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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Morals, Meaning, and Nonsense

Morals, Meaning, and Nonsense

Ethical inquiry requires lived experience, not just logical examination

by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen | Monday, August 15, 2022
E Pluribus Unum?

E Pluribus Unum?

Our national identity has always been hotly contested

by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen | Thursday, June 03, 2021

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last month at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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