Check out this wonderful website created by a team of graduate students in Florence Bernault’s Hist 861 last spring. Kate Alfin, Lamin Keita (Poli Sci), Lauren Maly and Leslie Sabakinu worked together to create this …
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Susan Johnson interviewed for an episode of the history podcast BackStory
Susan Johnson was recently interviewed for an episode of the history podcast BackStory (produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) on the California Gold Rush and the episode, All That Glitters? Legacies of the …
Article on Sergio Gonzalez: Latino historian ‘inspired’ by Scott Walker and Donald Trump
Sergio Gonzalez, an author and doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is earnest, intense and seems destined to lead. At 30, Gonzalez is completing his Ph.D. in history with a focus on labor, immigration …
Interview with David Fields on U.S.-Korea Relations
Interview with David Fields on U.S.-Korea Relations Historian David Fields discussed the background of the relationship between North Korea and South Korea and the involvement of the United States. The interview took place at the …
History Department 2017 Newsletter – “The Past in the Present”
History Newsletter 2017-18 – “The Past in the Present” Chair’s Welcome Twenty Years of ARCHIVE Drunk History Nature’s Metropolis Turns 25 Wisconsin 101 Progress Report Faculty/Emeriti News News Professorships Graduate Student/Alumni Notes Undergraduate/Graduate Awards and …
African Studies celebrates the contributions of Florence Bernault
The African Studies Program congratulates and bids a fond farewell to longtime colleague Florence Bernault, who will be returning to her home country of France for a senior professorship in African History at the Institut …
Making Tracks: Gregg Mitman
A recent autobiographical essay on how Gregg Mitman became an environmental historian, commissioned by the Rachel Carson Center. Read the essay on their blog, Seeing the Woods.
Better Health Through the Humanities
A new certificate teaches students historical, cultural and philosophical ways people intersect with health care and provides them a broader, more nuanced understanding of health. Last spring in a Biology and Society course, Makenzie Wydra …
University of the Air – “Martin Luther & the Reformation” with Lee Palmer Wandel
“Martin Luther & the Reformation” listen to Lee Palmer Wandel UW-Madison, Professor of History on Wisconsin Public Radios’ “University of the Air” He was a catalyst for a religious revolution and he remains controversial today. …
Micaela Sullivan-Fowler named Distinguished Academic Librarian
Congratulations to our own Micaela Sullivan-Fowler (Curator and History of Medicine Librarian at Ebling Library, as well as Ebling’s head of marketing and communications) for being named Distinguished Academic Librarian! This rank is given only …