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Here at NOT EVEN PAST we often get submissions and suggestions that don't quite fit into our usual section categories: personal essays, announcements and news related to history, and history related to the news, interesting links, interviews, other blogs we want you to know about, publication announcements, and so on.

So we have decided to start a blog for posting the many interesting things we find.

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New Look, New Features this Summer on NEP
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 09:38

Beginning in June we will be starting to post University, High School, and Middle School students' history projects here at Not Even Past. In order to do that, we will have to stop posting anything for a few weeks. We will also have to postpone our Book Club for May 22 until after the summer. But we'll be live again on June 1 with ahost of new features for summer!

Janet Davis on the History of Dog-Eating in the U.S.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 16:10

Our colleague in the American Studies department at UT, Janet Davis, has an op-ed in today's New York Times, entitled "The Dog Ate My Birth Certificate."

History Carnival, May 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 01:08

Welcome to the History Carnival for May, 2012.

A New History Journal Produced by Students
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 01:55

by Kristie Flannery

The first issue of a new student-oriented online journal, History in the Making, was launched this month in Sydney, Australia.

Humanitarian Intervention Before YouTube
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 07:33

by Brian McNeil

Joseph Kony has been making waves across the Internet the past few days thanks to a slick, emotional video produced by Invisible Children, a nongovernmental organization based in San Diego, California. Who is Joseph Kony?

Twitter for Historians
Monday, March 5, 2012 - 01:30

Atop My Hobby-horse, Twitter

Rachel Herrmann

Victoria Bynum - Littlefield lecturer
Friday, March 2, 2012 - 09:25

        The University of Texas History Department is pleased to announce that Professor Victoria E. Bynum will deliver the annual 2012 Littlefield Lectures.

Black Amateur Photography
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 14:56

The passion for recording our lives, fostered today by the availability of simple digital cameras and posting sites like Flickr, has a long history.

Take our (Very Short) Survey and Win a Book!
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 01:11

If you have a few moments to spare, it would be very helpful to us if you would take this very short reader survey. 

The Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 11:03

The "Spanish Flu" that dispatched poor Lavinia Swire on Downton Abbey last week killed more people in 1918-19 than died in World War I itself.