• Free Headshots Courtesy of UWM and SET

    Vogel Hall 3253 N. Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    UWM now has an Iris Photobooth located in Vogel Hall and for a limited time are offering FREE headshots to students, staff and faculty! Monday, April 7 and Tuesday, April 8, 2025, between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, stop by …

    Free
  • The McGaffey Lecture Series Features the 2025 Rausing Prize Laureate

    Union Fireside Lounge 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. #W140, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The History Department's distinguished lecture will address museums and extinction. Please join us on Friday, April 25, 2025 from 3 to 5:00 pm in the Union Fireside Lounge as we welcome environmental historian Dolly Jørgensen, of the University of Stavanger. …

    Free
  • Margo Anderson to Speak on Her Recently Published Co-Authored Book

    Holton Hall 341

    As part of our noon talk tradition, the Department of History is pleased to announce that our colleague Margo Anderson is stepping in to deliver a talk based on her recently published co-authored book, Use and Misuse of the United …

    Free
  • Greg Carter at Boswell Books

    Boswell Books 2259 N. Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Boswell Book Company presents an evening with UWM History Professor Greg Carter, who appears with his new book I'd Just as Soon Kiss a Wookiee: Uncovering Racialized Desire in the Star Wars Galaxy. He will be joined in conversation by Lilly …

    Free
  • “The Black Dollar in 19th Century Baltimore”

    Mitchell Hall 206

    Join us on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 1:00 pm in Mitchell Hall room 206 as Dr. Marcus Allen from the Department of History presents, "The Black Dollar in 19th Century Baltimore." In Baltimore's nineteenth century black community, poverty and …

  • Doris Bergen Lecture

    Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Please join us on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 as Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto, presents "We have been lied to": How Antisemitism, Anti-Black Racism, and Misogyny are Linked. What …

  • Literature and Justice: Language and the Fight Against Feminicides

    Holton Hall 341

    The UW-Milwaukee Department of History Welcomes Dr. Diana Aldrete, Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies and Human Rights, Trinity College for Literature and Justice: Language and the Fight Against Feminicides. This talk explores how contemporary Mexican women writers transform …

  • Ofer Ashkenazi, “Navigating Profound Uncertainty: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”

    Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    This talk explores how German Jews used private photography to record and interpret their lives under National Socialism. Drawing on a database of some 15,000 images, it examines how these photographs documented daily experiences and reflected Jewish responses to escalating …

  • History’s Brown Bag Series Continues

    Please join us for the final History Department Brown Bag series event of the fall, 2026 semester.  Johnathan J. Kasparek presents "The Politician as Folk Hero: The Posthumous Career of Robert M. 'Fighting Bob' LaFollette." Event is free and open …