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2019

Professor Emeritus David Sorkin Publishes New Book

Posted on January 6, 2020

David Sorkin, a historian of Jewish and European history, has published a new book titled Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2019). Sorkin is a Professor Emeritus of our department and …

Posted in 2019, All News, Books, Emeriti, European History, History News, Jewish History

Professor Lapina Interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio

Posted on December 18, 2019

This past Sunday, December 8th, Professor Elizabeth Lapina was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio for a segment titled “Knightly Culture and the Crusades.” The host was Norman Gilliland, who co-produces the weekly WPR program  “University …

Posted in 2019, All News, European History, History News, Jewish History, War in Society and Culture

History Major Takes a Horticulture Class with Grandparents Who Audit

Posted on December 18, 2019

Danielle Wendricks, a History major also studying Community and Nonprofit Leadership and Educational Policy at UW-Madison, took Horticulture 120 this semester with her grandparents, who audited the class as part of UW’s Senior Guest Auditor …

Posted in 2019, All News, History News

Gloria Whiting publishes article in Slavery & Abolition

Posted on December 18, 2019

Professor Gloria Whiting recently published an article in Slavery & Abolition titled “Emancipation without the courts or constitution: the case of Revolutionary Massachusetts.” The essay rethinks the process by which freedom was inaugurated in Massachusetts, …

Posted in 2019, All News, Gender and Women’s History, History News, U.S./North American History

Professor Hennessy Longlisted for 2020 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Posted on December 18, 2019

Professor Elizabeth Hennessy, whose book On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden (Yale University Press) was published this year, is on the longlist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson …

Posted in 2019, All News, History News, History of Science Medicine and Technology, Latin American and Caribbean History

History Department 2019 Newsletter – “The Past in the Present”

Posted on December 12, 2019

History Newsletter 2019-20 (pdf) Chair’s Welcome History Welcomes New Members ARCHIVE in NYC The Digital City, Migration, and You Faculty/Staff/Emeritus News and more… This issue and past copies of the newsletter can also be found …

Posted in 2019, All News, History News

Alumnus Sam Gee Publishes Review Essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Posted on December 10, 2019

Recent graduate Sam Gee (B.A. in History and Religious Studies, 2017) has published a review essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The essay covers a recent biography of the prominent twentieth-century Austrian philosopher …

Posted in 2019, All News, Alumni, History News

Grad Student Jeffrey Guarneri Publishes Article in Global Urban History Project Blog

Posted on December 10, 2019

Graduate student Jeffrey Guarneri recently published a piece titled “Cartographies of Global Connectivity in Interwar Japan,” in the Global Urban History Project blog. The GUHP is a well-known and respected transnational urban history association. Guarneri’s …

Posted in 2019, All News, East Asian History, History News

History Alumnus Publishes Book on Kazakhstan in World War II

Posted on November 27, 2019

History alumnus Roberto Carmack (PhD, 2015) has recently published a book based on his dissertation research at UW-Madison. The book is titled Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire (University Press …

Posted in 2019, All News, Books, European History, History News

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s Book Makes Washington Post’s Top 50 Nonfiction Reads of 2019

Posted on November 27, 2019

Please join us in congratulating Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, whose most recent book The Ideas that Made America: A Brief History (Oxford University Press, 2019) was featured in the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction …

Posted in 2019, All News, Awards, History News, Intellectual History Group, U.S./North American History
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