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Conversation: “The Ethos of the Greatest Generation”- Discussing the Four Freedoms with Harvey Kaye – YouTube

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Jan 11, 2023

UW-Green Bay Prof. Emeritus Harvey Kaye is featured in a discussion about the “Four Freedoms” with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

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Video: Defying all odds – Shue Vang’s rise over discrimination

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Jan 5, 2023

As he graduates from college, Shue Vang reflects on his childhood years when discrimination at school diminished his education. Shue Vang defied all odds. As a Hmong student at UW-Green Bay, he experienced equal educational opportunities, support from his professors, and tremendous personal pride as he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Democracy &…

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‘It was complicated’: Professors explain the history and enforcement of abortion in Wisconsin | Wisconsin Public Radio

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Kristin Bouchard

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Jan 4, 2023

Experts also discuss how people viewed abortion when Wisconsin’s 19th century ban was passed By Colleen Leahy Historical analyses of abortion vary widely. Depending on what you read, abortion in early America was commonplace, safe, legal and accepted — or it was dangerous and uncommon. The abortion history debate was elevated this summer when the United…

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UW-Green Bay’s Prof. Paulson-Smith speaks at “Reverberations of Empire” conference

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Nov 29, 2022

Professor Kaden Paulson-Smith recently spoke on a roundtable at the 2022 Social Science History Association conference, “Reverberations of Empire: Histories, Legacies & Lineages.” Prof. Paulson-Smith shared new research on “Centering Colonization and Resistance in Analyses of Policing” in a featured presidential session of the conference that examined new directions in the critical study of global…

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Prof. Kimberley Reilly interviewed for WPR about 19th century attitudes on abortion

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Kristin Bouchard

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Nov 21, 2022

Wisconsin’s 1858 law banning most abortions has been in effect since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. But how did we get here? Why did that law stay on the books without being enforced for over 160 years? And why did 19th-century lawmakers want to restrict abortion in the first place? Prof.…

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Prof. Jon Shelton featured in Jacobin

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Kristin Bouchard

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Nov 21, 2022

An excerpt of UW-Green Bay Prof. Jon Shelton’s forthcoming book The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy was recently featured in Jacobin. Read the piece here.

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Prof. Reilly publishes article in Ms. Magazine on abortion in Wisconsin

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Kristin Bouchard

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Nov 8, 2022

Prof. Kimberley Reilly has published an article in Ms. Magazine titled “Abortion Rights and the ‘Quick Child’: The Misuse of History in Wisconsin’s Abortion Ban.” Reilly explains that Wisconsin’s 1849 law (now in effect) actually preserved abortion rights into the second trimester of pregnancy. The article shows that reproductive rights are more deeply entrenched in…

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Andrew Austin speaks on racial bias in civilian-police encounters at scholarly conference

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Oct 18, 2022

Sociologists from around the nation convened in Nashville, Tennessee last week to participate in the Mid-South Sociological Association Conference around the theme “Beyond Sundown: Sociologist Seeking Past Truths, Present Justice, and Possible Futures,” held this year in association with the Black Nashville Assembly, a participatory democracy and political engagement project. In the session “Criminology: Race…

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UW-Green Bay professors present at the International Sports Heritage Association conference

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Kristin Bouchard

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Oct 4, 2022

Rachel Scray, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and Profs. Heidi Sherman, Humanities and History and Jon Shelton, Democracy and Justice Studies and History presented with Brent Hensel, Curator of the Packers Hall of Fame at the International Sports Heritage Association conference held this year at Lambeau Stadium. Their talk focused on an experimental…

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Green Bay Correctional Institution officers visit Democracy and Justice Studies classroom

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Kristin Bouchard

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Sep 27, 2022

Corrections officers from Green Bay Correctional Institution (GBCI) visited student in “Introduction to Democracy and Justice Studies” on Thursday, to talk about what it is like to work in GBCI. One of the officers included UW-Green Bay alum Claire Thiessen (Democracy and Justice Studies-Criminal Justice, ’17). Program graduates from the Democracy and Justice Studies-Criminal Justice major…

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