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 …
U.S./North American History
Paige Glotzer Publishes New Essay for Prestigious Digital Redlining Project
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,” …
John Suval (PhD 2018) Receives Book Award from the Southern Historical Association
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 …
Alumnus Daniel G. Hummel Publishes New Book
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). …
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s “American Nietzsche” was Turned into an Exhibit
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 …
Ashley Brown Interviews for Podcast with Biographers International Organization
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 …
Stephen Kantrowitz Publishes New Book
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 …
History.com Publishes Article by Professor Ashley Brown
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 …
Professor Paige Glotzer Films an Episode of University Place for PBS Wisconsin
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 …
Kathryn McGarr’s new “City of Newsmen” in Louis Menand’s review in New Yorker
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 …