UW-Madison History Professor Pablo F. Gómez recently published a new book with University of Chicago Press. Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality is a provocative account of the violent …
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Devin Kennedy Publishes Book: Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy
UW-Madison History Professor Devin Kennedy recently published a new book, Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy, with Columbia University Press. Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how …
Marcella Hayes Receives Award for Forthcoming Book: Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima
UW-Madison History Professor Marcella Hayes’ forthcoming book, Black Self-Governance: The Making of Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Lima, is already receiving praise. Black Self-Governance has won the 2025 Founder’s Prize for manuscripts in development from the …
Brandon Bloch Publishes Book: Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy
In August 2025, Professor Brandon Bloch published his first book with Harvard University Press, entitled: Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy. The book tells the story of how German Protestant …
Gloria Whiting’s New Book, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England continues to receive awards
In August 2024, Gloria Whiting published her first book, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England, which explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin …
Ashley Brown Continues to Receive Book Awards
Ashley Brown – Associate Professor and Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society – has continued to receive many accolades for her biography of the iconic American tennis player and golfer …
Emily Callaci Publishes Book Wages for House Work
In February 2025, UW-Madison History Professor Emily Callaci published a new book entitled Wages for House Work: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise. You can find Wages for House Work at Penguin …
James Sweet Publishes Book: Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
In January 2025, James Sweet published a new book with Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Read …
Mou Banerjee Publishes Book: The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India
In January 2025, Harvard University Press published a new book authored by Professor Mou Banerjee: The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India. An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century …
Allison Powers Publishes Book: Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
In December 2024, UW-Madison History Professor Allison Powers published a new book with Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law. Read more here. …