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 …
Black Nouveau | Featured Author Lee Hawkins | Season 34 | Episode 2 | PBS
Students explore vintage computers in UW-Milwaukee’s specialized Retrolab. Click here to read the news.
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!
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, …
The Department of History wishes congratulations to all our spring, 2025 graduates. Here are just a couple of photos from the ceremonies.
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!
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 …
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 …
Congratulations 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 …
