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“Doing” History in the Modern U.S. Survey: Teaching with and Analyzing...
Originally posted on Process History on September 5, 2017. by Christopher Babits Near the end of the spring semester, my department asked me to teach a summer session of U.S. History since 1865. I had...
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Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century...
by John Carranza Clare Sears, associate professor of sociology at San Francisco State University, explores cross dressing and its place in the formation of San Francisco as an urban center in the mid-...
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The Politics of a Handkerchief: Personal Thoughts on the Motif of Female...
By Paula O’Donnell (All photos are courtesy of the author unless otherwise stated.) Windswept litter and flaming logs on asphalt. Backlit figures swaying to handmade percussive instruments and bongos....
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White Women and the Economy of Slavery
By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Harrington Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin, 2018-2019 In 1849, sixty-five “ladies of Fayette County” Tennessee wanted their State legislature to know that a...
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A Brief History of Feminism by Patu (illustrations) and Antje Schrupp and...
By Namrata B. Kanchan “Let this really be brief!” was the first thought that crossed my mind as I read the title of Patu and Schrupp’s book. It was listed on the syllabus for a course on Gender and...
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The Racial Geography Tour at UT Austin
By Edmund T. Gordon For almost two decades, Ted Gordon has been leading tours of UT Austin that show how racism, patriarchy, and politics are baked into the landscape and architecture of the campus....
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Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott (2019)
By Jesse Ritner The easy correlation contemporary American and British cultures build from sex to pregnancy, pregnancy to birth, and birth to childrearing within a nuclear family is far from uniform...
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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa...
By Tiana Wilson After reading this book in three different graduate seminar courses, I can confidently argue that Marisa Fuentes’ Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive is one...
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Our New History Ph.D.s
For so many students this year, the cancellation of commencement meant the lack of an important milestone. And in this unsettling time, with it many demands on our attention, it’s possible to overlook...
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Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World By...
By Tiana Wilson Many recent studies on chattel slavery in the Atlantic World have decentered the voices of the colonizers in an effort to creatively reimagine the inner lives of Black people, both...
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