Two departments in the UWM Libraries received grants this fall to extend community engagement efforts. Digital Collections & Initiatives, in collaboration with the UWM Roberto Hernandez Center, was awarded a major grant from Wisconsin Humanities for a podcast based on …
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 …
Shevaun Watson, associate professor in the UWM Department of English, presents the 53rd Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture on Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 4 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference Center of the UWM Golda Meir Library. The title …
The authors of a newly published book, “Telling Our Stories: A History of Diversity at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1956-2022,” relied heavily on the collections and staff of the UWM Archives. The book chronicles the contributions of the diverse voices …
A partnership that began in 1993 between the UWM Libraries and UWM’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) has resulted in a comprehensive and still growing collection of Américas Award books available in the Golda Meir Library’s Curriculum Collection. …
Shevaun Watson, associate professor in UWM’s English department, has been selected to receive the 2022 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant and Lecture, sponsored by the UWM Libraries. Watson will present the 53rd annual Fromkin lecture on “The Comforts of Heritage: Tourism, …
Mordecai Lee, UWM professor emeritus, has made a generous donation to the UWM Libraries to create a named fund to acquire books on the subjects of US history, American government, public administration, and Jewish studies. Lee made the gift not …
The UWM Libraries strongly support the decision by the Library of Congress to replace the Library of Congress subject headings “Aliens” and “Illegal aliens” with “Noncitizens” and “Illegal immigration.” The change was announced at the November 12, 2021 meeting of …
We asked faculty in UWM’s Creative Writing Program to tell us about books they are currently reading or have recently read that they would recommend to the UWM community as we head into winter break. Several faculty generously shared their …
The 2021 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture will be presented by Anne Bonds, associate professor, UWM Department of Geography, and Derek Handley, assistant professor, UWM Department of English, with Reggie Jackson, journalist and educator/consultant, Nurturing Diversity Partners, LLC, and Lawrence Hoffman, GIS program manager …
