Dick Wagner, author of the recently published We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019), will give a presentation about his book at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 in the fourth floor Conference… Read More
The UWM Archives will officially launch the Oral History Interviews of the Wisconsin HIV/AIDS History Project Digital Collection on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2018. The Wisconsin HIV/AIDS History Project brings to light significant stories from the state’s history of HIV/AIDS… Read More
The UWM Libraries are one of two recipients of the 2018 Rethinking Resource Sharing (RSS) Innovation Award for the automation of resource sharing within the Wisconsin Area Research Center (ARC) Network. The Libraries received the award and a $250 check, courtesy… Read More
The UWM Libraries are substantial contributors to two remarkable exhibitions in Milwaukee museums this summer—Photographing Nature’s Cathedrals: Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and H.H. Bennett at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Look Here! at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. Look Here!… Read More
The Look Here! Project is an experiment initiated by the UWM Libraries and aimed at encouraging artists from the community and the UWM Peck School of the Arts to work with and create art from our digitized cultural heritage holdings – archival materials, photographs,… Read More
A $1 million gift was recently made to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries by an anonymous donor via the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. The gift will support the renovation of the Archives Department, which houses records related to the history of… Read More
This is a story about endurance. In 1962 Alderwoman Vel Phillips submitted her fair housing legislation to the Milwaukee Common Council. Between the years of 1963 and 1967, Phillips would reintroduce the fair housing bill three additional times, only to… Read More
On August 28, 1967, activists and community members, including Alderperson Vel Phillips, Father James Groppi, and the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council Commandos, marched to demand a fair housing ordinance for Milwaukee and an end to segregated housing in the city…. Read More
The launch of a series of events, “200 Nights of Freedom,” marking the 50th anniversary of Milwaukee’s 1967 open housing marches, was held at the Wisconsin Black Historical Society Museum last Saturday, August 5. A “History Harvest,” coordinated by the… Read More
A 90 x 10 foot mural unveiled this May on Milwaukee’s south side—honoring the 50-year history of United Migrant Opportunity Services (UMOS) and migrant workers in southeastern Wisconsin—was nurtured early on in its creative life in the UWM Libraries Archives…. Read More