Category Archives: Archives & ARC

New Stuff Tuesday – October 8th

Whitewater College High School Yearbooks, 1940-1942 Archives & Area Research Center, 1st Floor From the very beginning of the Whitewater Normal School (now UW-Whitewater) until the 1960s, the college offered a training or laboratory school for local children, kindergarten through … Continue reading

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Honoring the WWI Gold Star men

As the smoke cleared from the battlefields of World War I, the Whitewater Normal School came together to honor those who served and those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the cause.  May 30, 1919, was the first Memorial Day … Continue reading

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Whitewater Normal School Exhibit

This post was created by UW-Whitewater student Morgan Zdroik As we celebrate the University of Wisconsin Whitewater’s 150th anniversary, you may wonder what 1868, the first year of, then Whitewater Normal was like. Who were the faculty? What did campus … Continue reading

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Chancellor Greenhill Exhibit

This post was created by UW-Whitewater student Brendan Knoflicek. This spring semester of my junior year of college I had the opportunity to work as a public history intern at the UW-Whitewater Archives and Area Research Center in Andersen Library. … Continue reading

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