Grandson Endows Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lecture

The UWM Libraries are deeply grateful to Daniel Soyer, a grandson of Morris Fromkin, who has created an endowment for the research grant and lecture series that bears his grandfather’s name. Morris Fromkin, who practiced law first in Milwaukee and …

UWM Libraries Receive $1 Million Gift for Archives Project

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 …

Longtime AGSL Supporters Generously Donate to New Fellowship Program

A passion for maps ignited more than a half-century ago and fueled by decades of collecting and study, led Arthur and Janet Holzheimer to establish–with geographers Brian Harley and David Woodward—the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) “Maps & America” lecture …