UW-La Crosse History

05/30/2026

Graduating senior Isabella Pahl presented her research on the history of Door County at the recent annual conference of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) in New Haven, Connecticut.

She knocked it out of the park, presenting an outstanding paper and handling questions from the large audience like a pro!

Isabella will graduate in August with a double major in public and policy history and French. She received an undergraduate research grant to conduct the archival research that led to this paper. Her travel to the conference was supported by grants from the history department and the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, and by NASOH's Chad Smith Student Travel Grant.

05/23/2026

Our future teachers graduate …

05/19/2026

On May 7, Professor Beaujot's class presented "Careers in Public History, Community Engaged Learning zine-fest." Students worked hard on zines about parking lots around La Crosse proposing how to make these spaces better. This will be published as a series titled "If Wishes were Fishes" put out by Ope! Press.

05/06/2026

05/05/2026

History 490 Capstone students presented their final projects on May 4, 2026. (The course was taught by Professors Tiffany Trimmer and Víctor M. Macías-González).

Andrew Brown, “Between Soot and Steam: The Experience of La Crosse, Wisconsin's Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, 1873-1960.”

Maxwell Christensen, “A Debt of Blood: The Ho-Chunk Nation on Trial in Jackson County, 1870-1930.”

Isabella Pahl, “From ‘the Large, Nameless Peninsula’ to Wisconsin’s Cherryland: Marketing Door County in the Twentieth Century.”

05/01/2026

Anthony Buss and Isabella Pahl honored at the UWL CASSH Recognition of Excellence!! Anthony is a broadfield social studies major, and Isabella is a double major in history and French.

05/01/2026

UWs Research Symposium! Our brilliant student Jack Alexander! Jack shared a website he developed based on his research on tuberculosis in the Midwest in Dr. Hardy's Epidemics in World History class last fall.

05/01/2026

UWs Research Symposium poster session! Our brilliant student Madison Giles! Madison shared a project based on her research on the AIDS pandemic in Dr. Hardy's Epidemics in World History class last fall. She made a quilt about the AIDS Quilt!

04/22/2026

Student teachers share insights at national conference in Washington, D.C.

04/02/2026

Our students met with area representatives, including Jill Billings (pictured here).