UW–Madison History Professor Devin Kennedy recently published a new book, Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy, with Columbia University Press. Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After World War II, military officials and their partners in …
In August 2024, Gloria Whiting published her first book, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England, which explores how Black New Englanders maintained a sense of belonging among their kin in the face of slavery. The book was one of four finalists for the 2025 Frederick Douglass Prize, an annual …
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 Althea Gibson. Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson (Oxford University Press, 2023) offers a revealing look at the …
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. Book Awards Allison Powers Useche’s book, Arbitrating Empire, received the 2026 Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the …
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 explores the history of mass production and distribution with novel questions about the standardization of sizes for everyday consumer items. …
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,” that introduces users to the different cities that had redlining maps. Her essay on Baltimore orients people to the broad …
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 the sectional crisis published during the previous two years. John earned his PhD in 2018 under the direction of Professor …
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). Description: A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and religion In The Rise and Fall …
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 under the headline: “Our Culture War Is Two Sides of the Same Nietzschean Coin.” The article states that “Ratner-Rosenagen’s book …
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 Althea Gibson, set against the major historical developments of the twentieth century. Based on previously unpublished archival sources, news media …