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2020

Graduate Student Leslie Bellais Publishes Chapter on Remembering WWI in Wisconsin

Posted on July 9, 2020

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 …

Posted in 2020, All News, History News, U.S./North American History, War in Society and Culture

Alumna Tyina Steptoe Publishes Piece on Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter

Posted on July 9, 2020

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 …

Posted in 2020, All News, Alumni, History News, U.S./North American History

Professor Stephen Kantrowitz Tells the History of Juneteenth

Posted on June 19, 2020

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 …

Posted in 2020, All News, History News, U.S./North American History

Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer Publishes Article on Global Engagement with U.S. Civil Rights

Posted on June 19, 2020

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 …

Posted in 2020, African History, All News, History News

History of the History Department

Posted on June 16, 2020

We are excited to unveil a new page on our website, the History of the History Department! Our illustrious history stretches back to the mid-19th century when the State of Wisconsin and its flagship university …

Posted in 2020, All News, History News

Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer Featured in Podcast Episode on Racial Injustice and U.S. Foreign Policy

Posted on June 16, 2020

Last week Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer was featured on a new episode of Deep Dish, a podcast from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The episode, titled “How Racial Injustice Shapes U.S. Foreign Policy,” delves …

Posted in 2020, African History, All News, History News

Professor Judd Kinzley Publishes Op-Ed Supporting Chinese Grad Students

Posted on June 15, 2020

On Saturday, June 13th, Professor Judd Kinzley published an op-ed in The Cap Times on the subject of new federal proposals that would limit the number of Chinese graduate students and researchers coming to Wisconsin …

Posted in 2020, All News, East Asian History, History News, War in Society and Culture

Video: “Still Fighting, Seventy Years Later: The Strange Afterlife of World War II in Japan and Asia”

Posted on June 10, 2020

Professor Louise Young, recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, presents her research on World War II memory politics in Japan. Seventy years after Japan’s surrender, why does the conduct and interpretation …

Posted in 2020, All News, East Asian History, History News, Lectures, War in Society and Culture

Statement of Commitment to Eradicating White Supremacy, Institutional Racism, and Anti-Black Violence

Posted on June 8, 2020

The undersigned members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History express their collective grief, anger, and resolve in response to the murder of George Floyd, and the killings of so many African Americans that …

Posted in 2020, All News, History News

History Department Announces 2019-2020 Undergraduate Awards

Posted on June 8, 2020

The Department of History would like to congratulate this year’s undergraduate award recipients! We were fortunate to be able to award over $25,000 to undergraduates this year to support scholarships, writing prizes, research awards, and …

Posted in 2020, All News, Awards, History News
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