Cronon to lead AHA annual meeting – January 3 – 6, 2013 When historians gather in New Orleans in January for the 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, the UW–Madison History Department will be especially well represented. Bill Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, is the president of the …
UW–Madison News Gerda Lerner, Robinson Edwards Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Wednesday, Jan. 2 in an assisted-living facility in Madison. She was 92 years old. “Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique,” says social and political activist Gloria Steinem. “She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her …