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Ashley Brown Continues to Receive Book Awards

Posted on February 20, 2025

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 …

Posted in 2024, 2025, All News, Awards, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Emily Callaci Publishes Book Wages for House Work

Posted on February 14, 2025

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 …

Posted in 2025, African History, All News, Books, Gender and Women’s History, History News

James Sweet Publishes Book: Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

Posted on January 17, 2025

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 …

Posted in 2025, All News, Books, History News, War in Society and Culture

Mou Banerjee Publishes Book: The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India

Posted on January 14, 2025

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 …

Posted in 2025, All News, Books, History News

Allison Powers Publishes Book: Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

Posted on December 1, 2024

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.

Posted in 2025, All News, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Professor Emeritus Colleen Dunlavy’s Book Named Among Best Books of Summer 2024 by Financial Times

Posted on September 4, 2024

The Financial Times recognized Professor Emerita of History, UW-Madison Colleen Dunlavy’s Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US into a Manufacturing Powerhouse one of the best summer books of 2024. Small, Medium, and Large …

Posted in 2024, All News, Awards, Books, Emeriti, History News, U.S./North American History

Judith Houck Publishes New Book: Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement

Posted on January 30, 2024

The University of Chicago Press has published Professor Judith Houck’s new book, Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement. The work highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of …

Posted in 2024, All News, Books, Gender and Women’s History, History News, History of Science Medicine and Technology

John Suval (PhD 2018) Receives Book Award from the Southern Historical Association

Posted on December 13, 2023

Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) by John Suval received the Southern Historical Association’s 2023 James A. Rawley Award for the best book on secession and/or …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, Awards, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Viren Murthy’s Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution was just published with University of Chicago Press

Posted on October 23, 2023

Viren Murthy’s Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution was just published with University of Chicago Press. Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in …

Posted in 2023, All News, Books, History News

Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen Reviewed in New York Times

Posted on October 10, 2023

Associate Professor Kathryn McGarr, a History Department affiliate, was featured in The New York Times in a review of four new books on journalism. Read the review of City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional …

Posted in 2023, All News, Books, History News
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