To read the article, click here.

Great article, Professor Kersten!

From the UWGB LOG news: Award-winning UW-Green Bay Prof. Andrew Kersten has a national cable television shot Saturday (June 4) as part of C-SPAN2’s Book TV programming. The network will be broadcasting live from the 2011 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest. The network will carry seven different author talks/panel discussions during the day. Kersten will cap the lineup with his segment, at about 4 p.m. CDT, on his new book, Clarence Darrow: An American Iconoclast, a full-length biography that document the famous lawyer’s influence beyond politics and the courtroom.

Click here to learn more about the event.

The Linothorax Project — an exceptional example of student-faculty collaboration at UW-Green Bay – is in the news again!

For an update and a short video of Prof. Greg Aldrete describing the project, follow this link.

Ceremony marks Wisconsin’s most historic labor incident

The Commemoration of the 125^th Anniversary of the Bay View Tragedy takes on heightened significance this year as the State of Wisconsin is in the midst of an upheaval of activity surrounding the rights of working people and their unions. (For downloadable flyer, click here.)

The event is to be held at 4 p.m., Sunday, May 1, 2011 at the Bay View Rolling Mills State Historical marker site at S. Superior St. and E. Russell Ave., on Milwaukee’s lakefront.  It commemorates the tragedy of May 5, 1886 when the State Militia shot into some 1,500 workers marching in an 8-hour-day rally and killed seven in front of the old Bay View Rolling Mills, then Milwaukee’s largest manufacturing plant.

The large demonstrations of workers and supporters in Madison and elsewhere this year seeking to protect long-won rights for collective bargaining and worker benefits will likely be referenced by the speakers and presentations at the ceremony which has become a tradition over the last 25 years.

Vince Lowery of Humanistic Studies (History) has published a guest column in the Green Bay Press Gazette marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War by examining its significance to southern culture.  To read the column, click here.

Congratulations, Professor Lowery!

Andy Kersten, Professor of Social Change and Development (History) has received this year’s Instructional Development Council’s student nominated teaching award.  Students nominated 28 UWGB faculty and each year the award is given to one experienced teacher, in this case Andy, and one teacher beginning his or her teaching career.

Congratulations, Professor Kersten!

Kevin Kain has been selected to participate in the NEH summer institute program, “America Engages Eurasia, 19th Century – Present: Studies, Teaching, and Resources”, which will take place June 13 – July 1, 2011.  To read more about the Institute, click here .

Congratulations, Professor Kain!

Kevin M. Kain of Humanistic Studies and History just published “Alexander S. Gumberg and the Development of American-Soviet Print Relations 1917-1930,” Slavic & East European Information Resources vol. 12, no. 1. (2011): 3-36.  This article investigates Alexander S. Gumberg’s (1887-1939) pioneering role in the development of US-Soviet print relations between 1917 and 1930. The article is based on analysis of records from Gumberg’s personal archive in the Wisconsin State Historical Society Archive and has two parts. The first considers Gumberg’s collection of documents concerning the founding of the Soviet state in revolutionary Russia, their presentation in the American press, and their deposit in the New York Public Library. The second examines Gumberg’s establishment of bilateral exchanges of print materials in the 1920s and offers insights into their theoretical and practical aspects from American and Soviet perspectives.

Congratulations, Professor Kain!

Kim Nielsen is the latest History faculty member to weigh in at a national blog site with a first-person essay from the front lines of Wisconsin’s budget battles. Nielsen writes of her support for the pro-union cause in a piece posted to the site maintained by Beacon Press, a national publishing house, at this link.

Great essay, Professor Nielsen!

David Voelker has published a co-authored article, “The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage Model,” in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of American History. Voelker and his co-author Joel Sipress (UW-Superior) provide the first historical analysis of the introductory history course (going back over a century) and attempt to provoke college history instructors to design introductory courses to prioritize the teaching of historical argumentation over coverage for the sake of coverage.  To link to the journal, click here.

Congratulations, Professor Voelker!