PUBLIC HISTORY PROJECT

The center grew out of a campus study group that looked into the history of two UW-Madison student organizations in the early 1920s that bore the name of the Ku Klux Klan. Chancellor Emerita Rebecca Blank commissioned the Public History Project as one of several responses to the study group's findings, and it began work in 2019. In 2023 the project was expanded into a permanent center on campus, under the university's Division of Teaching and Learning... The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Public History Project is a multi-year effort to uncover and give voice to those who experienced, challenged and overcame prejudice on campus. The project grew out of a campus study group that looked into the history of two UW-Madison student organizations in the early 1920s that bore the name of the.