Two teaching assistants from the Department of History, Ludwig Decke and Emma Wathen, have received a Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards. These awards recognize their excellence in teaching. Ludwig and Emma both received the Early Excellence in Teaching Award. Ludwig Decke is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History, specializing in the intersection of Jewish, …
Ashley Brown, Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society and Assistant Professor History, has written a brief article for History.com. “How Althea Gibson Faced Racial Barriers–Even as a Tennis Champion” was published on March 1. Gibson is the subject of Professor Brown’s new book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of …
History Majors Maddy McGlone and Rachel Lynch talk about the new digital exhibition “1914: Then Came Armageddon” in an article published by the UW Libraries. 1914: Then Came Armageddon is the first fully digital exhibition on an original software platform developed by UW–Madison Libraries. Rachel Lynch and Maddy McGlone were undergraduate student researchers on this project …
Professor Paige Glotzer discusses the history of housing segregation on PBS Wisconsin’s University Place. The episode is available to view online and will air on Monday, March 20th at 9:00 PM. Housing segregation is the subject of Professor Glotzer’s book, How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press, 2020). …
In his Feb. 6, 2023 critic-at-large book review for the New Yorker, “Making the News,” Louis Menand features affiliated faculty Kathryn McGarr‘s new book, City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (University of Chicago Press). Professor Kathryn McGarr is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass communication …
From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grad Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first African American to win titles at the …
This past fall, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted Professor Louise Young. An honorary society and policy organization founded in 1780, the Academy elects exceptionally accomplished individuals and engages them in advancing the public good. Young signed the Book of Members at an Induction Ceremony that celebrated recently elected artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. …
Jim Sweet ends his term as the 2022 President of the American Historical Association with a presidential address at the annual American Historical Association Conference. The address, entitled “Slave Trading as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy, from the Calabar Massacre to BLM, 1767-2022” will take place on Friday, January 6 from 5:30-6:30 in the Philadelphia Marriott …
Professor Judd Kinzley recorded an interview on the history of US-China relations for University of the Air on Wisconsin Public Radio. University of the Air invites distinguished faculty guests from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to discuss topics in music, art, writing, theater, science, education, and history. During the interview, Professor Kinzley explains the ups and …
Catherine M. Burns (PhD 2011) is the recipient of the 2022 James Phinney Baxter Award for best article in the scholarly journal Maine History. “ ‘It May Be Questionable’: Granger v. Avery and the Redaction of Article X, Section 5 from the Maine Constitution” examines why Maine, since 1876, has excluded from the state constitution …