News Archive

Ganyard, Nice and Voelker

Ganyard, Nice, and Voelker awarded Intercampus Community of Practice (ICoP) Grants to incorporate new communication technologies in the redesign of their courses.  Along with Donna Ritch (Human Biology) and Andy Speth (Learning Technology Center), they will engage in conversations with colleagues from across the UW-System to improve the use of technologies such as blogs, wikis, and games in the classroom.  Ganyard, Nice, and Voelker all regularly teach large general education courses such as  Foundations of Western Culture and History of the United States.

 

American Labor and Civil Rights: Professor Kersten's Two New Books

Labor's Home Front:
The American Federation of Labor and World War II

In Labor's Home Front, "Kersten details the union's contributions to wartime labor relations, its opposition to the open shop movement, divided support for fair employment and equity for women and African American workers, its constant battles with the CIO, and its significant efforts to reshape American society, economics, and politics after the war.... [D]espite its conservative nature, the AFL was dramatically transformed during World War II, becoming a more powerful progressive force that pushed for liberal change."

A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard

"In this engaging new book, historian Andrew Kersten explores Randolph's significant influences and accomplishments as both a labor and civil rights leader. Kersten pays particular attention to Randolph's political philosophy, his involvement in the labor and civil rights movements, and his dedication to improving the lives of American workers."

Samurai, Sumo, & Sushi

At the end of May, Clifton Ganyard, Assistant Professor of Humanistic Studies, and Kristy Aoki, Office of International Education, led ten students, faculty, and staff on a 19-day travel course to Japan. The group visited Tokyo, Nagano, Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima, and Osaka, where they explored Japan's rich history and culture.

In front of Osaka Castle: Anthony Malcore, Mike Anzia, Maura Vazquez, Kelly Wenig, Adam Hofsperger, Kristy Aoki, James Werner (back), Danielle Le Sage, Clif Ganyard, Mark Roe, Curt Heuer, and Paula Ganyard.

History Come Alive at UWGB

SPQR: Roman Legions invade UWGB campus!  Professor Greg Aldrete teaches students about Roman Legionnaires and Gladiators: http://wwwtest.uwgb.edu/roman/slideshow.html
(Click on the picture to start the slide show.)

...and about the Greek Phalanx:
http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/photoblog/ancientgreece.htm

New Book by Kaye

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
by Harvey J. Kaye

The revolutionary spirit that runs through American history and whose founding father and greatest advocate was Thomas Paine is fiercely traced in Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. Showing how Paine turned Americans into radicals—and how we have remained radicals at heart ever since—Harvey J. Kaye presents the nation’s democratic story with wit, subtlety, and, above all, passion.

Bill Moyers calls it "The best political book of the year!”

Nielsen

Kim Nielsen has been selected by the Organization of American Historians and the Japanese Association for American Studies for a two-week residency in Japan. Based out of Japanese Women's University, Tokyo, she'll be giving seminars to graduate students on United States women's and disability history.

 

New Book by Aldrete

Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia
by Gregory S. Aldrete

 In Gregory Aldrete's exhaustive account, readers will have the opportunity to peer into the inner workings of daily life in ancient Rome, to witness the full range of glory, cruelty, sophistication, and deprivation that characterized Roman cities, and will perhaps even gain new insight into the nature and history of urban existence in America today.

 

 

Ganyard

Clifton Ganyard attended the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) National Faculty Development Institute on "Incorporating Japanese Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum" at San Diego State University, 1-24 June, 2005.

New book by Nielsen

The Radical Lives of Helen Keller
by Kim Nielsen

"Nielsen's study challenges our impoverished cultural memories of Keller, which may have for too long served to "flatten" both our understanding not just of Keller's complex, contradictory life, but also the politics of disability, U.S. racialism, and women's political activities."
- On Campus with Women