November is Native American Heritage Month, and to help bring awareness to Wisconsinites about some of the issues the Native American community have been facing, both past and present, Professor Sasha Suarez spoke with local Milwaukee news station WTMJ-TV. In the segment, Professor Suarez discusses her research in which “multiple city reports acknowledge that bosses were hesitant to …
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer on receiving the 2021 Kenneth Jackson Award from the Urban History Association for How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press, 2020)! This award is given for the best book in North American urban history published in 2020. According to the award announcement, …
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Thomas Spear for winning the American Historical Association’s Waldo G. Leland Prize for the best reference work published over the last five years! The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources are a collection of over 75 critical studies of the methods and sources historians use to research and write African …
Congratulations to our graduate program alumni, Jennifer Holland (PhD, 2013) and Cori Simon (PhD, 2020), on their awards from the Western Historical Association! At the WHA meeting last week, Jennifer Holland was presented with two book awards, the David J. Weber Prize and the W. Turrentine Jackson Award for Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement …
Congratulations to alumnus David Harrisville (PhD 2017) on the publication of his first book, The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 (Cornell University Press, 2021). Set to release in November 2021, The Virtuous Wehrmacht explores the myth of the German armed forces’ innocence during World War II by …
Professor Gregg Mitman‘s new book, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia, will be available this November 2021 from The New Press. “In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew …
Congratulations to Professor Francine Hirsch on receiving two recent awards for her 2020 book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II (Oxford University Press). The book has received the 2021 Heldt Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, as well as the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize …
The Department of History is proud to welcome Meri Rose Ekberg as the new Assistant Director for the UW–Madison Public History Project! The Public History Project is a multi-year effort to uncover and give voice to those who experienced, challenged and overcame prejudice on campus. Meri Rose joins the Project team with years of experience …
On a recent episode of The “What is Asia?” Podcast, UW–Madison graduate student Jeffrey Guarneri is featured talking about “Constructed Images of Nagasaki in 1930s Japan.” Guarneri discusses the images of Nagasaki that were constructed through popular media by business elites in order to strengthen and maintain their position as an important center of overseas trade, which the …
Patrick Walsh, who recently published an article in the Journal of the History of Biology. Titled, “Making a French Connection: Darwin, Brown-Séquard and the Epilepsy Studies,” Walsh’s article contributes to a long debate in the history of biology about the fraught relationship between Charles Darwin and French biologists in the 1860s, prompted by the controversial publication of On …