Due to COVID-19, the Department of History office will be closed beginning on March 17th until further notice. During this time, faculty and staff will be telecommuting from home and will be most accessible via email. If you have general inquiries, please direct them to historydept@history.wisc.edu. Please note that, effective March 23rd, all in-person classes will be moved to an online format for the remainder of the semester.
Welcome! Building on more than a century of distinguished scholarship and teaching, our faculty and staff serve over 400 undergraduate majors along with many other students passionate about history. We are also home to a vibrant community of some 130 graduate students in both History and the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.
Upcoming Courses
Enrollment for summer and fall is open! Learn more about our offerings for undergraduate and graduate courses in History and the History of Science.
Congratulations, Graduates!
We are proud of our undergraduate majors and wish we could celebrate with them in person. The class of 2020 has demonstrated great resilience and accomplished so much! View our virtual graduation celebration.
Resources for COVID-19
In this time of extraordinary challenges, the History Department is committed to caring for our community and has compiled a list of resources that may be useful. Department Resources for COVID-19
Department News
Volume 23 of ARCHIVE Now Available Online
The newest volume of ARCHIVE is here! The University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Journal of History has published their 23rd volume. Editor-in-Chief Isabelle Cook, along with editors Mingcong Bai, Madeline Brauer, Jack Hayes, Matt Kass, Alison …
New Episode: Ask a Historian podcast Season 1, Episode 3
Why have Asian Americans often been the target of xenophobic and racist attacks during disease outbreaks? The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a spike in anti-Asian, especially anti-Chinese, racism. Why have Asian Americans often …
Professor Emerita Florence Bernault’s New Book Selected as a Choice Magazine 2019 Outstanding Academic Title
Professor Emerita Florence Bernault’s recent book, Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon (Duke University Press, 2019), has been selected as a Choice Magazine 2019 Outstanding Academic Title! According to the reviewer, “this should …
Graduate Student Jennifer Stitt Publishes Personal Essay on COVID-19
Grad student Jennifer Stitt has published a personal essay on COVID-19 in Guernica, an online magazine dedicated to global arts and politics. The article is titled “Will COVID-19 Strengthen our Bonds?: Living with Chronic Illness …
Professor Lynn Nyhart Receives WARF Named Professorship
Congratulations to Professor Lynn Nyhart, who has been appointed a WARF named professorship! “These awards, which come with $100,000, honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research …
New Episode: Ask a Historian podcast Season 1, Episode 2
On the latest episode of the Ask a Historian podcast, we speak with Professor Gregg Mitman about the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Liberia. How did people’s faith in or mistrust of their government shape the …
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