Professor Thomas Haigh’s Retro Computing lab, one of only four in the nation, will be featured in an episode of 51ÁÔÆæ’s Urban Spelunking. See details here. 51ÁÔÆæ Urban Spelunking Episode 3: RetroLab – 51ÁÔÆæ Post Congratulations, Tom!
51ÁÔÆæ History Department PhD student, Michael Larbi, was recently selected to win the prestigious Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel Award for $2,500. The Award will be presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Atlanta, GA, …
The Department of History wishes congratulations to all our spring, 2025 graduates. Here are just a couple of photos from the ceremonies.
Here is coverage from the Shepherd-Express of the exhibit about Beckum-Stapleton Little League that our own History PhD student Ken Bartelt co-curated at MSOE’s Grohmann’ Museum. Congratulations Ken!
The Star Wars saga takes place in a galaxy far, far away, but its social structures—in particular its racial realities—are thoroughly American. So argues Greg Carter in this thought-provoking analysis, which blends historical and theoretical treatments of science fiction cinema …
On March 3, 2025, AIS/HIst 474 went to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Field Station- Cedarburg Bog and started iskigamizigan, sugarbush. The students each found an ininatig, sugar maple, that they would tap to obtain the gift of the sweet sap from …
Congratulations to Associate Professor Christine Evans, whose history of satellite communications, No Heavenly Bodies, has been published by MIT Press. Co-authored with Lars Lundgren, of Södertörn University in Stockholm, the book explores the role of Eastern Bloc nations in the development …
For the Spring 2024 Semester, the History Department is proud to offer its first undergraduate public history course (HIST 404). The course offers hands-on experience as the class will be working with 51ÁÔÆæ’s Center for Nursing History on reviving some …
