UW-Madison Department of History

In honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence, you are invited to a symposium on slavery, liberty, and the American Revolution tomorrow April 23.

To attend please reserve your free ticket at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/freedomseekers1/2144412

📆Thurs, April 23
⏰4:00pm Poster Exhibition: The Art of Freedom; 5:00pm Keynote Storytelling Lecture
📍Wisconsin Historical Society (816 State Street)

Schedule of Events:

4pm, Poster Exhibition: The Art of Freedom. Join to learn about the Freedom Seekers project and explore stories of people who fled slavery during the Revolutionary era.

5pm, Keynote Storytelling Lecture, “Freedom Seekers: Declaring Independence from Slavery during the American Revolution" with Professor Gloria McCahon Whiting, E. Gordon Fox Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Please join us next Thursday for the 2025 Michael B. Petrovich Lecture with Benjamin Nathans (Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania):

"To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement"

📆Thurs, April 16, 4:00pm
📍Pyle Center, Room 121

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture. We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to History of Science, Medicine, and Technology graduate student Jade (Yu-Hsuan) Wang and History graduate student Emily Lobenstein on receiving 2025-26 Teaching Assistant Awards!

Congratulations to the 32 graduate students who have been recognized with Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards this year! Their dedication, passion, and creativity in teaching is a vital part of UW–Madison's success.

Meet the awardees: https://grad.wisc.edu/2026/03/23/2025-26-ta-awards-announced/

Congratulations to Professor Brandon Bloch on receiving the William H. Kiekhofer Teaching Award! Read more about his tremendous work in the classroom here:

Meet the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award winners The 13 faculty members named as this year’s honorees will be recognized at a ceremony in April.

Event tomorrow!

"Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City” with Prof. Nianshen Song (Tsinghua University)

📆 March 11, 3:30 PM
📍 Elvehjem Building, L160

(Co-sponsored by the Department of History, The Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of Art History)

Recently, UW-Madison History Professor Ashley Brown presented at the 2025 Wimbledon Tennis History Conference, which was held at Wimbledon, the home of tennis's oldest major championship. While at Wimbledon, the TennisWorthy Podcast interviewed Ashley Brown about the life and legacy of Althea Gibson, the first person of color to win a Grand Slam title. Listen here!

The Parallel Legacies of Althea Gibson and Ora Washington, with Ashley Brown and Pamela Grundy February is Black History Month in the United States and this month, the TennisWorthy Podcast will explore the impact and legacies of trailblazing Black tenn...

Mark your calendars for Thursday, March 19!

2026 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture with Heather Ann Thompson (Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan)

“Fear and Fury: Bernie Goetz, White Rage, and the Long Reach of the Reagan 80s”

📆 March 19, 5:00 PM
📍 Pyle Center, Room 121

(Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, Center for Campus History, and Department of African American Studies)

Tomorrow 2/26! Join the War in Society and Culture Program for a talk with Anthony Kaldellis (Department of Classics, University of Chicago).

"Cultural Life in Constantinople during the Siege of 1453"

📆Thursday, February 26, 6:00 PM
📍Education L196

The fall of Constantinople in 1453 marked the end of the Roman (Byzantine) empire and enabled the Ottomans to become a world power. Most attention on the siege has focused on its military aspects, including the deployment of huge cannons against the city’s ancient walls. But the city’s cultural life during the siege was just as intense, as classical scholars, both Greek and Latin, struggled to make sense of events, while Catholic and Orthodox theologians debated the issue of Church Union. In this lecture, professor Kaldellis will present the writers, thinkers, and scribes who were active during the siege and discuss their fates after the city’s fall.

Co-sponsored by Wisconsin Veterans Museum.