{"id":7095,"date":"2026-10-16T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:16:14","slug":"department-news-fall-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/department-news-fall-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Department News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"h-nathan-connolly-delivers-6th-annual-mcgaffey-lecture-on-family-history-and-capitalism-nbsp-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nathan Connolly Delivers 6th Annual McGaffey Lecture on Family History and Capitalism&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/NBD-Connolly-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Nathan Connolly\" class=\"wp-image-6735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/NBD-Connolly-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/NBD-Connolly-682x1024.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/NBD-Connolly-768x1154.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/NBD-Connolly-1023x1536.jpeg 1023w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/NBD-Connolly-1363x2048.jpeg 1363w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/NBD-Connolly-scaled.jpeg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption>N.B.D. Connolly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On April 2,&nbsp;we had the privilege of hosting the 6th annual McGaffey Lecture with speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/history.jhu.edu\/directory\/nathan-connolly\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/history.jhu.edu\/directory\/nathan-connolly\/\">Nathan&nbsp;Connolly of Johns Hopkins University<\/a>.&nbsp;The lecture,&nbsp;<em>\u201cLetters from the Ancestors: Family&nbsp;History and our Capitalist Future.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>Draws from four generations of family archives, Connolly explores how&nbsp;Caribbean&nbsp;family histories reveal the lived&nbsp;realities&nbsp;of racialized&nbsp;capitalism,&nbsp;economic precarity and structural inequality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the heart of the lecture was Connolly\u2019s great-grandfather, William&nbsp;\u201cSmiley\u201d Connolly, a&nbsp;multilingual&nbsp;Caribbean intellectual.&nbsp;writer and activist whose life unfolded across the British&nbsp;Empire and the United States in the early&nbsp;twentieth&nbsp;century. Although widely&nbsp;respected&nbsp;in community and&nbsp;intellectual&nbsp;circle, Smiley Connolly never held a formal academic&nbsp;position,&nbsp;noting how many Black scholars and thinkers existed historically outside traditional institutions. By tracing&nbsp;Smiley\u2019s life through scattered documents, letters, and family stories, Connolly&nbsp;demonstrates&nbsp;how personal archives can&nbsp;help to explain larger histories of colonialism,&nbsp;migration&nbsp;and economic struggle.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connolly described the process of reconstructing these histories as working through what he calls a \u201cdemented archive\u201d&nbsp;a mix of official documents, fragmented letters, oral histories and family memories shaped by illness,&nbsp;migration&nbsp;and generational storytelling. These materials, he argued, reveal how families navigate systems that often deny&nbsp;them&nbsp;stability or recognition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Connolly explained during the lecture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we need is not men who will make the world safe for democracy, but men who will make the world unsafe for autocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lecture highlighted several key themes, including how family archives can help us understand the development of racial capitalism, the ways working-class families navigated racism and financial instability&nbsp;and how family narrative,&nbsp;particularly those surrounding women,&nbsp;can obscure the structural causes of economic hardship. Connolly challenged audiences to rethink how inherited stories shape our understanding of responsibility,&nbsp;success&nbsp;and failure within capitalist systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cLetters from the Ancestors\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;invited attendees to reflect on how personal histories intersect with larger political and economic structures. By connecting his family\u2019s experiences in the Caribbean and the United States to contemporary inequalities, Connolly encouraged listeners to consider how we engage with institutions today and how the stories we tell about our past influence the futures we imagine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-inside-uwm-s-retrocomputing-lab-where-students-experience-the-digital-past-firsthand-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inside UWM&#8217;s Retrocomputing Lab: Where Students Experience the Digital Past Firsthand&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students in HIST 399: \u201cHow the Computer Became Universal\u201d are not just learning about the history of&nbsp;computing;&nbsp;they are experiencing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a recent class session, students visited the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tomandmaria.com\/retrolab\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/tomandmaria.com\/retrolab\/\">Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab<\/a>,&nbsp;located&nbsp;in Holton Hall 402. The lab, created and&nbsp;maintained&nbsp;by technology historian&nbsp;and professor&nbsp;Thomas Haigh, offers a&nbsp;special&nbsp;hands-on opportunity to explore the machines, software and materials that&nbsp;shape&nbsp;the digital world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab is one of only four of its kind in the United States,&nbsp;and the only one operated within a history department, making it a unique resource for both teaching and research.\u202f&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"h-a-lab-built-for-experience-not-just-observation\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Lab Built for Experience, Not Just Observation<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike a traditional museum, the&nbsp;Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab is designed as a working collection of everyday machines. Students&nbsp;don\u2019t&nbsp;just look at the&nbsp;past,&nbsp;they interact with it.&nbsp;The lab includes around 20 fully functional computer systems, along with printers, storage devices,&nbsp;manuals&nbsp;and software spanning from the late 1970s through the early 2000s.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the collection comes from Haigh\u2019s personal archive, combined with donations, university surplus, and carefully selected additions.