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40th Annual Curti Lectures
Join us in welcoming Bethany Moreton and N. D. B. Connolly, who will give Curti Lectures on Nov. 14-15, followed by a roundtable on Nov. 16. More here…
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (HSMT) brings together pioneering faculty members in History and Medical History & Bioethics. More here…
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Department News
Tobacco’s World of Racial Capitalism: A Conversation with Nan Enstad
Professor Nan Enstad is the guest on an episode of the biweekly podcast “Edge Effects,” produced by graduate students in the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) who edit the digital magazine …
“The Last Word”, a short essay by Alfred McCoy, published by Columbia College Today
“The Last Word” By Alfred W. McCoy ’68 One glorious afternoon in fall 1965 — the start of my sophomore year — I arrived at Baker Field to find crew practice canceled. Instead of returning …
Dan Stolz’s book featured on Social Science Research Council forum
Professor Daniel Stolz’s book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge, 2018), was featured in a book forum on The Immanent Frame, an interdisciplinary web journal on religion, …
Heavy hitter Allan ‘Bud’ Selig tapped as 2018 winter commencement speaker
December’s University of Wisconsin–Madison commencement speaker hopes to knock it out of the ballpark. He certainly knows his way around one. Allan “Bud” Selig, commissioner emeritus of Major League Baseball, will deliver the charge to …
Britt Tevis (Ph.D. 2016) co-authored an article about the link between antisemitism and anti-immigrant sentiments.
Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking a synagogue by Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis On Saturday, a shooter opened fire inside a synagogue in the heart of a heavily Jewish neighborhood in …
History graduate student Jennifer Gramer is a 2018-2019 Mellon Public Humanities Fellow
History graduate student Jennifer Gramer is a 2018-2019 Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities. The fellowships, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are designed to give graduate students in the …
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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.