All three of the UWM Libraries’ Distinctive Collections–American Geographical Society Library, Archives, and Special Collections–will have pop-up exhibits, drawn from their collections, celebrating Latinx Heritage Month, September 15 to October 14, 2023.
Famous for its world-class collection of more than half a million maps and atlases, the American Geographical Society Library also boasts an extensive photograph collection, now nearing one million items, that is less well known. However, as more of the …
The Underground Railroad was a network of routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to freedom in the 19th century. Estimates vary wildly about how many people escaped slavery using the Underground Railroad – anywhere from 20,000 …
Eric Theise combines strategies from experimental film and animation, color theory, the Light and Space movement, and concrete poetry with open data and open source software to create digital maps that behave in ways never intended by the original developers. …
Dr. Sharity Bassett, visiting assistant professor of Women & Gender Studies and manager of the American Indian Student Center, presents a UWM Academic Adventurers talk, “Mapping Land History: Collaborating with the Oglala Lakota Nation on Land Research,” on Friday, March …
Presented by Dr. Alison Donnelly, Associate Professor, UWM Dept. of Geography. Dr. Donnelly will discuss the importance of monitoring shrubs and trees in Downer Woods to understand how climate change will impact temperate deciduous forests in general. She monitors the …
In November 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a U.S. cabinet Secretary, ordered a task force to find replacement names for valleys, lakes, creeks and other sites on federal lands that included …
Karen Lewis, chair of Undergraduate Studies in Architecture and associate professor of architecture at Ohio State University, presents the 2023 “Maps & America”: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture on Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 6 p.m. in the American Geographical Society Library, …
Presented by Dr. Gerlinde Höbel, associate professor in the Biological Sciences department at UWM. Dr. Höbel’s research deals with adaptations to communicate in complex and dynamic environments (such as a frog chorus), and with the effects of social interactions on communication …
This exhibit draws from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library to illustrate how the representation of wind on cartographic objects evolved as scientific knowledge of wind expanded.
