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From the Editors: “Course Notes” is a new series written by and for history students. It allows undergraduate History majors to reflect on their experiences and share useful advice with their high-school, college-bound, and undergraduate peers. “Course Notes” will showcase important academic resources, proven study methods, and valuable test preparation strategies. It will also introduce […]
Note: This article was originally published by Life & Letters, the official magazine of the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Letters and Sciences, in January 2023. Some additional illustrations have been added by Not Even Past. The article is reprinted with permission from Life & Letters. When Christen Smith attended a conference in 2017, she […]
From the Editors: It’s been a remarkable few years for Monica Muñoz Martinez, an award-winning author, teacher, and public historian based in the History department at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2021, Dr. Martinez’s groundbreaking work was recognized when she became a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. The Foundation praised her work “bringing to light […]
In The Global Interior, Megan Black uses the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) controversial history to examine how the U. S. government wielded political and economic power to access natural resources in the American West and influence international policy. The book’s title illustrates the irony of a department responsible for internal affairs being involved in […]
From the editors: One of the joys of working on Not Even Past is our huge library of amazing content. Below we’ve updated and republished Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra’s brilliant and moving review of Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s magisterial Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States. I first came across Felipe Fernández-Armesto many more years ago than […]
By Jesse Ritner For graduate students in History, comprehensive exams (also known as orals, qualifying exams, or comps) are a crucial milestone on the way to finishing the Ph.D. I took my comprehensive exams in the Fall of 2020, defending about five weeks after the first COVID-19 isolation orders. Yet even without a pandemic, reading […]
Local Memory: A History of Music in Austin is a digital public history project by Brian Jones and Michael Schmidt. We created Local Memory to document less-familiar chapters of Austin’s musical history. Anyone familiar with the culture of the Texas capital likely already knows Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and the college town’s reputation as […]
This event featured a panel of formerly incarcerated Black women who are leading the fight for justice. The speakers discussed their work to empower justice-involved women and their efforts to build a more equitable future for those impacted by the system of mass incarceration. This event was hosted by Dr. Talitha LeFlouria and students from […]
Guest: Kyle Mays, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA Host: Alina Scott, PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin Afro-Indigenous histories are central to the history of the United States, tribal sovereignty, and civil rights. Today, Dr. Kyle Mays (Saginaw Chippewa) author […]
Guest: Ada Ferrer, Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University Host: Alina Scott, PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin While the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War are important aspects of the United States and Cuba’s shared history, they are not […]