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Welcome to the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. We are dedicated to teaching and researching the history of the world. We believe that obtaining a nuanced and informed historical perspective can help every citizen think critically, clearly and creatively.
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News and Announcements
Speaker Event: Lee Reiherzer presents “Winnebago Beer, a History of Brewing in Winnebago County.”
The talk will cover the advent of brewing in Winnebago County and chart its explosive growth through the 19th century to its lingering decline in the 20th century. With visits along the way to the areas saloons, taprooms, and hop farms. All of it leading to the...
read moreBeginning on October 23 Polk Library will host an exhibit titled Lands We Share: Farming, History and Place in Five Wisconsin Communities. An offshoot of the Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project—toward which hundreds of UW Oshkosh students taking Quest III courses have contributed—Lands We Share is the result of a collaboration between faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students on four UW System campuses.
Lands We Share focuses on five unique farming stories—the story of the small farming community of Allenville (located just a few miles west of Oshkosh), the story of the first certified organic Hmong farm in Wisconsin (Vang C&C Farm), the story of a longstanding German-American dairy farm in Jefferson County, the story of urban gardening in Milwaukee’s Metcalfe Park neighborhood, and the story of farming as practiced by Oneida Indians in Outagamie County.
The exhibit will be located across from the Circulation Desk in Polk through November 1. Catch it there before it travels to the Oneida Nation and then points throughout Wisconsin.
For more information contact The Lands We Share website (landsweshare.org) or exhibit co-curator Stephen Kercher (kercher@uwosh.edu)
Please join Professor Andrea Jakobs as she screens "Gallipoli" as part of the History Club/Phi Alpha Theta Movie Series. The event will take place Wednesday, October 24th from 6:30pm-9:00pm in Sage 1210. All students are welcome! There will be a brief discussion following the screening.
Gallipoli is a story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the resolute Turkish army.
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Directed by Peter Weir. With Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins. Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey ...HOLOCAUST STORIES: IN THEIR HONOR
Featuring, Sam Peltz
Sunday, October 21, 10:00am
Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center
Daniel M. Soref Community Hall
6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd.
Milwaukee
Please join us as we listen to the courageous story of survival of Holocaust Survivor, Sam Peltz. This program allows community members, both teenagers and adults an opportunity to hear testimonies of Holocaust Survivors and to recognize these unique individuals for their heroic survival and their creation of a new life on American soil.
Interview conducted by local journalist: Ben Merens
Free & open to the public.
Generously sponsored by:
Wendy & Sheldon Wasserman
Melanie & Russ Wasserman