Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s new book, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History, has just been released this week by Oxford University Press. The book examines the history of American thought from the pre-contact period …
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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History course is featured in OnWisconsin
For the sake of learning — and with occasional family healing — a UW history course is asking students to turn their parents into historical subjects. Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s History 221 course, The History of …
Article – “History in an Age of Fake News” by Patrick Iber
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 …
Graduate School Interview with Rivka Maizlish
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 …
“The History of Your Parents’ Generation” with Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
“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 …
Intellectual History Group – Alex Star
“Scholars As Writers: The Fundamentals” Writing workshop with Alex Star – website Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History Department. If you would like to participate in …
Intellectual History Group – John Kaag
“Narrative and Argument in the Writing of Ideas” Writing workshop with philosopher John Kaag UMass-Lowell Wednesday, March 7, 2018 5:00 – 6:30 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Mosse Humanities Bldg.) Co-sponsored by The Harvey Goldberg …
The French Institut d’études avancées published an interview with Viren Murthy
The French Institut d’études avancées just published an interview with Viren Murthy on Pan-Asianism and China’s place in the world. A must read for the Sinologists among you who read French! Viren held a fellowship …
Intellectual History Group Meeting with Joel Isaac
“Philosophical History, History of Philosophy” Joel Isaac – website University of Chicago John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought Thursday, February 22, 2018 5:00-7:00 PM 212 University Club Readings: John Kaag, American Philosophy: A Love …
Lecture: Joe Dennis
“Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation: Printing, Orality, and Legal Knowledge in China, 1595-1949” Joe Dennis Professor of History UW-Madison Monday, November 6, 2017 3:30 – 5:00 PM 212 University Club 803 State St …