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The Visualizing Cultures site provides a deep dive into the history of China and Japan through carefully curated collections of primary documents. Created by a team of scholars based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the page features image galleries, lesson plans, and even an online introductory-level course. It has partnered with archives around […]
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 second of two parts in a series entitled, Hidden in Plain Sight: Reflections On A Mexican Baroque Enigma. You can read the […]
By Sarah Porter Over the past few decades, community organizers and scholars have successfully drawn public attention to mass incarceration in the United States through a variety of mediums including print, film, and digital projects. Yet, the magnitude of the American prison system often encourages researchers and activists to employ quantitative methods. These approaches, while […]
From the editors: Not Even Past is delighted to publish this introduction to new research by four remarkable students in the History Honors Program at UT. Their groundbreaking research spans different periods and places and was conducted in the most difficult of circumstances dues to the COVID-19 pandemic. Undergraduate research is at the heart of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 views on slavery. […]
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, […]