by Jane Elder | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
Anyone reading this magazine will likely agree that writing can help us envision and shape our future. Writing enables us to capture ideas, reflect on and improve them, and share them widely. The power of great writing is that it can be personal and universal at the...
by Jason Smith | Dec 16, 2014 | Magazine Article
Fifteen years ago, University of Oregon president Dave Frohnmayer delivered a prescient commencement address on a political and cultural phenomenon called “the New Tribalism.” “I hear an ancient noise rising in Oregon. … It sounds like the cacophony of a hundred...
by Jane Elder | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
As the dust was settling from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions at the end of the summer, a friend of mine excitedly posted on Facebook, “I actually heard the word citizenship used!” While I can’t recall how many other people “Liked” this comment (I...
by Charles Cohen, Louise Cainkar | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In Part II of the Wisconsin Academy’s “Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World” Academy Evenings event on September 11, 2011, three panelists reflect on the meaning of citizenship in America: Charles Cohen, UW–Madison professor of history and religious...
by Thomas Archdeacon | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In Part I of a special series of Academy Evenings talks entitled “Understanding Immigration,” UW–Madison history professor Thomas Archdeacon examines immigration in our nation’s history and how it compares and contrasts with immigration today....
