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  • Wisconsin Magazine of History17 min read
    Engineering Music History
    On the evening of Friday, October 17, 2003, more than five hundred concertgoers packed into the Todd Wehr Auditorium, a performance space on the campus of the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). They had come to see a series of alternative music
    Wisconsin Magazine of History1 min readAmerican Government
    Masthead
    Director, Wisconsin Historical Society Press Josh LeventhalExecutive Editor Sara E. PhillipsEditors Carrie Kilman, Ruth Thomas, Kate Thompson, Elizabeth WyckoffAssociate Editor Kaitlyn HeinImage Researcher John H. NondorfDesign Huston Design Presiden
    Wisconsin Magazine of History25 min read
    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
    Wisconsin Magazine of History1 min read
    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
    Wisconsin Magazine of History2 min read
    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 I met Hal Bradley at the Sierra Club headquarters in 1964, where I had spent the day reading an as-yet unpublished manuscript [about the Hetch Hetchy
    Wisconsin Magazine of History7 min readAmerican Government
    Wisconsin For Kennedy
    The following selection comes from Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary That Launched a President and Changed the Course of History, written by B.J. Hollars and released in Spring 2024 from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. In early 1960, preside
    Wisconsin Magazine of History12 min read
    The NAMING
    Every season, my family—two brothers, two sisters, Mom, and me—climbed into Uncle Tommy’s Ford and rode north for three hours, mostly in silence. We were heading from Milwaukee to Wisconsin Rapids for the Potawatomi Drum Dance ceremony. Sitting still
    Wisconsin Magazine of History2 min read
    Letter From The Editor
    As you open this issue, you may, like me, be waiting to see the first stubborn signs of spring: the crocus, early daffodil, or skunk cabbage. Like these early spring ephemerals, each of the articles in our Spring issue has in common an individual or
    Wisconsin Magazine of History1 min read
    Curio
    It’s said that in winter, the waters of Wisconsin lakes get so cold that the fish grow fur to stay warm. In Wisconsin folklore, the fur-bearing fish lives alongside more well-known fanciful creatures like the Hodag, the Wendigo, and Bigfoot. Tales of
    Wisconsin Magazine of History2 min read
    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
    Wisconsin Magazine of History23 min read
    Outdoor Disciples of the Strenuous Life
    When Josephine Crane announced her intent to wed a professor at the University of Wisconsin, her devoted father began preparations for the summer ceremony. Charles R. Crane, the scion of a Chicago industrialist, instructed gardeners to manicure Jerse
    Wisconsin Magazine of History16 min read
    Chief Buffalo Goes to Washington
    The following excerpt comes from Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America (UNC Press, 2022) by Michael John Witgen, which was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History. Against lon
    Wisconsin Magazine of History13 min read
    A Parsonage in New Hope
    Marianna Farseth (1894–1971) was the youngest of seven children born to Olaus Christensen Farseth (1852–1913) and his wife, Kathrina (1856–1936), immigrants who came with their eldest daughter, Anna, from the near-Arctic island of Vega, Norway, which
    Wisconsin Magazine of History2 min read
    Letter From The Press Director
    As the new director of the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, I am honored to share my thoughts in this newest issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. The magazine is such a vital resource for sharing history and connecting with members of the W
    Wisconsin Magazine of History1 min read
    Wisconsin Magazine of History
    Director, Wisconsin Historical Society Press Josh LeventhalExecutive Editor Sara E. PhillipsEditors Carrie Kilman, Kate Thompson, Elizabeth WyckoffImage Researcher John H. NondorfResearch and Editorial Assistants Kaitlyn Hein, Ruth ThomasDesign Husto
    Wisconsin Magazine of History20 min read
    Survival Food
    The following excerpt is a chapter from Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook, released in fall 2023 by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. In this hybrid work of modern foodways, Indigenous history, and creative nonfiction, Thom
    Wisconsin Magazine of History23 min read
    What’s In A Name
    My grandfather had always been called Joseph Szedziewski—or so I thought. An immigrant who arrived in the US in 1912, Joseph lived, worked, and worshipped in Milwaukee’s Polish neighborhoods for over four decades. To his American-born descendants, he
    Wisconsin Magazine of History9 min read
    BOOK EXCERPT Never Givin’ Up
    The following selection is from Never Givin’ Up: The Life and Music of Al Jarreau, which will be released this fall by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. From his earliest days singing in the 1940s until his death in 2017, Al Jarreau defied cate
    Wisconsin Magazine of History20 min read
    “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
    Wisconsin Magazine of History2 min read
    Letter From The Editor
    For me, fall is the season of reinvention. I was a kid who loved school, and that first day back carried with it a sense of anticipation and possibility. Added to this was the fact that every few years I started over in an altogether new place, as my
    Wisconsin Magazine of History22 min readCrime & Violence
    Who Owned the Trees?
