Due to COVID-19, the Department of History office is currently closed and faculty and staff are working remotely. If you have general inquiries, please direct them to historydept@history.wisc.edu. The Department of History is working under the guidance of Smart Restart, and the most up to date fall 2020 semester information can be found on the Smart Restart webpage.
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.
History SOAR Gateway
This section is intended for incoming first-year and transfer students interested in the History Major or Certificate or in exploring course options in History and History of Science. History SOAR Gateway.
Statement of Commitment
Statement of Commitment to Eradicating White Supremacy, Institutional Racism, and Anti-Black Violence. We draft this statement of solidarity keenly aware that our own institution has to play a role in this quest for meaningful change. Statement of Commitment
Welcome New Faculty
Please join us in welcoming Brandon Bloch, Devin Kennedy, Monica Kim, Sasha Maria Suarez, Allison Powers Useche, and Daniel Williford. More here…
Department News
Kathryn Ciancia publishes new book
Kathryn Ciancia’s new book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020) is now available in e-book format. Physical copies will be available in early December. Description: As a …
Professor Aaron Rock-Singer Publishes Article on Islamic Religious & Social Movements
Professor Aaron Rock-Singer has a new article in the journal Religions, titled “Practices of Piety: An Alternative Approach to the Study of Islamic Movements.” “This article challenges the dominant organization-centered focus of the study of …
Professor Mou Banerjee Writes About Teaching Colonialism in History
For a roundtable on Teaching Colonialism in History, Professor Mou Banerjee has written an introduction focused on “Decolonizing Pedagogy: History as a Reckoning with the Past.” Of her own teaching, Professor Banerjee states: “When I …
Edward Coffman (1931-2020)
Edward McKenzie Coffman, distinguished military historian and revered teacher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on September 16, 2020, at Thomson-Hood Veteran Center in Wilmore, Kentucky. He was 91. “Mac” Coffman was born in Hopkinsville, …
Welcome New Faculty
Brandon Bloch – Faculty Page I am a historian of modern Europe, with an emphasis on Germany and its global entanglements. My research and teaching foreground questions of democracy, citizenship, and human rights. I am …
Professor Francine Hirsch Publishes New Book
Physical copies of the book are now available! Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War II to try the former Nazi leaders for war crimes, the Nuremberg trials, known as the International Military Tribunal …
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Madison History Club
The Madison History Club brings UW–Madison alumni together with people across Madison who are curious about the past and eager to learn and discuss history with others.
The History Lab
Attention Students! Let us help you with your paper or research project, no matter your stage in the process.
Department Newsletter
Chair’s Welcome, History Welcomes New Members, ARCHIVE in NYC, The Digital City, Migration, and You, Faculty/Staff/Emeritus News, and more…
Courses
The History Department offers a wide array of undergraduate and graduate courses under two subject headings: HISTORY and HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Many of our undergraduate courses are open to Senior Guest Auditors.
Faculty Bookshelf
Listing of books written or edited by current History Department faculty.
The History of The History Department
Highlights benchmarks in the department’s institutional history and key changes in its curriculum, faculty, and students.