University of Wisconsin Oshkosh history

The university was the first such school in the nation to have a kindergarten; Professor Rose C. Swart introduced practice teaching in 1872.

Second is the Multicultural Education Center (also known as the Wall House), built in 1898 for Thomas Wall, a lumberman and banker.

First is the Pollock House, built in 1920 for W.E. Pollock, the president of a company that would later become known as Oshkosh B’Gosh.

Swart Hall, now used mostly as a math and psychology building, was built in 1928 as a training school for the aspiring educators of the Normal School.

A graduate school was added in 1963, transforming the one-time normal school into a fully developed university.

The hall became a specialized geography and geology building after Halsey Science Center was built in 1964.

At the threshold of its second century of service in 1972, the university continues to prepare students for the work defined by its first president, George S. Albee, as dedicated to "lifting humanity to a higher, noble life."

Innovations — such as a new academic calendar with 14-week semesters and three-week interim sessions and a Faculty Development Program — followed when Chancellor Robert Birnbaum arrived in 1974.

“The Fear of Divine Vengeance: Mnemonic Images as a Guide to Conscience in the Late Middle Ages,” in Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, 66-91 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002).

James Frey (2009). “The Indian Saltpeter Trade, the Military Revolution, and the Rise of Britain as a Global Superpower,” The Historian, 71:3 (Fall, 2009), 507-554.

Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice: Memory, Images, and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols Press, 2010).

James Frey (2012). “Prickly Pears & Pagodas: The East India Company’s Failure to Establish a Cochineal Industry in Early Colonial India,” The Historian, 74:2 (Summer, 2012), 241-66.

Reflections on my Spring 2013 Fulbright Teaching Award in Hungary can be found at a blog: http://oshkoshtopecs.blogspot.hu