The Fall 2022 semester at UW-Madison saw the installation and opening of the Public History Project’s Sifting and Reckoning exhibit. Sanctioned by former Chancellor Rebecca Blank in 2019, the Public History Project aims to “uncover and give voice to those who experienced and challenged bigotry and exclusion on campus.”
Month: January 2023
The Body’s Cartography: on Dance, Queerness, and White Hegemonic Masculinity
This paper was written by Jackson Neal and was awarded the Civil Resistance Prize by the History Department in 2022. It was written for a class taught by Professor Christopher Walker. I started dancing in …
The Underground Railroad: David Ruggles’s Fights Against the Institution of Slavery
This paper was written by Emilie Springsteen and was awarded the Civil Resistance Prize by the History Department in 2022. It was written for History 393: Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction taught by Professor …