Stories indexed under: History

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• Paul Boyer, influential scholar of religious history, dies March 26, 2012 Paul S. Boyer, Merle Curti Chair Emeritus in American History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died in Madison on Saturday, March 17, at age 76 after a short bout with cancer.
• Selig Distinguished Lecture delves into Japanese Americans’ relationship with baseball Jan. 17, 2012 How baseball helped Japanese Americans develop an identity and bond with America will be addressed in the Selig Distinguished Lecture in Sport and Society on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Historian’s work gives a glimpse of Nixon “unplugged” Nov. 8, 2011 The National Archives and the Richard Nixon Presidential Library will release new recordings and documents, including a transcript of Nixon’s grand jury testimony related to the Watergate investigation, thanks to a UW-Madison professor emeritus who has fought for years to get the secret records of the former president made public.
• Eleven professors appointed to named professorships Oct. 6, 2011 Eleven distinguished faculty members have received named professorships, some of the highest honors for established faculty.
• UW–Madison professor named fellow of British Academy Sept. 19, 2011 William Courtenay, University of Wisconsin–Madison Hilldale Professor and Charles Homer Haskins Professor Emeritus of History, has been elected a corresponding fellow to the British Academy.
• Recent sightings: Selig Distinguished Lecture Jan. 28, 2011
• Professor to present first Selig Distinguished Lecture in Sport and Society Jan. 21, 2011 Adrian Burgos, professor of history in the Department of African American, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Latino/a Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present the first Selig Distinguished Lecture in Sport and Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, Jan. 27.
• Memorial service set Jan. 8 for history professor emeritus Robert Kingdon Dec. 27, 2010
• UW-Madison scholar tapped to lead American Historical Association Nov. 12, 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison historian William Cronon has been elected president of the American Historical Association, a position considered one of the highest honors in the profession.
• Chancellor conducts TelePresence meeting from China Nov. 5, 2010 As part of her trip to China and Taiwan, Chancellor Biddy Martin helped to inaugurate a cutting-edge videoconferencing device now available to the greater UW-Madison campus community.
• Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006 May 5, 2010 Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006 (Duke University Press, 2010) Steve J. Stern, vice provost for faculty and staff programs and Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History.
• Teach-in on Afghanistan, Pakistan set for next weekend March 12, 2010 A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty have organized a teach-in on Afghanistan and Pakistan to be held on campus next weekend, March 19 and 20.
• Mellon Foundation awards to fund postdoctoral fellowships Feb. 4, 2010 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded more than $1.8 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, history and humanistic social sciences.
• History professor writes definitive Woodrow Wilson biography Nov. 5, 2009 After a meteoric rise to the nation’s highest office, a new president working to make major structural changes to government and the economy enjoys majorities in Congress, but faces an unwillingness from opponents to cooperate with him.
• Digital reading technology makes its way into UW-Madison classrooms Oct. 13, 2009 Alongside music, television and the news media, books are surging into the new technology era with digital reading devices.
• Philanthropist and UW-Madison join to develop new-generation leaders Aug. 3, 2009 What do American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan do in their "spare" time?
• Historian, Army officer hired to teach military history at UW-Madison April 1, 2009 John Hall, a gifted historian and an active-duty career U.S. Army officer, has been named the Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor in U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• New history course on U.S. ‘grand strategy’ reaches out to modern military leaders Feb. 24, 2009 If ignorance of history makes one more likely to repeat it, as the saying goes, then the stakes of historical knowledge are at their highest when involving military strategy and war.
• Reason or faith? Darwin expert reflects Feb. 3, 2009 This is going to be a big year for evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin: 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book “On the Origin of Species,” and Feb. 12 would be his 200th birthday. Throughout the year, Darwin Day events are planned around the world to celebrate the man and his work, and to explore Darwin’s legacy of science and reason. On the top of many Darwin Day speakers lists is Ronald Numbers, Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine.
• National magazine honors UW historian as an emerging scholar Jan. 21, 2009 Ned Blackhawk, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of history and American Indian Studies, has been recognized by "Diverse" magazine this month as one of ten emerging scholars nationally who are taking their disciplines in exciting new directions.