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U.S./North American History

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  Gloria Whiting’s New Book, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England continues to receive awards

  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 …

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  Ashley Brown Continues to Receive Book Awards

  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 …

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

  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.

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

  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 …

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  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,” …

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  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 …

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  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). …

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  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 …

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