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BROWSE SELECTED ITEMS
Spring 2020
Wisconsin Magazine of History. This issue includes articles on the 1917 meteor that plunged from the sky in the middle during Colby, Wisconsin's July 4th festivities, the investigation of a large moonshine operation in Juneau County during the Prohibition and the murder that resulted from the scandal, the history of the Geneva Lake Water Safety Patrol, and an excerpt from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press book "The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior" by Robert Silbernagel.
Winter 2019
Wisconsin Magazine of History. This issue includes articles on John Muir's experience as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin in Madison; the discovery of glass-plate images from Emmanual Luick, light keeper at the Sand Island Lighthouse; the resettlement of Midwest families to Matanuska Valley, Alaska Territory in 1935, told through the eyes of Milwaukee Journal reporter Arville Schaleben, a short memoir from a 1950s movie usher at the Mikadow Theater in Manitowoc, Wisconsin; and an excerpt from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press book "Job Man: My Life in Professional Wrestling" by Chris Multerer with Larry Widen.
Autumn 2019
Wisconsin Magazine of History. This issue includes articles on a High School Football rivalry that rule Green Bay, the Milton House and the Underground Railroad, the early life of Olivia Monona, Wisconsin's fight for the eight-hour workday, and a an excerpt from the book "We've Been Here All Along: Wisconsin's Early Gay History" by R. Richard Wagner.
Summer 2019
Wisconsin Magazine of History. This issue includes articles on the 1925 rivalry between two high school football teams to become the Fox River Valley Conference champs in Green Bay; the history of Wisconsin's Milton House stagecoach inn and its role in the Underground Railroad; Madison native Olivia Monona's unlikely rise and successful career as an opera singer; National History Day award-winner Anna Pearce's essay on the May 1886 labor strike at Bay View Rolling Mill; and an excerpt from R. Richard Wagner's book "We've Been Here All Along" on Wisconsin's early gay history from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Featured Articles
We have chosen some highlights from the Magazine that are of particular interest.
Exposed! Harley-Davidson's Lost Photographs, 1915-1916
Free Love in Victorian Wisconsin: The Radical Life of Juliet Severance
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