This week, Jeremi and Zachary talk with Jill Lepore about her new book, These Truths: A History of the United States, and why an acknowledgement and understanding of our country’s true past can unite us. Guest Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff […]
IHS Panel: Beyond Empire and Borderlands: How to Write a Connected History of the 19th-Century Mexican and U.S. Republics?
In conjunction with the XVI Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México conference on “Los federalismos en la historia de México y México-Texas.” The histories of the 19th century Mexican and the US republics are obviously deeply entangled. Mexico lost half of its territory to the USA. But were 19th-century Mexico and the US solely connected through the […]
Celebrating George Forgie
From the editors: The Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin has been honored by its association with groundbreaking scholars, teachers, and public intellectuals. George Forgie, who retired recently, is one of them. He is an extraordinary historian, a truly remarkable teacher, and a beloved colleague who influenced generations of students. Here, […]
Early Modern and Colonial Histories of Globalization: An Interview with Ivonne del Valle, Anna More, and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (Part II)
Foreword by John Gleb This is the second half of a two-part article. To read the first part, click here. Ivonne del Valle (University of California-Berkeley), Anna More (Universidade de Brasília), and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (University of California-Irvine) are prominent scholars of colonial Latin America. Earlier this year, they sat down with Fernando Gomez Herrero […]
Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (2014)
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 […]
Not Even Past – looking back at 2021-22
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, […]
NEP Author Spotlight – Alina Scott
The success of Not Even Past is made possible by a remarkable group of writers, both graduate students and faculty. Not Even Past Author Spotlights are designed to celebrate our most prolific authors by bringing all of their published content across the magazine together on a single page. The focus is especially on work published by UT […]
NEP Faculty Feature: Dr. Daina Ramey Berry
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 […]
Resources for Understanding and Celebrating Juneteenth
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 […]
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, […]