    A light rain was falling in Washington, DC, as the nine members of the US Supreme Court gathered in the old Senate Chamber of the Capitol on the morning of March 19, 1874.1 The justices worked their way through a lengthy docket of business items and
    Wisconsin Magazine of History1 min read
    Curio
    Reports of Thomas Edison’s experiments with electric lighting cropped up frequently in newspapers starting around 1878. As a result, gas stock values fell and public anticipation for a cheaper means of illumination grew. On New Year’s Eve 1879, Ediso
    Wisconsin Magazine of History1 min readAmerican Government
    Wisconsin Magazine of History
    Director, Wisconsin Historical Society Press Kate Thompson Executive Editor Sara E. PhillipsEditors Carrie Kilman, Elizabeth WyckoffImage Researcher John H. NondorfResearch and Editorial Assistants Kaitlyn Hein, Ruth ThomasDesign Huston Design Presid
    Wisconsin Magazine of History2 min read
    Letters
    From time to time, we receive letters from readers about articles published several issues—or even several years—ago. The examples below remind us of the connections, personal and political, that fuel our interest in history. The letter from Barbara
    Wisconsin Magazine of History1 min readChemistry
    Curio
    This lead toy molding kit was purchased in about 1930 by Jane and Anton Asmuth of Watertown, Wisconsin, for their sons Anton Jr., Robert, and James. The kit included molds, paints, lead bars, and a ladle. The bars were melted in the ladle held over a
    Wisconsin Magazine of History3 min read
    Thank You!
    Thank you! It is with deepest thanks that the Wisconsin Historical Society recognizes individuals and organizations who contributed $5,000 or more cumulatively between April 1, 2022, and March 31, 2023, including pledges and gifts of membership. Anon
    Wisconsin Magazine of History7 min read
    Sand And Fire
    A tiny remnant of the millions of barrens acres that once covered the region, the Namekagon Barrens Wildlife Area lies in the heart of Wisconsin’s Northwest Sands, a band of pine and oak barrens stretching across northern Wisconsin from Bayfield to t
    Wisconsin Magazine of History23 min read
    The Cherryland Problem
    In the late summer of 1948, truckloads of Black workers from Louisiana and Mississippi made their way home south from Door County, Wisconsin. The men and women had been recruited with promises of a bountiful harvest and a lucrative temporary work opp
    Wisconsin Magazine of History2 min read
    Wisconsin Magazine of History
    Director, Wisconsin Historical Society Press Kate Thompson Executive Editor Sara E. Phillips Editors Carrie Kilman, Elizabeth Wyckoff Image Researcher John H. Nondorf Research and Editorial Assistants Kaitlyn Hein, Ruth Thomas Design Huston Design Pr
    Wisconsin Magazine of History5 min read
    Tommy BARTLETT’S WATER SKI SHOW
    The name Tommy Bartlett is synonymous with Wisconsin Dells, water skiing, and family entertainment. Each summer for sixty-seven years, the Tommy Bartlett Show on Lake Delton thrilled visitors three times daily with a ninety-minute production consisti

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