University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: July 2025

The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram

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Dr. Ethelene Whitmire’s latest book, The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram, the true story of a queer, Black man living in Europe during 20th century, will be released from Penguin Random House on February 3, 2026. “Award-winning historian Ethelene Whitmire unearthed a trove of Reed’s letters when she met one of his descendants at a …

The SoulFolk Collective featured in Sift & Winnow

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Dr. Jessica Lee Stovall and a team of eleven undergraduate and graduate students in the SoulFolk Collective were interviewed by Aaron R. Conklin for UW-Madison’s Sift and Winnow publication this July. Read the full piece, and watch the corresponding video segment by Marlita Bevenue here.