\u202fThis approach reflects the lab\u2019s central goal: not to collect rare or exotic artifacts, but to recreate what it&nbsp;actually felt&nbsp;like&nbsp;to use&nbsp;computers in different eras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"h-nbsp-why-hands-on-history-matters\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;Why Hands-On History Matters<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As highlighted in a recent feature by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91483774\/these-historic-computing-labs-teach-kids-what-technology-was-like-before-phones-social-media-and-the-cloud\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91483774\/these-historic-computing-labs-teach-kids-what-technology-was-like-before-phones-social-media-and-the-cloud\">Fast Company<\/a>,&nbsp;one of the biggest challenges in teaching the history of computing is that today\u2019s students have no lived experience with older technologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many undergraduates, devices like&nbsp;the&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;II,&nbsp;early IBM PCs, or even floppy disks were already obsolete before they were born.\u202f&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Haigh created the&nbsp;Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab in part to bridge that gap. By giving&nbsp;students&nbsp;the chance to load programs from disks, navigate early operating systems, or play vintage games, the lab makes abstract history tangible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the article explains, this kind of experience cannot be fully replicated through emulators or modern devices. The physical interaction,&nbsp;the keyboards, the delays, and the trial-and-error&nbsp;process are&nbsp;essential to understanding how computing actually worked.\u202f&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"h-inside-the-classroom-hist-399\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inside the Classroom: HIST 399<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/IMG_8651-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"a person standing in front of a group of people sitting at computers\" class=\"wp-image-6751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/IMG_8651-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/IMG_8651-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/IMG_8651-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/IMG_8651-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2026\/04\/IMG_8651-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In HIST 399, students examine how computers evolved from niche tools into universal technologies. The&nbsp;Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab plays&nbsp;a central role&nbsp;in that process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the recent class visit, students explored early personal computing systems such as the&nbsp;Altair 8800, TRS-80 Model I and Apple II,&nbsp;machines that introduced programming,&nbsp;gaming&nbsp;and personal productivity into everyday life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They also examined a mechanical teletype terminal, which printed computer responses onto paper, offering insight into how people interacted with computers before modern screens and interfaces.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through these experiences, students gain a clearer understanding of both the technical limitations and the cultural expectations surrounding early computing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"h-looking-back-to-understand-the-future\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Looking Back to Understand the Future<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab is not only about preserving the past, but also about helping students think critically about the future of technology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Fast Company article notes, modern computing increasingly relies on cloud services, online infrastructure, and constantly updated software. This raises important questions about what aspects of today\u2019s technology will be preserved, and what may be lost.\u202f&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By contrast, many of the systems in the&nbsp;Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab are fully self-contained, allowing them to be restored, studied and experienced decades later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lab also reflects a growing interest among students in tangible, understandable, and not constantly connected technology, a contrast to today\u2019s always-online digital environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"h-a-resource-for-the-uwm-community\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Resource for the UWM Community<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab is open to members of the UWM community by appointment or during scheduled open house sessions. Students interested in technology history, restoration work, or hands-on experimentation are encouraged to get involved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the lab continues to grow, it&nbsp;remains&nbsp;a unique space where past and present intersect, allowing students to understand not just how computers work but how they became essential to everyday life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-uwm-s-retrolab-welcomes-doors-open-milwaukee\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">UWM&#8217;s RetroLab Welcomes Doors Open Milwaukee&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part nostalgic digital playground, part digital and technological history lesson, UWM\u2019s Retrolab in Holton Hall 402 is one of just four such retro computing labs in the entire country. Its collection of some 50 vintage computers dates back to the 1970s \u2013 from PCs and Apple Macintosh machines to legends like the Apple II, Atari 2600 and Commodore 64. Complete with productivity and entertainment software, it serves as a valuable, hands-on teaching experience for UWM students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"h-visitor-experience\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visitor Experience<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step into the Retrolab and back into the computer gaming world of days gone by. Visitors will get a few minutes to play their favorite old-school games on their original machines and explore the lab\u2019s fully functioning catalog of computers. You\u2019ll also meet the UWM history professor who created the space, preserves the machines and made it what it is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check it out at <a href=\"https:\/\/historicmilwaukee.org\/doors-open\/buildings\/uwm-history-department-retro-computing-lab\/\">https:\/\/historicmilwaukee.org\/doors-open\/buildings\/uwm-history-department-retro-computing-lab\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Connolly Delivers 6th Annual McGaffey Lecture on Family History and Capitalism&nbsp;&nbsp; On April 2,&nbsp;we had the privilege of hosting the 6th annual McGaffey Lecture with speaker Nathan&nbsp;Connolly of Johns Hopkins University.&nbsp;The lecture,&nbsp;\u201cLetters from the Ancestors: Family&nbsp;History and our Capitalist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[127],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department-newsletter","tag-fall-2026"],"uwm_unpublish_requested":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/department-news-fall-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Department News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nathan Connolly Delivers 6th Annual McGaffey Lecture on Family History and Capitalism&nbsp;&nbsp; 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