{"id":4396,"date":"2022-11-14T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T18:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/?page_id=4396"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:51:08","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/about\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"uwm-p-posts uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-c-list--border has-dates\"><li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/inside-uwms-retrocomputing-lab-where-students-experience-the-digital-past-firsthand\/\">Inside 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s\u00a0Retrocomputing\u00a0Lab: Where Students Experience the Digital Past Firsthand\u00a0<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-15T15:28:31-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 15, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Students in HIST 399: \u201cHow the Computer Became Universal\u201d are not just learning about the history of&nbsp;computing;&nbsp;they are experiencing it.&nbsp; During a recent class session, students visited the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee\u2019s&nbsp;Retrocomputing&nbsp;Lab,&nbsp;located&nbsp;in Holton Hall 402. The lab, created and&nbsp;maintained&nbsp;by technology historian&nbsp;and professor&nbsp;Thomas Haigh, offers a&nbsp;special&nbsp;hands-on opportunity to explore the machines, software and materials that&nbsp;shape&nbsp;the digital world.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/uwms-history-departments-student-accolades\/\">51ÁÔÆæ&#8217;s History Department&#8217;s Student Accolades<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-13T09:38:04-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 13, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Many of our graduate students have been recognized for their outstanding efforts and we want to celebrate those accomplishments: exploding party popper with serpantin and serpantinom, vector eps10 illustration Sadique Oddoye, current MA student, will be attending the PhD program in African History at the University of Miami. Congratulations Sadique! Patrick Hall, PhD student in &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/nathan-connolly-delivers-6th-annual-mcgaffey-lecture-on-family-history-and-capitalism\/\">Nathan Connolly Delivers\u00a06th\u00a0Annual\u00a0McGaffey Lecture on Family History and Capitalism<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-08T15:05:45-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">April 8, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">On April 2,\u00a0we had the privilege of hosting the 6th annual McGaffey Lecture with speaker Nathan\u00a0Connolly of Johns Hopkins University.\u00a0The lecture,\u00a0\u201cLetters from the Ancestors: Family\u00a0History and our Capitalist Future.\u201d\u00a0Draws from four generations of family archives, Connolly explores how\u00a0Caribbean\u00a0family histories reveal the lived\u00a0realities\u00a0of racialized\u00a0capitalism,\u00a0economic precarity and structural inequality.\u00a0 At the heart of the lecture was Connolly\u2019s &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/student-spotlight-frischa-aswarini-selected-for-international-feminist-learning-program\/\">Student Spotlight: Frischa Aswarini Selected for International Feminist Learning Program<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-03-30T12:48:12-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">March 30, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">The Department of History at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee is proud to highlight PhD student Frischa Aswarini, for her participation in Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan (SPP) &#8211; The School of Women\u2019s Thought, an international initiative dedicated to amplifying women\u2019s voices and knowledge. The semester-long program, which runs from February 7 through June 6, 2026, brings together &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/uwm-remembers-historian-david-d-buck\/\">51ÁÔÆæ Remembers Historian David D. Buck<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-03-11T16:24:30-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">March 11, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee community mourns the loss of David Douglas Buck, professor emeritus of history and a longtime supporter of the university. Buck passed away on March 6, 2026, in Milwaukee at the age of 89. A respected scholar of modern Chinese history, Buck dedicated more than three decades to teaching and research at &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/new-faculty-alert\/\">New Faculty Alert<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-02-09T08:05:22-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">February 9, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Please help us in welcoming Professor Xin Yu, Assistant Professor, Buck Professor of Chinese History to 51ÁÔÆæ.Professor Yu joined the department after completing his PhD in 2022 from Washington University in St. Louis and was drawn to 51ÁÔÆæ by the strong sense of community he experienced during his campus visit. His research focuses on the &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/spring-latin-table-2\/\">Spring Latin Table<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-01-29T13:25:44-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">January 29, 2026<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Thursdays, 4-5 pm CRT 866 Practice spoken Latin! Everyone is welcome!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/celebrating-glendale-at-75\/\">Celebrating Glendale at 75<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-12-11T09:20:10-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">December 11, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">The place now called Glendale, Wisconsin, has had many incarnations. It was once the home of ancient mound builders and,\u00a0later, a Menomini village. It became the Town of Milwaukee and, eventually, the City of Glendale. Now it is both a suburb of Milwaukee and a cooperative neighbor\u00a0to other North Shore municipalities, and UW-Milwaukee&#039;s History Department&#039;s &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/professor-marcus-allen-on-black-nouveau\/\">Professor Marcus Allen on Black Nouveau<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-11-17T08:26:29-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">November 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Black Nouveau | Featured Author Lee Hawkins | Season 34 | Episode 2 | PBS<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/retrolab-in-the-news\/\">Retrolab in the News<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-11-17T08:24:36-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">November 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Students explore vintage computers in UW-Milwaukee&#039;s specialized Retrolab. Click here to read the news.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/david-mulroy-in-memoriam\/\">David Mulroy, In Memoriam<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-09-24T14:25:24-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">September 24, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">We are sharing the sad news of the passing of David Mulroy, Professor Emeritus in Classics at 51ÁÔÆæ.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/history\/retrolab-to-be-featured-at-uwm\/\">RetroLab to be featured at 51ÁÔÆæ!<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-09-17T10:59:03-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">September 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Professor Thomas Haigh&#039;s Retro Computing lab, one of only four in the nation, will be featured in an episode of 51ÁÔÆæ&#039;s Urban Spelunking. 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