Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States by Stephen Kantrowitz offers a concise and revealing history that reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe’s encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin’s admission as a state, representatives of the Ho-Chunk people yielded under immense …
History Newsletter 2022-23 (pdf) History Newsletter 2022-23: mobile-friendly version (pdf) In this issue: Chair’s Welcome Back to the Archives Professor Monica Kim Named MacArthur Fellow Department of history Undergraduate Graduation Address Faculty/Staff/Emeritus News And more… This issue and past copies of the newsletter can also be found of the History Newsletter page.
Professor Dana Landress has joined the Department of History as an Assistant Professor of Medical History and Bioethics. She is a historian of 19th and 20th century medicine and public health in the United States. Her research examines the relationship between nutritional disease, community health work, and the political economy of capitalism in the U.S. …
Jim Sweet ended his term as the 2022 President of the American Historical Association with a presidential address at the annual American Historical Association Conference. The address titled “Slave Trading as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy, from the Calabar Massacre to BLM, 1767-2022” was published in the American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1.
Two teaching assistants from the Department of History, Ludwig Decke and Emma Wathen, have received a Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards. These awards recognize their excellence in teaching. Ludwig and Emma both received the Early Excellence in Teaching Award. Ludwig Decke is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History, specializing in the intersection of Jewish, …
Ashley Brown, Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society and Assistant Professor History, has written a brief article for History.com. “How Althea Gibson Faced Racial Barriers–Even as a Tennis Champion” was published on March 1. Gibson is the subject of Professor Brown’s new book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of …
History Majors Maddy McGlone and Rachel Lynch talk about the new digital exhibition “1914: Then Came Armageddon” in an article published by the UW Libraries. 1914: Then Came Armageddon is the first fully digital exhibition on an original software platform developed by UW-Madison Libraries. Rachel Lynch and Maddy McGlone were undergraduate student researchers on this project …
Professor Paige Glotzer discusses the history of housing segregation on PBS Wisconsin’s University Place. The episode is available to view online and will air on Monday, March 20th at 9:00 PM. Housing segregation is the subject of Professor Glotzer’s book, How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press, 2020). …
In his Feb. 6, 2023 critic-at-large book review for the New Yorker, “Making the News,” Louis Menand features affiliated faculty Kathryn McGarr‘s new book, City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (University of Chicago Press). Professor Kathryn McGarr is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass communication …
From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grad Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first African American to win titles at the …