Professor Gloria Whiting recently published an article in the early American history journal, William and Mary Quarterly. Titled “Race, Slavery, and the Problem of Numbers in Early New England: A View from Probate Court,” the …
2020
Richard Sewell (1931-2020)
On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Richard Herbert Sewell, aged 89, passed away peacefully at Agrace Hospice. Richard was born April 11, 1931, in Ann Arbor, Mich. to Herbert and Anna (Broene) Sewell. Like them, he …
Thomas J. McCormick (1933 – 2020)
Thomas Joseph McCormick Jr., emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on July 25 at the age of 87. Tom earned his Ph.D. at UW–Madison in 1960, after receiving his Master’s …
Professor James Sweet Becomes Next President-Elect of AHA
Professor James H. Sweet has been selected as the new President-elect of the American Historical Association. In the 2020 balloting for officers and committee representatives, AHA members voted to elect James Sweet as the next …
Francine Hirsch Talks About New Book on Podcast
Professor Francine Hirsch is featured on a new episode of the SRB Podcast talking about her new book, Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II (Oxford …
Alumna Vaneesa Cook Writes About Work with MIA Project
Alumna Vaneesa Cook (Ph.D. 2015) has written a blog post about her work with the Missing in Action Recovery & Identification Project at UW-Madison. The piece is titled “The Legacy of the 5307th Merrill’s Marauders: …
Graduate Student Leslie Bellais Publishes Chapter on Remembering WWI in Wisconsin
Graduate student Leslie Bellais has published a chapter in the edited collection Home Front in the American Heartland: Local Experiences and Legacies of WWI (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). The chapter is titled “‘Lest We Forget’: Remembering …
Alumna Tyina Steptoe Publishes Piece on Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter
Alumna Tyina Steptoe (Ph.D. 2008) has written a piece on hip-hop and the Black Lives Matter movement for The Conversation, an independent, nonprofit online publisher of commentary and analysis. The piece is titled “Hip-hop is …
Professor Stephen Kantrowitz Tells the History of Juneteenth
Today is Juneteenth, a day that commemorates an important moment in U.S. history – the liberation of nearly 200,000 enslaved Texans in 1865. Although President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 pronounced freedom to all …
Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer Publishes Article on Global Engagement with U.S. Civil Rights
Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer, a historian who specializes in the intersection of race and U.S. foreign relations, has an article published today on foreignaffairs.com, titled “Civil Rights Has Always Been a Global Movement: How Allies …