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Not Even Past is proud to partner with This is Democracy, a groundbreaking podcast that brings together thoughtful voices from different generations to help make sense of current challenges and propose positive steps forward. This is Democracy Reading Lists are designed to accompany the podcast interview and to provide additional, curated readings for anyone interested […]
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, […]
By Amina Marzouk Chouchene, PhD candidate, Manouba University There has been a consistent recent interest in tracing the fragile nature of the British Empire. An increasing number of historians such as Richard Price, Kim Wagner, Harald Fisher-Tiné, and Jon Wilson have considered the precariousness of empire from different perspectives.[1] The ever-present threats of what was […]
By Raymond Hyser As part of the Institute for Historical Studies’ Climate and Context lecture series, historian and specialist in disease, medicine, and public health, Dr. Nükhet Varlık presented her work on climate, migration, and plague during the early modern Ottoman Empire. Dr. Varlık is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark and an […]
In Spring 2020, Dr Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra taught a new variant of his highly successful course, Colonial Latin America through objects. The course description is as follows: Objects (furniture, textiles, tools, maps, books, guns, kitchen ware, buildings, settlements, monuments, ships, tombs ) often shed more light about past societies than text themselves. This course explores the […]
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 […]
In 2020-21, the Institute for Historical Studies will convene a series of talks, workshops, and panel discussions centered on the theme “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented”. As part of that, we are delighted to publish this roundtable discussion consisting of three reviews focused on Carolyn Merchant’s The Death of Nature, a classic […]
John Darrell's run as a celebrity exorcist during the later 1590s began to go downhill after a young man he was treating in Nottingham accused the wrong person of witchcraft: William Sommers pointed to Alice Freeman, cousin of one of city's highest-ranking officials, as the cause of his possession.1 Sommers's sister chimed in, too, claiming that Freeman had previously killed a child of hers with black magic. Despite this two-pronged accusation, however, the charges didn't hold up in court, and sentiment toward Darrell soured as many in town became skeptical about the authenticity of Sommers' possession and frustrated with the disruptions the exorcist's presence in the city were causing…
We are currently experiencing one of the most disruptive pandemics in modern history. The COVID-19 pandemic came in the wake of a series of global ecological disturbances, climate fluctuations, uncontrolled urbanization, habitat destruction, decline in biological diversity, the sixth age of extinction, and the biggest human displacement in modern history. While policy makers seek to […]
The History Faculty New Book Series presents: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.(Basic Books, 2020) A book talk and discussion with: Peniel E. JosephBarbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Professor of History, and Founding Director Center for the […]