- Celebrating Glendale at 75The 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 NouveauBlack Nouveau | Featured Author Lee Hawkins | Season 34 | Episode 2 | PBS
- Retrolab in the NewsStudents 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 LarbiUWM 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 GraduatesThe 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 RecognizedHere 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 BookThe 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 OutingOn 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 …
- Professor Evans Publishes New Book on Satellite CommunicationsCongratulations to Associate Professor Christine Evans, whose history of satellite communications, No Heavenly Bodies, has been published by MIT Press. Co-authored with Lars Lundgren, of Södertörn University in Stockholm, the book explores the role of Eastern Bloc nations in the development of global satellite networks. In contrast to much of the work on the Cold War’s …
- New Undergraduate Course in Public History to Debut this SpringFor the Spring 2024 Semester, the History Department is proud to offer its first undergraduate public history course (HIST 404). The course offers hands-on experience as the class will be working with UWM's Center for Nursing History on reviving some of its exhibits! Hist. 404 Topics in American History, course #48916 ‘What has been your …
- Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Phillip ShaskoCongratulations to Professor Emeritus Phillip Shasko, who was recently made an honorary member of the Academica Balkanica Europeana. The group fosters cross-cultural dialogue in the arts, scholarship, and diplomacy between the Balkan-area states and peoples and communities elsewhere in Europe. Shasko, the sole honoree this year from the United States, was among a highly international group …