Following an article she wrote Monday for CityLab concerning Trump’s tweets about Baltimore, Professor Paige Glotzer was interviewed for a Time Magazine feature titled “Long Before Trump’s Tweets, Baltimore Had Become a ‘Target.’ Here’s How Segregation Helped Create Its Problems.” In the article, Glotzer states, “The tweets said two things – that Baltimore was full …
One of our program’s oldest alumni, Jenny Morrill (M.A. 1905) is the subject of a recently published article in On Wisconsin about a mysterious book theft that occurred at UW–Madison libraries over 100 years ago. Morrill was a graduate student in our program in 1905, completing her thesis under the influential American historian Frederick Jackson …
Professor Paige Glotzer, who researches urban housing segregation, recently published an opinion piece with CityLab titled “What ‘Infests’ Baltimore? The Segregation History Buried in Trump’s Tweets.” Professor Glotzer’s forthcoming book, titled Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, discusses how suburban developers, including Baltimore’s Roland Park Company, ushered in modern housing segregation with the …
Professor Richard Keller had an opinion piece published in the Washington Post on the subject of the recent heat wave in Europe. Keller is a professor in the Department of History, as well as the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on the history of European and …
Recently graduated history major Daniel Ahrendt (B.A. December 2018), has received the 2019 Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research from the Center for the Humanities! The Iwanter Prize is an annual award of $2,000 given to a graduating senior who, “through a senior thesis and general academic distinction, demonstrates outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad and …
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen recently published an opinion piece for The New York Times, titled “The Vicious Fun of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle.” The article reflects back on the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the Algonquin Round Table, a regular gathering of writers, actors, critics, and wits that began in 1919 and lasted …
The History Department will remember Dr. Colin Palmer (Ph.D. 1970), who passed away on June 20, 2019 in Kingston, Jamaica. An alumnus of our program and a giant in his field, Palmer helped to expand the study of the African diaspora and the Atlantic slave trade over his 40-plus year career as a historian. Palmer …
As one of our instructors teaching an online History course this summer, Brian Hamilton decided to engage his students in producing a podcast interview for Edge Effects magazine, a digital magazine produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment at UW–Madison. The students of History 227 – Race and Environment in the History of the …
The History Department Remembers Professor Emeritus Frank “Mike” Clover Professor Emeritus Frank “Mike” Clover passed away on Saturday, July 13th, 2019 at the age of 79. Clover received his B.A. from UW–Madison in 1962, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. He then taught in our department for 34 years, joining the …
This summer, the Department made a post on social media about the 100th anniversary of Wisconsin’s ratification of the 19th Amendment. One of our alumni, Jillian Slaight (Ph.D. 2017), reached out to let us know that she had written a report for the Wisconsin State Legislative Reference Bureau on that very topic. We wanted to …