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BROWSE SELECTED ITEMS
Spring 2019
Wisconsin Magazine of History. This issue includes articles on the story of Eston Hemings Jefferson, youngest son of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, who raised his family in Madison, the role Whaleback ships played as bulk freighters in the Great Lakes, stories of Wisconsin soldiers leaving Europe at the end of World War I and returning home to parades, weddings and other celebrations, the popularity of the mandolin from 1880 through the outbreak of World War I and the story of the UW Mandolin Club, and excerpts from Madison in the Sixties, a new book by Stuart D. Levitan.
Winter 2018
Wisconsin Magazine of History. This issue includes articles on one Wisconsin family's experience registering as German during World War I, the role World War I posters and pamphlets played in American society, the Society of American Indian's 1914 meeting at UW-Madison, the story of Civil War veteran Henry Sink and the dissolution of his African American community at the dawning of the twentieth century, and an excerpt of The Misunderstood Mission of Jean Nicolet: Uncovering the Story of the 1634 Journey.
Autumn 2018
Wisconsin Magazine of History. This issue includes articles on Wausau High School's undefeated 1943 football team, the role German immigrants played in the 1840s to develop Wisconsin brewing, a brief history of Camp Randall for the 100th anniversary of the stadium, an excerpt from the newly released book "Somos Latinas: Voices of Wisconsin Latina Activists" and the story of Sherman M. Booth and Byron Paine, Wisconsin abolitionists who gained national attention for their attack on the Fugitive Slave Act and later fought for black suffrage.
Summer 2018
Wisconsin Magazine of History. This issue includes articles on the Superior Blues minor league baseball team from Superior, Wisconsin; Rufus King, Jr.'s work developing Milwaukee's first public, or "common" school system; the story of Wisconsin artists Max and Ava Fernekes and their role in the development of Mineral Point arts colony; the history of Wisconsin's tanning industry and its impact on the hemlock forests of the North Woods; and an excerpt from Michael Edmonds' new book on the history of birds and people in the heart of America.
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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