The past is never dead. It's not even past
By Jesse Ritner Passing Red Hill, we turned onto Colorado Route 133. Ahead of us towered Mount Sopris, an almost 13,000 foot volcano. 133 shoots towards the Elk Mountain Range, a row of peaks frequently topping 12,000 feet, but Sopris still looks immense in comparison. Casting its shadow over the quaint town of Carbondale, it […]
Not Even Past is delighted to congratulate Sandy Chang and Gabrielle Esparza,the winners of the 2021 Lathrop and Perry prizes. The awards are for the best PhD dissertation (Lathrop) and MA thesis (Perry) in History at the University of Texas at Austin. Lathrop Prize: Sandy Chang, “Across the South Seas: Gender, Intimacy, and Chinese Migration to British […]
By Tiana Wilson This article first appeared in Perspectives on History. The original can be accessed here. It’s been nearly a year since COVID-19 forced many states to shut down and more than a year since I last stepped into an archive. As a fourth-year PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, I […]
by Adam Clulow Digital Humanities is a capacious term that means different things to different people. For me, Digital Humanities is at its best when it emphasizes “making, connecting, interpreting, and collaborating”.[1] When I did my doctorate, Digital Humanities was just emerging as a set of skills and I paid very little attention to it. […]
The History Faculty New Book Series presents:Sex in an Old Regime City Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789 A conversation with JULIE HARDWICKJohn E. Green Regents Professor of History, and UT Distinguished Teaching ProfessorUniversity of Texas at Austinhttps://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell and KARIN WULFProfessor of History, College of William & Mary, andDirector, Omohundro Institute of Early American […]
This and other articles are part of a new collaboration with the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Visit the Briscoe’s website to learn more about its collections. This article first appeared in CenterPoints and is reprinted with permission here. During the 1980s, the United States government provided covert assistance to the Mujahideen, an Afghan rebel force […]
In June 2020, controversial monuments began to come down across America. This time, not only were confederate statues on the menu—those of Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Christopher Columbus and even (in Portland, Oregon) George Washington were as well. Tied to larger protests against police brutality and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, it is no […]
By Adam Clulow 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. For more than […]
From the Editors: The Not Even Past Works in Progress series highlights groundbreaking new research that is not yet published. The idea is to give our readers a first look at current projects and upcoming publications. As the first in the series, we are fortunate to feature an important new work, The Radical Spanish Empire: Petitions and the Creation of the New […]
by Nükhet Varlik This article originally appeared in The Conversation. It can be seen here. The article is republished here in connection with Dr Varlik’s talk in the Institute for Historical Studies. When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be […]