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“A Credit to Our City as Well as Our State”
In the fall of 1947, Mary Evelyn Williams and Willie M. Mitchell enrolled in Milwaukee’s Pressley School of Beauty Culture, the only Black beauty school in Wisconsin, which had opened three years prior. After paying their enrollment fees and going to
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Announcing The Winner Of The 2023 Hesseltine Award
Please join the Wisconsin Magazine of History in congratulating Kim E. Nielsen on receiving the 2023 Hesseltine Award for volume 106. Nielsen’s article, “Ott v. Ott: Family Violence, Divorce, and Women’s Agency in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin,” appea
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Letters
I read Matt Blessing’s wonderful story about Hal Bradley, from the Winter 2023 issue, with delight. I met Hal Bradley at the Sierra Club headquarters in 1964, where I had spent the day reading an as-yet unpublished manuscript [about the Hetch Hetchy

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