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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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Curio
Long-time Sun Prairie residents will remember the flying saucer that stood at the corner of West Main and Hart Streets from 1974 until 1983. The Finnish-designed structure was the signature piece of the Galaxy Plaza. The out-of-this-world building be
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Stronger Than Law
On Friday, July 10, 1840, William Maxwell walked into H. J. Morrison’s store at the southeast corner of Main and Second Streets in Platteville, Wisconsin Territory, and purchased a pair of pants and a bar of soap. Maxwell, a Black man, worked as a le

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