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, […]
Year in Review – Academic year 2021-2022
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, […]
Five Books to Help Make Sense of the War in Ukraine
On 24 February, 2022, Russia shocked the world by dramatically escalating its longstanding war with Ukraine. Since then, numerous experts—including students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Texas at Austin—have performed a vital public service by commenting directly on the Ukraine crisis, unpacking its complicated origins and exposing its devastating impact. Inspired by their […]
IHS Roundtable: “The Eyes of Texas”: Historians’ Perspectives on the Origins of the Song
Institute for Historical Studies – Monday, November 8, 2021 Notes from the Director “The Eyes of Texas” is such a controversial school song that last year the President of UT established a committee to investigate the origins of the song and its evolution over time. The Committee concluded that the song did not have explicit, obvious […]
In Memoriam: Dr. Robert A. Divine, 1929-2021
On the passing of George W. Littlefield Professor Emeritus in American History Dr. Robert Alexander Divine on October 13, 2021, Professor H.W. Brands and Professor Mark Atwood Lawrence offer this remembrance. The Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin lost one of its true giants last Wednesday when Robert Divine, a preeminent […]
Latin American and Caribbean History: Collected Works from Not Even Past
Since its creation in 2010, Not Even Past has published a huge range of articles connected to Latin American and Caribbean History. To mark our new partnership with the Benson Latin American Collection, we have collected all these articles in one compilation page organized around 17 topics. These articles (156 in total) are a testament […]
Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Eric Busch
By Alejandra C. Garza, PhD candidate, AHA Career Diversity Fellow 2018-2020 This is the fourth post in a wider series, Navigating the PhD and Beyond: Lessons from the AHA Career Diversity Initiative. The series is presented and curated by Alejandra Garza as part of the AHA Career Diversity for Historians Initiative. As the 2018-20 graduate student […]
Maurice Cowling and AJP Taylor: What Would They Think of Brexit?
Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924 (1971)A.J.P. Taylor, English History, 1914-1945 (1965) After three years of riotous gyrations and mayhem, Brexit has finally happened. The United Kingdom officially left the European Union last week, an official agreement being signed between the two entities that formally severs ties in a (hopefully) orderly manner. Britain […]
The Spirit of Honorable Compromise
By H. W. Brands When Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention in September 1787, he was approached by a woman of Philadelphia, who asked what the deliberations of Franklin and his colleagues had given the young nation. “A republic,” he said, “if you can keep it. Henry Clay was ten years old that summer. He […]
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (2015)
Sven Beckert places cotton at the center of his colossal history of modern capitalism, arguing that the growth of the industry was the “launching pad for the broader Industrial Revolution.” Beckert follows cotton through a staggering spatial and chronological scope. Spanning five thousand years of cotton’s history, with a particular focus on the seventeenth to […]