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The guest editors of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos’s special issue on Catholic visual culture discuss how images have shaped religious memory, political activism, and debates over identity in Mexico from the Cristero War to the present.

What happens to the history of technology when we take animals seriously as agents rather than as objects of control?

Lauren M. E. Goodlad discusses what literary theory can teach us about large language models, why language is more than data, and what it means to put the “humanities in the loop” in debates about AI.

Refresh your syllabus with JSAH Roundtables that bring timely, field-expanding perspectives on trans experiences, race, Indigeneity, and global architectural histories into the classroom.

If Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" has you thinking about Homer's epic, dive deeper with a curated selection of free-to-read scholarship from "Classical Antiquity" that reveals new ways to understand one of literature's greatest adventures.

The American Revolution didn't end in 1776—or on the East Coast. A new special issue of "California History" explores its lasting impact from California's unique vantage point.

The guest editors of Afterimage's new special issue explore how artists and activists are reimagining the U.S.–Mexico border through creative forms of resistance.

Preview the new Summer 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."

Toffoli discusses the images & technologies that helped construct the Border Patrol's public image, the historical roots of today's surveillance culture along the U.S.–Mexico border, & why visual history remains essential for understanding contemporary debates over immigration & state power.

From a country music legend's sewing machine to the US–Mexico border, a new special issue of the "Journal of the American Musicological Society" uses everyday and extraordinary objects to reveal the many histories of American music.