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Here's a nice write-up and video about my recent collaboration with Les Stewart from Trophy Brewing Co. to recreate two ancient Mesopotamian beers. We served these to @altonbrown.bsky.social last week on-stage at NC State's new annual speaker series "The Human Factor" chass.ncsu.edu/news/2025/09...
Tasting History
NC State history professor Tate Paulette and Trophy Brewing’s Les Stewart teamed up to recreate 4,500-year-old Mesopotamian beer, giving modern drinkers a taste of Sumerian culture.
chass.ncsu.edu
September 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Here's a nice write-up and video about my recent collaboration with Les Stewart from Trophy Brewing Co. to recreate two ancient Mesopotamian beers. We served these to @altonbrown.bsky.social last week on-stage at NC State's new annual speaker series "The Human Factor" chass.ncsu.edu/news/2025/09...
Centennial Panel was a blast! 🎉 Panel 1: "Why Study History?" (Career success for undergrads!) Panel 2: New Research from our grad students. Plus, tours of the Khayrallah Center & Roman Archaeology Lab! 🏛️ Thanks to all who joined our celebration! 🚀
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Centennial Panel was a blast! 🎉 Panel 1: "Why Study History?" (Career success for undergrads!) Panel 2: New Research from our grad students. Plus, tours of the Khayrallah Center & Roman Archaeology Lab! 🏛️ Thanks to all who joined our celebration! 🚀
🎓 Student Work Comes to Life! Queer History of Durham Tour
We're incredibly proud to announce the launch of the Queer History of Durham Tour!
This tour is the successful final project from two talented students, Julia Lasure and Karina Burbank.
Tickets: www.preservationdurham.org/queerhistory...
We're incredibly proud to announce the launch of the Queer History of Durham Tour!
This tour is the successful final project from two talented students, Julia Lasure and Karina Burbank.
Tickets: www.preservationdurham.org/queerhistory...
www.preservationdurham.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🎓 Student Work Comes to Life! Queer History of Durham Tour
We're incredibly proud to announce the launch of the Queer History of Durham Tour!
This tour is the successful final project from two talented students, Julia Lasure and Karina Burbank.
Tickets: www.preservationdurham.org/queerhistory...
We're incredibly proud to announce the launch of the Queer History of Durham Tour!
This tour is the successful final project from two talented students, Julia Lasure and Karina Burbank.
Tickets: www.preservationdurham.org/queerhistory...
Community connection in action! 🤝 Our Public History students met with the West Chapel Hill Cemetery Descendants. They discussed vital strategies for protecting and advocating for this historically Black burial site before a visit to the grounds. Thank you to all the community members who joined us.
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Community connection in action! 🤝 Our Public History students met with the West Chapel Hill Cemetery Descendants. They discussed vital strategies for protecting and advocating for this historically Black burial site before a visit to the grounds. Thank you to all the community members who joined us.
Intro to Public History class spent the day at the Princeville Homecoming event! 🏛️ We hosted an educational booth dedicated to the cultural reformation and preservation of Princeville, NC. Great to be part of the community's work to keep its history alive!
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Intro to Public History class spent the day at the Princeville Homecoming event! 🏛️ We hosted an educational booth dedicated to the cultural reformation and preservation of Princeville, NC. Great to be part of the community's work to keep its history alive!
🎉 Big congrats to Julia Rudolph on the publication of her new chapter! 🥳
Check out her work: "Land, Credit and the Constitution: Debtor Protections and Catholic Rights in Eighteenth-Century Ireland." in Law and Constitutional Change, 1st ed. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Check out her work: "Land, Credit and the Constitution: Debtor Protections and Catholic Rights in Eighteenth-Century Ireland." in Law and Constitutional Change, 1st ed. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Land, Credit and the Constitution (Chapter 8) - Law and Constitutional Change
Law and Constitutional Change - October 2025
doi.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🎉 Big congrats to Julia Rudolph on the publication of her new chapter! 🥳
Check out her work: "Land, Credit and the Constitution: Debtor Protections and Catholic Rights in Eighteenth-Century Ireland." in Law and Constitutional Change, 1st ed. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Check out her work: "Land, Credit and the Constitution: Debtor Protections and Catholic Rights in Eighteenth-Century Ireland." in Law and Constitutional Change, 1st ed. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles
This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can …
acoup.blog
October 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
Our team crushed it at the ASALH conference! 👏
So proud of Public History MA students Liam McCandless and Katie Boatner, PhD student John Goncalves, and Professor Nishani Frazier for their compelling presentations.
So proud of Public History MA students Liam McCandless and Katie Boatner, PhD student John Goncalves, and Professor Nishani Frazier for their compelling presentations.
October 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Our team crushed it at the ASALH conference! 👏
So proud of Public History MA students Liam McCandless and Katie Boatner, PhD student John Goncalves, and Professor Nishani Frazier for their compelling presentations.
So proud of Public History MA students Liam McCandless and Katie Boatner, PhD student John Goncalves, and Professor Nishani Frazier for their compelling presentations.
