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 …
U.S./North American History
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 …
Monica Kim Receives First Book Praise & Second Book Funding
Congratulations to Professor Monica Kim, who has been selected as a 2022 Summer Humanities Research Fellow with the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison. Funded by the College of Letters & Science and …
Paige Glotzer’s How the Suburbs Were Segregated Receives Lewis Mumford Prize
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 the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American …
Professor Emeritus William Cronon Returns to Campus for Retirement Celebration
On Saturday, April 30th, 2022 Professor Emeritus William Cronon returned to the UW-Madison campus for a conference in celebration of his retirement. The one day conference titled “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World” …
Three 2022 History Graduates Highlighted for Accomplishments
This weekend, thousands of Badgers will earn their degrees at UW-Madison Commencement. In anticipation of the commencement proceedings, UW-Madison highlighted several graduates with unique accomplishments to share, and three of them will be receiving their …
Retirement Celebration in Honor of Professor Emeritus William Cronon
This Saturday, April 30th, Professor Emeritus William Cronon will be back on the UW-Madison campus to participate in “Common Places: Keywords for a More Than Human World,” a day-long conference organized by his former PhD students that …
Professor Ashley Brown Featured on Big Ten Network
On February 14th, Professor Ashley Brown was interviewed by her former student Ethan Bacon for a Big Ten Network feature on George Coleman Poage, first African-American athlete to win an Olympic medal and a UW-Madison History …