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Article – “History in an Age of Fake News” by Patrick Iber

Posted on August 1, 2018

We work and live in a time when historical knowledge has become intensely politicized. That knowledge is political is hardly new, but the rise of Donald Trump has heightened the polarization. His administration governs with …

Posted in 2018, All News, History News, Intellectual History Group, Latin American and Caribbean History, U.S./North American History

Article – “White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream” by Stephen Kantrowitz

Posted on August 1, 2018

White supremacy is a language of unease. It does not describe racial domination so much as worry about it. White supremacy connotes many grim and terrifying things, including inequality, exclusion, injustice, and state and vigilante …

Posted in 2018, All News, History News, U.S./North American History, War in Society and Culture

Graduate School Interview with Rivka Maizlish

Posted on August 1, 2018

Rivka Maizlish studies folk music, folklore, folk art, folk medicine – but she is not a folklorist. Maizlish is an intellectual historian, about to embark on a fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution to dive more …

Posted in 2018, All News, History News, Intellectual History Group, U.S./North American History

Smithsonian Magazine highlights the efforts of George Mosse’s nephew, Roger Strauch, to track down the Mosse family artworks that had been seized by the Nazis.

Posted on June 14, 2018

In the final months of the 19th century, a German sculptor named Walter Schott began drawing up plans for a massive work he hoped would represent the pinnacle of his 15-year career. Cast in bronze, …

Posted in 2018, All News, George Mosse Program, History News

Celebration-of-life gathering to remember Margaret R. Bogue

Posted on June 11, 2018

Date: Saturday, 16 June, from 1:30pm to 4pm Place: First Congregational Church, UCC at 1609 University Avenue Names of surviving daughters: Sue Bogue, Margaret Bogue-Harper, and Ellie Bogue Anyone so inclined is invited to share …

Posted in 2018, All News, Emeriti, History News, Memorials

“The History of Your Parents’ Generation” with Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Posted on May 24, 2018

“On Wisconsin”, UW-Madison’s alumni magazine, published a great story on Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s course, “The History of Your Parents’ Generation”. In the story, Professor Ratner-Rosenhagen says “It seemed to me that [the course’s approach] could …

Posted in 2018, All News, History News, Intellectual History Group, U.S./North American History

UW History alum Martín Espada recognized with Distinguished Lifetime Achievement award for poetry

Posted on May 24, 2018

The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which honors a living US poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. Martín Espada is awarded the prize in recognition of …

Posted in 2018, All News, Alumni, Awards, History News, Latin American and Caribbean History

Emily Callaci and Mitra Sharafi receive summer research support from the NEH

Posted on May 16, 2018

Emily Callaci, assistant professor of history, and Mitra Sharafi, associate professor at the Law School, have been offered Summer Stipend awards by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is the first time two UW–Madison …

Posted in 2018, African History, All News, Awards, Gender and Women’s History, History News, South Asian History

Emma Strenski, senior History major, receives Fulbright Award

Posted on May 7, 2018

Congratulations to senior History major Emma Strenski!! Emma has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Modern History from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign …

Posted in 2018, All News, Alumni, Awards, European History, History News

Caitlin Tyler-Richards wins Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship

Posted on May 7, 2018

Caitlin Tyler-Richards, History PhD candidate in African History, has won a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship at the University of Washington Press for 2018-2019. This prestigious fellowship will allow Caitlin to continue work on her …

Posted in 2018, African History, All News, Awards, History News
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