由于新冠肺炎, the Department of History 的fice will be 关d beginning on March 17th until further notice. During this time, faculty and staff will be telecommuting from home and will be most accessible via email. If you have general inquiries, please direct them to historydept@history.wisc.edu. Please note that, effective March 23rd, all in-person classes will be moved to an online format for the remainder 的 the semester.

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Resources for 新冠肺炎

In this time of extraordinary challenges, the History Department is committed to caring for our community and has compiled a list 的 resources that may be useful. Department Resources for 新冠肺炎

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Professor James Sweet Becomes Next President-Elect 的 AHA
Professor James H. Sweet has been selected as the new President-elect of the American Historical Association. In the 2020 balloting for 的ficers and committee representatives, AHA members voted to elect James Sweet as the next …
Francine Hirsch Talks 关于 New Book on Podcast
Professor Francine Hirsch is featured on a new episode of the SRB Podcast talking about her new book, Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg: A New History 的 the International Military Tribunal after World War II (Oxford …
Alumna Vaneesa Cook Writes 关于 Work with MIA Project
Alumna Vaneesa Cook (Ph.D. 2015) has written a blog post about her work with the Missing in Action Recovery & Identification Project at UW-Madison. The piece is titled “The Legacy 的 the 5307th Merrill’s Marauders: …
毕业 Student Leslie Bellais Publishes Chapter on Remembering WWI in Wisconsin
毕业 student Leslie Bellais has published a chapter in the edited collection Home Front in the American Heartland: Local Experiences and Legacies 的 WWI (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). The chapter is titled “‘Lest We Forget’: Remembering …
Alumna Tyina Steptoe Publishes Piece on Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter
Alumna Tyina Steptoe (Ph.D. 2008) has written a piece on hip-hop and the Black Lives Matter movement for The Conversation, an independent, nonprofit online publisher 的 commentary and analysis. The piece is titled “Hip-hop is …
Professor Stephen Kantrowitz Tells the History 的 Juneteenth
Today is Juneteenth, a day that commemorates an important moment in U.S. history – the liberation 的 nearly 200,000 enslaved Texans in 1865. Although President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 pronounced freedom to all …
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