Introducing the New History Major!
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's latest book wins two awards.
Chong Moua to receive the 2013 Huggins-Quarles Award (pdf)
Gerda Lerner Memorial Invitation - April 28, 2013 (pdf)
35th Annual Merle Curti Lecture - April 30 - May 1, 2013 (pdf)
Sixth Annual Petrovich Lecture - April 18th, 2013 (pdf)
Remembering Theodore Hamerow (1920 - 2013)
Jurgen Herbst Obituary (The Durango Herald)
Steve Kantrowitz received Kellett Mid-Career Award
Check out the 2012 History Newsletter, "The Past in the Present"!
Gerda Lerner, a Feminist, Historian, & UW-Madison Emeritus, Dies at 92
2013 American Historical Association Meeting & Reception
History course teaches students to think globally about Pearl Harbor
Selig visit offers History undergrads rare opportunity
Jim Sweet wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Graduate Seminar Courses for Spring 2013 (pdf)
William Appleman Williams: "It just might catch on"
Brenda Gayle Plummer appointed to Merze Tate WARF professorship
Steve Stern elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (pdf)
Paul Samuel Boyer (1935-2012)
Anat Stern: Mosse Post-Doc Fellow &
Visiting Assistant Professor
Memorial: Domenico Sella (1926-2012) by Lee Palmer Wandel
Rowe Lecture with Leonora Neville - March 9, 2012 (pdf)
Lecture by Ambassador John L. Hirsch, Senior Fellow, International Peace Institute - Thursday March 8, 2012
Richard Wightman Fox, Curti Visiting Scholar in US Intellectual and Cultural History- April 12 - 13, 2012 (pdf)
Al McCoy has received a Hilldale Award!
Lee Palmer Wandel was selected to receive the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award
2nd Annual Bud Selig Lecture Series - "One Base At A Time" - Tuesday, January 24th (pdf)
UW undergraduate and History Major Alexis Brown named Rhodes Scholar
Neil Kodesh's book Beyond the Royal Gaze is co-winner of Herskovits Prize
Thongchai Winichakul elected Vice President of AAS
Jim Sweet's new book won the James A. Rawley Prize
Stanley Kutler won his case to open the closed testimony by Richard Nixon about Watergate
Professor Steve Stern received a Hilldale Professorship
Selig to retire to Madison to write memoirs on UW campus
Congratulations to our recent PhD Recipients
34th Annual Merle Curti Lecture Series - October 18 - 20, 2011
William Courtenay elected as corresponding fellow of the British Academy
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Dedicates Allan H. ‘Bud’ Selig Center
Maurice Meisner, Professor Emeritus of History, Presented with Book
An Oral History Interview with Seymour Drescher (Video)
Senior Thesis Presentations were presented on Monday, May 9th (pdf)
Al McCoy awarded George McT. Kahin Prize
OAH statement defending William Cronon
Inaugural Skott Vigil Memorial Lecture was held April 14, 2011
AHA Deplores Effort to Intimidate William Cronon
Selig Lecture Series with Adrian Burgos (Video)
History students get published in Journal of Contemporary History
The 1st Annual Selig Lecture Series was held Thursday, January 27
Robert M. Kingdon (1927-2010)
Professor Bill Cronon elected president of AHA
"History as a Crime Scene" a discussion with Errol Morris (video)
Doug Kiel received prestigious SARS fellowship and residency in Sante Fe.
The History Department Welcomes New Faculty Members
Bud Selig endows history chair at UW-Madison
Congratulations to our recent PhD Recipients
Anne Enke awarded Feminist Scholars Fellowship
Skott Brandon Vigil (Dakota/Southern Ute) 1977-2010
UW History Graduate Students Win Prestigious Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Fellowship
Harvey Goldberg Memorial Lecture - Jennifer Guglielmo - April 19, 2010
William Brown Memorial Lecture - April 20, 2010
Michael B. Petrovich Lecture - Sheila Fitzpatrick - April 22, 2010
Two History TAs receive award for teaching
The History Department is now on Facebook
New book honors Robert Eric Frykenberg
Professor Florence Bernault Edits Special Issue of Politique Africaine
Check out the 2009 History Department Newsletter.
Professor James Donnelly publishes "Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824"
Professor John M. Cooper, New York Times op-ed contributor, writes column “Obama’s Prize, Wilson’s legacy”
History Department Catalogues 1852-2009 Now Available Online
Mosse Faculty Exchange Fellow Prof. Diego Olstein
Two History Students become IRE Graduate Scholar Associates
Peter Weil being honored with a 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award
Professor Colleen Dunlavy in On Wisconsin, Summer 2009 Issue
UW-Madison makes an unlikely ally: The military
Ph.D. Alumnus,
Thomas G. Andrews, Wins 2009 Bancroft Prize
Two Books Published in Honor of Stanley Payne
The William A. Brown Memorial Lecture Fund
Harvey Goldberg, The Bootleg Lectures, Madison, Wis., 1974-76 - **CDs On Sale Now
History Department Calendar