The UWM Archives has loaned four rare photographs by pioneer modernist László Moholy-Nagy to the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) for inclusion in the exhibit “The Bauhaus, László Moholy-Nagy, and Milwaukee.” The photographs are part of The Little Review collection, an …
The UWM Libraries have digitized a large number of issues of Invictus, a publication launched by the Black Student Union in 1977. One of UWM’s longest-running student newspapers, Invictus gave voice to the University’s African American student body with news …
A collaborative team led by Ann Hanlon, head of Digital Collections and Initiatives at the UWM Libraries, and Dan Siercks, interim director for Web and Data Services in the UWM College of Letters & Science, has received a $50,000 Andrew …
The UWM Libraries announce the new Division of Distinctive Collections, which brings together the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), Archives, and Special Collections. Marcy Bidney, curator of AGSL, has been named Assistant Director of the division. The reorganization follows a …
Richard 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 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 in the fourth floor …
Reference and Instruction Archivist Abigail Nye loves both halves of her job—assisting scholars on what she calls their “treasure hunts” and introducing undergraduates to the Archives’ potential—and each, she notes, directly impacts UWM’s strategic goals of research excellence and student …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …