Category: European history

• Celebrating the “Week of Italian Cuisine in the World 2020” at UW-Madison

  Posted on Nov 13th

  Special Collections joins with our campus colleagues to celebrate the history of Italian cuisine during the week of November 16, 2020, and […]

• New Exhibit: Plants Plantations Labor Trade

  Posted on Jan 27th

  We welcome you to our new exhibit,  Plants  Plantations  Labor  Trade: An Exhibit of Holdings of the UW-Madison Libraries and Wisconsin Historical Society […]

• New Exhibit: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections

  Posted on Sep 10th

  We welcome you to our newest exhibit, Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections.  In it you will find […]

• Women and the Great War: Titles in the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

  Posted on Nov 12th

  Among the strengths of the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers are titles about women’s roles in World War I. In this, […]

• The Russian Revolution of 1917

  Posted on Jul 26th

  We are pleased today to host participants in “Ten months that shook the world: Russia’s revolutions in a global perspective. A workshop […]

• Independence Day, 1917

  Posted on Jun 30th

  With Andrea Rolich of the Preservation Department, we were recently looking at the UW-Madison Libraries’ copies of the periodical Every Week, including […]

• Event & Book Signing on March 17 Honoring New Book by John Tedeschi

  Posted on Mar 15th

  We hope you will able to attend the event and book signing this Thursday, March 17, for Italian Jews Under Fascism, 1938-1945: A Personal and […]

• 1914-2014: Commemorating an Event in Sarajevo

  Posted on Jul 2nd

  This past weekend, news outlets noted an important anniversary: the centenary of the assassination in Sarajevo of archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, […]