Co-sponsored by European Studies and the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium (WIRC).
Teaching the World with WIRC is a new webinar series for K-14 educators interested in integrating global perspectives on a central theme in their curriculum. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the theme for 2026-2027 is The World in 1776. Throughout the five-part series, which begins in September during International Education Week, we’ll explore global events going on during or around that year; spotlight relevant connections between our regions and the American Revolution; and discuss the impact of American independence in 1776 and beyond.
More information will be forthcoming.
Daniel Ussishkin is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a historian of modern Europe in general, and of modern Britain more particularly. His first book, Morale: A Modern British History (Oxford University Press, 2017), tries to answer the following question: how is it that modern Britons (and many others who took a similar path) have come to understand questions of conduct and its management in terms of collective attitude and morale? He investigates this question by tracing the myriad iterations of the concept itself as it had emerged during the past two centuries, and by examining how Britons first tried to understand what morale actually was and then sought ways to secure it, thereby giving rise to entirely novel institutional practices and forms of knowledge, and linking those to myriad political projects.
His current project focuses on imperial governance, as well as on a cultural history of the end of formal imperial rule in four former British Asian colonies.
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