The UWM Libraries have launched the Desi Wisconsin South Asian Immigration Oral History Project. Led by Sharath Raja, a prominent Milwaukee resident, the project is an ongoing effort to document some of the first South Asian immigrants to Wisconsin from 1950-1979. The …
This semester, the UWM Libraries launched a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Plan to guide our work as we seek to be more intentional in our efforts to create a safe and welcoming environment for everyone at UWM. The plan …
A project that charts the racial housing covenants employed to segregate Milwaukee County in the 20th century and the fight against them has been awarded the UWM Libraries’ 2021 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant and Lectureship. The winning proposal – “Mapping …
The UWM Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections hold one of the largest collections of historical and contemporary LGBT materials in Wisconsin and the Midwest, including a rich record of Milwaukee’s LGBT communities. Topics covered in the Libraries’ LGBT Collection include …
The UWM Libraries join Chancellor Mark Mone and the UWM community in condemning police brutality, systemic racism, and racial injustice, here in America and across the world, and at the same time proclaim our strong support of the Black Lives …
To celebrate National Poetry Month, the UWM Libraries presented a live online reading by poets Margaret Rozga and Mauricio Kilwein Guevara on April 28, 2020. A recording of the event is available here. About the poets: Margaret “Peggy” Rozga is …
The UWM Libraries are presenting a live reading online by Wisconsin Poet Laureate Margaret Rozga and UW-Milwaukee Professor Mauricio Kilwein Guevara on Tuesday, April 28 at 1 p.m. The public is invited to this special event celebrating National Poetry Month …
The UWM Libraries are pleased to announce that the 2020 Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lectureship has been awarded to a collaborative team of five UWM faculty–Julie Ellis (Nursing), Paru Shah (Political Science), Sandra Millon-Underwood (Nursing), Renee Walker (Public …
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we highlight three notable photography collections held in our American Geographical Society Library and the women who created them, Mary Light Meader, Louise Arner Boyd, and Mary Jo Read. Above, from left: woman and …
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 …
