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As some of our readers may know, the Chair of the History department, Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, will leave UT to become the next Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at UC Santa Barbara. In addition to being a brilliant scholar, inspirational teacher, and remarkable leader, Dr. Berry has also been an incredible […]
Sunday June 19th marks Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, which celebrates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. More than two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers entering Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 informed African American enslaved people that they were free. Juneteenth became an official […]
It’s been another busy year for Not Even Past with more than 130 articles published across the academic year. To celebrate all this incredible academic content we have compiled everything in one page below. Not Even Past‘s reach also continues to grow, and we just broke a million page views over the past 12 months, […]
The success of Not Even Past is made possible by a remarkable group of faculty and graduate student writers. Not Even Past Author Spotlights are designed to celebrate our most prolific authors by bringing together all of their published content across the site together on a single page. The focus is especially on work published by UT […]
Institute for Historical Studies – Monday February 14, 2022 Notes from the Director The 1619 Project has attracted a lot of attention. Some historians have been critical of what they see as factual errors in the original manifesto. Some historians, for example, have questioned The 1619 Project’s representation of independence from Britain as a social movement […]
The Department of History’s Littlefield Lecture Series is pleased to host a conversation and moderated audience Q&A with Nikole Hannah-Jones. NIKOLE HANNAH-JONESPulitzer Prize-Winning Creator of “The 1619 Project”;Staff Writer, The New York Times Magazine;Winner of the MacArthur Genius Award, and of the National Magazine Awardhttp://nikolehannahjones.com/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/11/magazine/11nikole.htmlin conversation withDR. DAINA RAMEY BERRYChair of the Department of History, and Oliver H. […]
From the editor: I joined the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. One of the reasons I wanted to become the editor of Not Even Past was so that I would get an opportunity to learn more about my colleagues’ research but also their teaching. We have numerous prize-winning teachers in the department but […]
by Brandon Render Prior to the publication of “The Case for Reparations” in 2013, Ta-Nehisi Coates was a little-known blogger turned Senior Editor of The Atlantic magazine. Today, Coates has emerged as not only the top contemporary black intellectual, but a leading American thinker – regardless of race – with stinging critiques of President Barack […]
Edward Shore pays tribute to Austinite and Negro Leagues legend Willie "El Diablo" Wells and reflects on the enduring legacies of racism in the National Pastime.
By Charley S. Binkow With Russian troops on the ground in Crimea, Ukraine, it’s tempting to see parallels with Soviet invasions of the past. As the unique and pressing situation in the Ukraine develops, can historians look to history for guidance? Central European University’s Open Society Archives gives us a window into a similar invasion in […]