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Institute for Historical Studies – Monday February 14, 2022 Notes from the Director The 1619 Project has attracted a lot of attention. Some historians have been critical of what they see as factual errors in the original manifesto. Some historians, for example, have questioned The 1619 Project’s representation of independence from Britain as a social movement […]
This episode of IHS podcasts highlights the work of Dr. James Sidbury, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University where he is also a faculty member of the Center for African and African American Studies . The episode also features Dr. Cañizares-Esguerra, the Director of the IHS, and Ashley Garcia, a […]
In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better visualize the ethical and political implications of archival practices globally. The conference was held in February 2022 and the videos of all the presentation will be available soon. Thinking […]
by Gwendolyn Lockman The best part of reading for comprehensive exams in graduate school is getting to read scholarship that inspires, even if it is not directly related to your dissertation research. I am a historian of labor and leisure in the U.S. West, so my comprehensive exams encompassed readings in U.S. History, divided into […]
The success of Not Even Past is made possible by a remarkable group of faculty and graduate student writers. Not Even Past Author Spotlights are designed to celebrate our most prolific authors by bringing together all of their published content across the site together on a single page. The focus is especially on work published by UT […]
Megan Kate Nelson has written a captivating history of the southwestern theater of the American Civil War. There more than one war took place as different groups of people envisioned futures dependent on control of the region. The balance of perspectives makes it clear the Civil War was not just a battle for the preservation […]
Monday September 20, 2021 • Webinar 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM With the arrival of Iturbide’s Mexican Empire in Tejas, the alliance of Apache with Comanche and with patriot-exile-Tejano raiders became the temporary victors. The creation of Empire led to the return of diplomatic negotiations between Comanches -Apache-Tejano raiders and Iturbide’s Empire. The new Empire relied on […]
Scholars of the modern Middle East have long identified the region’s integration into the global economy as one of the most dramatic processes of the nineteenth century. Two recent studies – Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism and On Barak’s Powering Empire: how Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked […]
Monday August 30, 2021 • Zoom 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM This roundtable shows the perils of dismissing as “irrational” the knowledge and beliefs of any political community, be them antivaxxers or 19th-century Fijans. Our panelists take apart the polarities that characterize lay understandings of knowledge: Science vs Religion, Science vs Magic, Belief vs. Doubt. The panelists […]
IHS podcasts are a new podcast series initiated by the Institute for Historical Studies’ Director, Dr Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. They are paired with weekly workshops and are designed to foster discussion between graduate students and distinguished scholars in the field. Along with graduate students and guests, each episode features Dr Cañizares-Esguerra and Ashley Garcia, a PhD […]