• UWM Student Presents Research at State Capitol
    UW-Milwaukee student Oli Pierce was one speaker who presented research at the Wisconsin State Capitol on Wednesday, March 11, 2026. Please select this link for more details https://www.wmtv15news.com/2026/03/11/wisconsin-college-students-present-research-state-capitol/
  • UWM Remembers Historian David D. Buck
    The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee community mourns the loss of David Douglas Buck, professor emeritus of history and a longtime supporter of the university. Buck passed away on March 6, 2026, in Milwaukee at the age of 89. A respected scholar of modern Chinese history, Buck dedicated more than three decades to teaching and research at …
  • New Faculty Alert
    Please help us in welcoming Professor Xin Yu, Assistant Professor, Buck Professor of Chinese History to UWM.Professor Yu joined the department after completing his PhD in 2022 from Washington University in St. Louis and was drawn to UWM by the strong sense of community he experienced during his campus visit. His research focuses on the …
  • Celebrating Glendale at 75
    The place now called Glendale, Wisconsin, has had many incarnations. It was once the home of ancient mound builders and, later, a Menomini village. It became the Town of Milwaukee and, eventually, the City of Glendale. Now it is both a suburb of Milwaukee and a cooperative neighbor to other North Shore municipalities, and UW-Milwaukee's History Department's …
  • Professor Marcus Allen on Black Nouveau
    Black Nouveau | Featured Author Lee Hawkins | Season 34 | Episode 2 | PBS
  • Retrolab in the News
    Students explore vintage computers in UW-Milwaukee's specialized Retrolab. Click here to read the news.
  • RetroLab to be featured at UWM!
    Professor Thomas Haigh's Retro Computing lab, one of only four in the nation, will be featured in an episode of UWM's Urban Spelunking. See details here. UWM Urban Spelunking Episode 3: RetroLab – UWM Post Congratulations, Tom!
  • Award Winner Michael Larbi
    UWM History Department PhD student, Michael Larbi, was recently selected to win the prestigious Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel Award for $2,500. The Award will be presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Atlanta, GA, November 20-22. The Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel Award is awarded to competitively selected students …
  • Congratulations Graduates
    The Department of History wishes congratulations to all our spring, 2025 graduates. Here are just a couple of photos from the ceremonies. Martin Kozon with Neal Pease Kitonga Alexander with Rebecca Shumway
  • Ken Bartelt’s Work Recognized
    Here is coverage from the Shepherd-Express of the exhibit about Beckum-Stapleton Little League that our own History PhD student Ken Bartelt co-curated at MSOE's Grohmann' Museum. Congratulations Ken!
  • Associate Professor Carter Publishes New Book
    The Star Wars saga takes place in a galaxy far, far away, but its social structures—in particular its racial realities—are thoroughly American. So argues Greg Carter in this thought-provoking analysis, which blends historical and theoretical treatments of science fiction cinema and Star Wars fandom to explore the subtle mirroring between fantasy and the communities that …
  • Sugarbush Outing
    On March 3, 2025, AIS/HIst 474 went to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Field Station- Cedarburg Bog and started iskigamizigan, sugarbush. The students each found an ininatig, sugar maple, that they would tap to obtain the gift of the sweet sap from the ininatigoog, sugar maples plural. In all we tapped 25 ininatigoog and collected around 150 …

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