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Building on more than a century of distinguished scholarship and teaching, our faculty and staff serve over 400 undergraduate majors and many other students passionate about history. We are also home to a vibrant community of some 130 graduate students.
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New Faculty
Please join us in welcoming U.S. historian Paige Glotzer and Ottoman/Middle East historian Daniel Stoltz! More here…
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Department News
Bailey Albrecht recently won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award to Japan for 12 months
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Awards provide funds to doctoral students to conduct doctoral research outside the United States in foreign languages and area studies for up to 12 months. The awards are funded through the U.S. Department …
UW-Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account
In celebration of American Archives Month, UW-Madison History major Rena Yehuda Newman was featured on the UW Archives’ Instagram account this morning. They are the Archives’ inaugural Student Historian in Residence. Read more about Rena and …
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History course is featured in OnWisconsin
For the sake of learning — and with occasional family healing — a UW history course is asking students to turn their parents into historical subjects. Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History 221 course, The History of …
Article – “Lessons from the Treblinka Archive: Transnational Collections and their Implications for Historical Research” by Chad S.A. Gibbs
In work for his 1979 book The Death Camp Treblinka, Alexander Donat began the process of locating survivors of the camp and recording their histories. In a telling testament to the lethality of this place, …
Mapping Hot Spots: ‘One Health’ and the History of Infectious Disease Research in Kibale National Forest
With the support of an IRIS Incubator Grant and a Holtz Center Thematic Cluster Grant, Neil Kodesh (History), Tony Goldberg (Pathobiological Sciences), and Josh Garoon (Community and Environmental Sociology) initiated a collaborative research cluster from 2016-18 on Mapping Hot …
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Project
Each year on Constitution Day (September 17), David Fields (UW-Madison Department of History, Ph.D., 2017) and the Center for the Study of the American Constitution (CSAC) likes to call attention to the fact that the entire …
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Multiple Events: Samuel Moyn
History of Science Brown Bag
Seminar – Judd C. Kinzley
History of Science Colloquium
Discussion: What Makes America Great?
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Department Newsletter
Chair’s Welcome, Twenty Years of ARCHIVE, Drunk History, Nature’s Metropolis Turns 25, Wisconsin 101 Progress Report, Faculty/Emeriti News, News Professorships, Graduate Student/Alumni Notes, Undergraduate/Graduate Awards and more!
Merle Curti Lecture Series
The annual Merle Curti Lectures commemorate our late colleague Merle Curti, a pioneer in the practice of American intellectual and cultural history, as well as a beloved member of our department for nearly half a century until his death in 1996.