Wisconsin Magazine of History

Announcing the Winner of the 2023 Hesseltine Award

lease join the in congratulating Kim E. Nielsen on receiving the 2023 Hesseltine Award for volume 106. Nielsen’s article, “ Family Violence, Divorce, and Women’s Agency in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin,” appeared in the Winter 2022 issue, and was unanimously selected by our panel of judges. The William Best Hesseltine award is given to the

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