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 …
U.S./North American History
Ph.D. Alum Catherine Burns Received 2022 James Phinney Baxter Award
Catherine M. Burns (PhD 2011) is the recipient of the 2022 James Phinney Baxter Award for best article in the scholarly journal Maine History. “ ‘It May Be Questionable’: Granger v. Avery and the Redaction …
Samuel Freedman Visits History 136
On Tuesday, November 15th Professor Ashley Brown hosted Samuel G. Freedman as a guest speaker in History 136: Sport, Recreation, & Society in the United States. Freedman’s appearance was coordinated as part of his visit to …
Professor Monica Kim Named 2022 MacArthur Fellow
Professor Monica Kim has recently been named a MacArthur Fellow. This “genius grant” fellowship provides an $800,000 stipend for the fellows to use as they see fit. The criteria that are used to select the …
Sifting & Reckoning: UW-Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance
From September 12 through December 23, 2022, the Chazen Museum of Art will be displaying the Public History Project’s premiere exhibition titled Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance. The exhibition spans over …
Professor Simon Balto Named a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Professor Simon Balto has recently been named as a 2022-2023 Carr Center Fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy serves as the hub of the Harvard …
Professor Paige Glotzer Interviewed for ABC News
Professor Paige Glotzer was interviewed by ABC News about housing discrimination in Baltimore. A Black couple’s home value rose nearly $300K after it was shown by a White colleague. Professor Glotzer discusses the origins of …
Professor Ashley Brown Interviewed for Germany’s WDR TV Station
Professor Ashley Brown participated in an extensive interview about athlete Althea Gibson for Germany’s WDR TV Station (Westdeutscher Rundfunk). The subject of this interview, Althea Gibson, is also the subject of Ashley Brown’s book which …
Paige Glotzer’s book Receives Honorable Mention from the International Planning History Society
Congratulations to Professor Paige Glotzer, whose 2020 book How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 (Columbia University Press) has received an honorable mention from the International Planning History Society …
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Writes About the Use and Abuse of History for Hedgehog Review
Professor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen has a new piece published with The Hedgehog Review titled, “Nietzsche’s Quarrel with History: Are there any lessons left for history to teach us?” The piece was published as part of their summer 2022 issue …