Few world regions have experienced as many extinctions as the Western Hemisphere. This talk examines the historical roots of the biodiversity and extinction crisis in the Americas to better understand the social, cultural, and economic patterns that have resulted in high rates of species loss.
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Few world regions have experienced as many extinctions as the Western Hemisphere. This talk examines the historical roots of the biodiversity and extinction crisis in the Americas to better understand the social, cultural, and economic patterns that have resulted in high rates of species loss.
Congrats to Dr. Jordan Rogers on another great article. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Vicinus Ideology and Discourses of Urban Neighborliness In Plautus
muse.jhu.edu
September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Congrats to Dr. Jordan Rogers on another great article. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Explore the world’s first great beer culture with Tate Paulette! Join the AIA on Sept 17 at 8 PM ET | 7 PM CT | 6 PM MT | 5 PM PT for "Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia." Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#Archaeology #AIA #AncientMesopotamia #BeerHistory
#Archaeology #AIA #AncientMesopotamia #BeerHistory
September 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Explore the world’s first great beer culture with Tate Paulette! Join the AIA on Sept 17 at 8 PM ET | 7 PM CT | 6 PM MT | 5 PM PT for "Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia." Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#Archaeology #AIA #AncientMesopotamia #BeerHistory
#Archaeology #AIA #AncientMesopotamia #BeerHistory
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I realize I forgot to post out last week's blog post, so this (last) week on the blog: more on peasants!
We're turning to the question of labor and so we're seeing how we can estimate what the resource demands for survival and comfort might look like.
acoup.blog/2025/08/22/c...
We're turning to the question of labor and so we're seeing how we can estimate what the resource demands for survival and comfort might look like.
acoup.blog/2025/08/22/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More
This is the start of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) discussing the structures of life for pre-modern peasants, who made up the majority of all humans who have ever lived. In the …
acoup.blog
August 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I realize I forgot to post out last week's blog post, so this (last) week on the blog: more on peasants!
We're turning to the question of labor and so we're seeing how we can estimate what the resource demands for survival and comfort might look like.
acoup.blog/2025/08/22/c...
We're turning to the question of labor and so we're seeing how we can estimate what the resource demands for survival and comfort might look like.
acoup.blog/2025/08/22/c...
Interesting article using epidemiological mapping techniques to trace the spread of rumor in the Great Fear of 1789. Interesting use of modeling built on careful archival work (Lefebvre 1932). www.nature.com/articles/d41...
An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology
The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Interesting article using epidemiological mapping techniques to trace the spread of rumor in the Great Fear of 1789. Interesting use of modeling built on careful archival work (Lefebvre 1932). www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Welcome new MA student Finneas!
Finneas is passionate about equal access to queer education and in expanding the existing narrative about what it has meant to be LGBTQ+ in the United States.
They wish to work with LGBTQ+ communities and activists at the grassroots level to preserve their histories.
Finneas is passionate about equal access to queer education and in expanding the existing narrative about what it has meant to be LGBTQ+ in the United States.
They wish to work with LGBTQ+ communities and activists at the grassroots level to preserve their histories.
August 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Welcome new MA student Finneas!
Finneas is passionate about equal access to queer education and in expanding the existing narrative about what it has meant to be LGBTQ+ in the United States.
They wish to work with LGBTQ+ communities and activists at the grassroots level to preserve their histories.
Finneas is passionate about equal access to queer education and in expanding the existing narrative about what it has meant to be LGBTQ+ in the United States.
They wish to work with LGBTQ+ communities and activists at the grassroots level to preserve their histories.
The audiobook version of @tatepaulette.bsky.social fantastic book about the history of beer in Mesopotamia was released today! Give it a listen. rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...
RBmedia | In the Land of Ninkasi
Listen to the audiobook In the Land of Ninkasi, written by Tate Paulette, narrated by Ryan Lee Dunlap.
rbmediaglobal.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The audiobook version of @tatepaulette.bsky.social fantastic book about the history of beer in Mesopotamia was released today! Give it a listen. rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...
This article highlights Professor Dr. Nicholas Robins. He's been leading trips to Cuba since 2014, drawing on his 34 years of personal connection to the country to create a unique opportunity for students to conduct field research and engage with the local community. global.ncsu.edu/learning-bey...
Learning Beyond Borders: Making the World their Classroom
global.ncsu.edu
August 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This article highlights Professor Dr. Nicholas Robins. He's been leading trips to Cuba since 2014, drawing on his 34 years of personal connection to the country to create a unique opportunity for students to conduct field research and engage with the local community. global.ncsu.edu/learning-bey...
This article highlights the research of four NCSU professors who use food to explore a range of topics including our very own Tate Paulette, an associate professor of history, discusses his work on ancient Mesopotamian beer culture. You can read the full article here:
chass.ncsu.edu/news/2025/07...
chass.ncsu.edu/news/2025/07...
