Category: Harvey Goldberg Center

Publication from Goldberg Center Book Series Awarded Prize from the American Historical Association

The book, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery, published as part of The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History with University of Wisconsin Press has just received the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association “for the teaching aid which has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of …

Lecture – Gail Hershatter

“Domestic Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking Gender and Social Change in Republican China” Gail Hershatter Distinguished Professor of History UC Santa Cruz Thursday, April 19, 2018 5:30 – 7:00 PM Elvehjem Building Room L140 800 University Avenue How can we re-create the world of a woman who left no trace in the public record? This talk considers the …

Lecture – Alfred McCoy

“Thinking about the American Empire and Its Impending Decline” Alfred McCoy Harrington Professor of History UW–Madison with comments by Professor Patrick Iber Monday, April 9, 2018 5:00 – 6:30 PM Pyle Center Auditorium Free and open to the public

Lecture: Dr. Zach Fredman

“The Jeep Girl Crisis of 1945: American Servicemen and Chinese Women in Wartime China” Dr. Zach Fredman U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Fellow Dartmouth College Thursday, November 30, 2017 3:30 – 5:00 Masley Media Room, Red Gym Sponsored by: Center for East Asian Studies, George L. Mosse Program in History, Harvey Goldberg Center for …

P is for Place: The Nature of Embodied History

Kate Brown Professor of History University of Maryland, Baltimore County Friday, March 4, 2016 4:30 – 6:00 PM Wisconsin Historical Society Opening Talk Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies: A Vocabulary for the Repressed: Native Presence, American Trauma, and John Muir’s Wisconsin Sponsored by: Department of Geography, Harvey Goldberg Center for …