contagion-guilt-school-reopening-covid.html […]

Preservation and Decay as Public History at the Moon-Randolph Homestead

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 […]

A More Expansive Atlantic History of the Americas: An Interview with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

A More Expansive Atlantic History of the Americas: An Interview with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

From the editors: This interview was first published in August 2021 by the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Named after Arnold J. Toynbee, the foundation seeks to promote scholarly engagement with global history. The original interview can be accessed here. This interview is published here as part of a new collaboration with the Toynbee Prize Foundation. The […]

Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Viewing Juan de Miranda’s Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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

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 […]

Austin’s Queer Migration History

Austin's Queer Migration History

by Lauren Gutterman From the editors: This article first appeared in QT Voices, which is the online magazine of the LGBTQ Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin. For the original article see here. Austin is a city with a rich LGBTQ past, one that both echoes and diverges from queer history in other […]

IHS Podcast: Colonial Peru’s Fractional Freedoms meet Morgan’s Thesis: American Freedom, American Slavery

IHS podcasts are a new podcast series initiated by the Institute for Historical Studies’ Director, Dr Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. They are paired with weekly workshops and are designed to foster discussion between graduate students and distinguished scholars in the field. Along with graduate students and guests, each episode features Dr Cañizares-Esguerra and Ashley Garcia, a PhD […]

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 […]

The McFarland Cuban Plantation Records

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. The Benson Latin American Collection is a beacon for Latin Americanist scholars the world over. It has drawn researchers to examine […]

IHS Podcast: Apache Diaspora in Four Hundred Years of Colonialism vs. “Toltec Antiquities” Diaspora in Early Republican Mexico”

IHS podcasts are a new podcast series initiated by the Institute for Historical Studies’ Director, Dr Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. They are paired with weekly workshops and are designed to foster discussion between graduate students and distinguished scholars in the field. Along with graduate students and guests, each episode features Dr Cañizares-Esguerra and Ashley Garcia, a PhD […]

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