MU Historians in the Spotlight

James Marten has been appointed to the Wisconsin Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission by Gov. Jim Doyle.  Read the announcement at http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?locid=19&prid=3284 

Read about a recent public lecture by Athan Theoharis in Salt Lake City’s Desert News:  http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695213283,00.html

Read a CNN.com article on rock ‘n roller Sly Stone featuring the expertise of Phil Naylor: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/09/sly.family.stone/index.html

Read (but only if you know Portuguese) March 2007 articles from Brazil’s Otempo that quote Timothy G. McMahon on events in Northern Ireland: http://www.otempo.com.br/internacional/lerMateria/?idMateria=82658

Read the 2007 piece on James Marten in Marquette University’s Research 2007 publication: http://www.marquette.edu/research/children3.shtml

Read a 2006 Milwaukee Magazine article on the issues facing the Milwaukee Archdiocese featuring the words and wisdom of Steve Avella: http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/currentIssue/full_feature_story.asp?NewMessageID=11252

Read an interview about public history with John Krugler in the April 16, 2006 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20060816/ai_n16639517

Watch James Marten deliver the 2006 Augustus Low lecture at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County: http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/studio/stream/qtdetail.cfm?recordID=438

Read a 2006 article by Thomas Jablonsky on Marquette’s first women students in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education: http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/Conversations/No_29_2006/29_jablonsky.pdf

Read a Washington Post article about Maryland Day, 2006, where John Krugler received the Cross Bottony award for his work as a commissioner at Historic St. Mary’s City: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/15/AR2006031500042.html

Read a 2005 article in the Wisconsin Academy Review on Milwaukee’s Civil War-era soldiers home featuring James Marten: http://www.portalwisconsin.org/Summer_05galleria.pdf

Watch Steve Avella discuss the aftermath of the death of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 on WTMJ:  http://www2.jsonline.com/multimedia/multiplayer.asp?packageid=748&id=8625

Listen to Irene Guenther as she’s interviewed for a 2005 BBC radio program on her book Nazi Chic:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed_20050406.shtml

. . . as she’s interviewed on two different BBC radio programs about her book . .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2004_19_wed_02.shtml

View the website for the Milla Davenport Award of the Costume Society of America, which was awarded to Irene Guenther in 2005 for Nazi Chic: http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/GrantsAwards/milliadavenport.html.
You can also find out more about the 2005 Sierra Prize that Irene received from the Western Association of Women Historians http://www.wawh.org/sierraprizewinners.html

Kristen Foster delivered a “gallery talk” at the Milwaukee Art Museum as part of the programming for MAM’s 2004 “American Fancy” exhibit; read more about the exhibit at http://www.mam.org/exhibitions/exhibition_details.aspx?ID=4

Read a 2003 Journal Sentinel article about the CD release by Phil Naylor’s Western Civilization Blues Band: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=153714

Read the Wikipedia entry for Athan Theoharis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athan_Theoharis.