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Fear Not the Bot: ChatGPT as Just One More Screwdriver in the Tool Kit

February 20, 2023

From the Editors: This article first appeared A User’s Guide to History. It is reprinted here with the kind permission of the author. In Herman Melville’s day, businesses in cities like New York employed small armies of scriveners, as professional copyists were called. They had to write legibly, uniformly and swiftly. A person who could […]

IHS Book Roundtable: Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

December 2, 2022

Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution(Doubleday, 2021) From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British: it was also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, […]

Not Even Past – looking back at 2021-22

September 6, 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, […]

Year in Review – Academic year 2021-2022

May 10, 2022

Year in Review - Fall 2021/Spring 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

April 22, 2022

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

November 9, 2021

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

October 19, 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

March 12, 2021

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

October 16, 2020

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?

February 3, 2020

  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 […]

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