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Professor James Sweet Becomes Next President-Elect of AHA

Posted on July 28, 2020

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 …

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

Francine Hirsch Talks About New Book on Podcast

Posted on July 22, 2020

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 …

Posted in 2020, All News, European History, History News

Alumna Vaneesa Cook Writes About Work with MIA Project

Posted on July 22, 2020

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: …

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

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
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