CHASS Faculty Examine Food’s Moral, Social and Cultural Impact
Four faculty members from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences explore how food connects to larger cultural, social and ethical questions.
chass.ncsu.edu
July 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This article highlights the research of four NCSU professors who use food to explore a range of topics including our very own Tate Paulette, an associate professor of history, discusses his work on ancient Mesopotamian beer culture. You can read the full article here:
chass.ncsu.edu/news/2025/07...
chass.ncsu.edu/news/2025/07...
Digging into history in Cyprus! The Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project (MVAP) just wrapped up excavating a prehistoric cemetery in western Cyprus. Our field school gave students hands-on archaeology training, plus lectures and field trips to amazing sites and museums.
July 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Digging into history in Cyprus! The Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project (MVAP) just wrapped up excavating a prehistoric cemetery in western Cyprus. Our field school gave students hands-on archaeology training, plus lectures and field trips to amazing sites and museums.
@tracibrynne.bsky.social co-authored the essay "Settler Ableism: Indigeneity, Unsettling the Archive, and Accountability in History." in this new book which delves into how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record.
University of Illinois Press
University of Illinois Press
July 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@tracibrynne.bsky.social co-authored the essay "Settler Ableism: Indigeneity, Unsettling the Archive, and Accountability in History." in this new book which delves into how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record.
University of Illinois Press
University of Illinois Press
The Only Painting van Gogh Ever Sold: Discover The Red Vineyard (1888) www.openculture.com/2025/07/the-...
The Only Painting van Gogh Ever Sold: Discover The Red Vineyard (1888)
It may have crossed your mind, while beholding paintings of Vincent van Gogh, that you'd like to own one yourself someday. If so, you'll have to get in line with more than a few billionaires, and even...
www.openculture.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Only Painting van Gogh Ever Sold: Discover The Red Vineyard (1888) www.openculture.com/2025/07/the-...
Ever wonder about the origins of beer? 🍻Dr. Tate Paulette spills the beans (and barley!) on all things ancient beer on the latest episode of the Bible and Archaeology podcast!
Listen here: youtu.be/DD6UoU2Zh48?...
Listen here: youtu.be/DD6UoU2Zh48?...
How Beer Shaped Ancient Mesopotamia | Bible & Archaeology
YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology
youtu.be
June 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Ever wonder about the origins of beer? 🍻Dr. Tate Paulette spills the beans (and barley!) on all things ancient beer on the latest episode of the Bible and Archaeology podcast!
Listen here: youtu.be/DD6UoU2Zh48?...
Listen here: youtu.be/DD6UoU2Zh48?...
Congratulations Garrett McKinnon! His article, “The 1960 U-2 Crisis Reconsidered: Technology, Masculinity, and U.S. Airpower’s ‘Unmanning" received honorable mention for this year’s (SHAFR) Stuart Bernath Scholarly Article Prize!👏👏
academic.oup.com/dh/article/4...
academic.oup.com/dh/article/4...
The 1960 U-2 Crisis Reconsidered: Technology, Masculinity, and U.S. Airpower’s ‘Unmanning’*
“It can be said that a man of more heroic mold would have blown up his plane and committed suicide, but perhaps Powers couldn’t and certainly he didn’t do
academic.oup.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Congratulations Garrett McKinnon! His article, “The 1960 U-2 Crisis Reconsidered: Technology, Masculinity, and U.S. Airpower’s ‘Unmanning" received honorable mention for this year’s (SHAFR) Stuart Bernath Scholarly Article Prize!👏👏
academic.oup.com/dh/article/4...
academic.oup.com/dh/article/4...
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New article written with Emily Wakild and Claudia Leal:
"Porous Conservation: The Complex History of Residents in National Parks in Latin America”
Published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, you can access it on the link:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ASVKY...
"Porous Conservation: The Complex History of Residents in National Parks in Latin America”
Published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, you can access it on the link:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ASVKY...
Porous Conservation: The Complex History of Residents in National Parks in Latin America
This article analyzes the changing relations between national parks and people in Latin America between the 1930s and the present. In this region, conservation policies initially showed flexibility...
www.tandfonline.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
New article written with Emily Wakild and Claudia Leal:
"Porous Conservation: The Complex History of Residents in National Parks in Latin America”
Published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, you can access it on the link:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ASVKY...
"Porous Conservation: The Complex History of Residents in National Parks in Latin America”
Published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, you can access it on the link:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ASVKY...
Mark your calendar for an upcoming talk with Dr. Craig Friend to celebrate his new book, “Becoming Lunsford Lane, The Lives of an American Aeneas.”
June 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Mark your calendar for an upcoming talk with Dr. Craig Friend to celebrate his new book, “Becoming Lunsford Lane, The Lives of an American Aeneas.”
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Join us on Thursday, May 29th at 7:00 pm for a Hybrid Public Program by Craig Thompson Friend—Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/12758
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/12758
May 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Join us on Thursday, May 29th at 7:00 pm for a Hybrid Public Program by Craig Thompson Friend—Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/12758
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/12758