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U.S./North American History

Ashley Brown Continues to Receive Book Awards

Posted on February 20, 2025

Ashley Brown – Associate Professor and Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society – has continued to receive many accolades for her biography of the iconic American tennis player and golfer …

Posted in 2024, 2025, All News, Awards, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Allison Powers Publishes Book: Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

Posted on December 1, 2024

In December 2024, UW-Madison History Professor Allison Powers published a new book with Oxford University Press. The book is entitled Arbitrating Power: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law. Read more here.

Posted in 2025, All News, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Professor Emeritus Colleen Dunlavy’s Book Named Among Best Books of Summer 2024 by Financial Times

Posted on September 4, 2024

The Financial Times recognized Professor Emerita of History, UW-Madison Colleen Dunlavy’s Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US into a Manufacturing Powerhouse one of the best summer books of 2024. Small, Medium, and Large …

Posted in 2024, All News, Awards, Books, Emeriti, History News, U.S./North American History

Paige Glotzer Publishes New Essay for Prestigious Digital Redlining Project

Posted on December 13, 2023

Paige Glotzer published an essay as part of the launch of the new version of the prestigious digital resource for redlining, Mapping Inequality. Glotzer was invited to pilot the site’s new feature, called “context essays,” …

Posted in 2023, All News, History News, U.S./North American History

John Suval (PhD 2018) Receives Book Award from the Southern Historical Association

Posted on December 13, 2023

Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022) by John Suval received the Southern Historical Association’s 2023 James A. Rawley Award for the best book on secession and/or …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, Awards, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Alumnus Daniel G. Hummel Publishes New Book

Posted on July 24, 2023

Former Ph.D. student Daniel G. Hummel recently published a new book titled The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023). …

Posted in 2023, All News, Alumni, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s “American Nietzsche” was Turned into an Exhibit

Posted on June 14, 2023

Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s “American Nietzsche” was turned into an exhibit “No Trivial Matter: Nietzsche’s Urge for the Truth” at New York Encounter, NYC (Feb. 2023) and discussed in the April 12th issue of Newsweek magazine …

Posted in 2023, All News, History News, Intellectual History Group, U.S./North American History

Ashley Brown Interviews for Podcast with Biographers International Organization

Posted on May 9, 2023

Professor Ashley Brown was interviewed by Biographers International Organization about her recently published biography on Althea Gibson. This biography, titled Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson, is the most comprehensive biography of …

Posted in 2023, All News, History News, U.S./North American History

Stephen Kantrowitz Publishes New Book

Posted on April 25, 2023

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 …

Posted in 2023, All News, Books, History News, U.S./North American History

History.com Publishes Article by Professor Ashley Brown

Posted on March 21, 2023

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 …

Posted in 2023, All News, Gender and Women’s History, History News, U.S./North American History
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