The minutes of a 1922 meeting of the Council of the Jewish Community of Salonica, today's Thessaloniki in Greece, recorded a cordial but contentious discussion.
Diasporic Charity and Salonica’s Jewish Community after the Fire of 1917
A Gold Mine in a Silver Edition: Jim Hogg County, March 9, 1939
Browsing through the online finding aids for the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, I was stunned to discover that they housed an original copy of a 1939 newspaper from Hebbronville, my hometown in South Texas. The curiosity quickly got the better of me and I was at the repository the next day calling up […]
Childhood Has a History
History reminds us that conceptions of childhood and children’s essential nature, theories of child development, and approaches to childrearing – all have shifted profoundly over time.
Digital Pedagogy: THATCamp Comes to UT Austin
More than eighty librarians, digital scholars, technologists, and administrators convened at the University of Texas at Austin in January to address the question: how do digital tools affect teaching and learning in today’s classrooms?
Episode 76: The Trans-Pacific Slave Trade
Guest Kristie Flannery found Diego's story in the Spanish colonial archives, and narrates his tale in the broader context of the powerful political and economic forces at work in Spain's global empire.
Vietnam between the United States and Yugoslavia
A specter is haunting Europe (also the United States and, really, much of the globe)—the specter of a new Cold War. In recent years columnists have been invoking the memory of the global ideological conflict that governed much of the violence and geopolitics of the twentieth-century.
The War in Vietnam Revisited
The on-going legacy of the War in Vietnam.
The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast, by Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. (2014)
In this now classic study of Brazilian regionalism, the reader is presented with the story of how the Northeastern region of Brazil was “nordestinizado,” or transformed into an imagined space of misery, violence, folklore, fanaticism, and rebellion.
From Yellow Peril to Model Minority
Unlike their working-class counterparts, who were seen as unwanted labor competition and incapable of sharing American democratic values, Chinese intellectuals were seen as members of China’s leadership class and culturally compatible. Educating them in the United States was a friendly, inexpensive, yet effective means of extending American influence over China.
The Seldoms Bring LBJ and the 1960s Into the Present in Their Investigation of How Power Goes
In the contemporary dance theater work Power Goes, which arrives at McCullough Theatre on the campus of the University of Texas on September 16th and 18th, courtesy of Texas Performing Arts, the Briscoe Center for American History, and the LBJ Presidential Library, the Chicago-based dance ensemble, The Seldoms, propose that we can dance our way deeply into the historical past.