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[title] image Rethinking Borders
The U.S.-Mexico border, with all its power, danger, intrigue and excitement is even more complex than most acknowledge.
[title] image Casta Paintings
In 1746 Dr. Andrés Arce y Miranda, a creole attorney from Puebla, Mexico, criticized a series of paintings known as the cuadros de castas or casta paintings. Offended by their depictions of racial mixtures of the inhabitants of Spain’s American colonies, Arce y Miranda feared the paintings would send back to Spain the damaging message that creoles, the Mexican-born children of Spanish parents, were of mixed blood.
[title] image Gunter Demnig's "Stumbling Blocks"
“Stumbling blocks” (in German, Stolpersteine) are unobtrusive reminders of the Nazi past.
[title] image Family Outing in Austin, Texas
This photograph captures a 1943 family outing to The University of Texas, in Austin.
[title] image Naming and Picturing New World Nature
When Cassiano dal Pozzo, the Pope’s personal assistant, returned to the Vatican from Spain in 1626, he brought with him a Mexican manuscript on natural history, the Libellus de medicinalibus Indorum herbis.  The "herbal" was a marvelous Mexican manuscript containing illustrations of more than 180 plants.
[title] image Normal Pictures in Abnormal Times
Private family photographs document events, such as births, marriages, and reunions, that are important in the history of individual families, but they can also teach us about the events we think of as real history.
[title] image Black is Beautiful - And Profitable
Black is beautiful.  The Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s popularized this slogan and sentiment, but almost half-a-century earlier, black beauty companies used elaborate advertisements like the one pictured here to sell their vision to uplift and beautify black women.

DISCOVER TEXTS

[title] image Was Einstein Really Religious?
When he was a boy, yes.
[title] image A Medieval Nun, Writing
On a research trip last summer, I found a previously unidentified thirteenth-century manuscript in a library in Poznan, Poland, and recognized that it contains the writings of a late twelfth-century monk named Engelhard of Langheim.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 – 2000
 Fifteen years ago, Alexander Street Press, in conjunction with the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York, Binghamton, launched Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 – 2000, an online database edited by historians
[title] image Yarico's Story
The original story of Yarico is from Richard Ligon’s 1657, A True and Exact History of Barbados:
[title] image Contraception - Letters from French Women, 1960s-70s
 In 1967, Radio Luxembourg recruited Menie Grégoire, a well-known journalist and expert on “women’s” issues, to host an audience Q&A program on the airwaves.
[title] image The Freedmen's Bureau: Work After Emancipation
In March 1865, the U. S. Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau for Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to ease the transition between slavery and freedom for 3.5 million newly liberated slaves.
[title] image Bad Blood
On September 13, 2011, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released its report on the syphilis experiments that were funded and conducted by the US government in Guatemala in the 1940s.