UW-La Crosse History

10/08/2026

Free and open to the public! All are welcome!

09/28/2026

UWL History majors Kylie Lemke and Ella Tarwid present at the La Crosse Public Library on UWL's Oral History Program.

09/23/2026

All are welcome to attend the upcoming talk entitled "Oral History: The Value of Listening to Other People's Life Stories" at the La Crosse Public Library on Monday, September 28 at 10am. The speakers will be UWL history professor and director of the UWL Oral History Program Professor Heidi Morrison and UWL History students Kylie Lemke and Ella Tarwid.

09/21/2026

Film screening and discussion. Free and open to the public.

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.