Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives
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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 Felice Scaduto Bryant, a Milwaukee native who, with her husband Boudleaux Bryant, became the first independent songwriters in Nashville; the story of African American miners, many enslaved in a territory where slavery was outlawed, and the enduring legacy they left in Wisconsin; Belle La Follette's decades' long fight for women's suffrage, from the resounding defeat in 1912 to Wisconsin becoming the first state to approve the 19th amendment in 1919; A photo essay marking the hundred-year anniversary of the Treaty of Versaille. Images from the Eduard Frankl World War I photograph collection taken during the war on the Eastern, Blakan, and Middle Eastern fronts depicting civilians, refugees, and the destruction of war in these key regions; an excerpt from the new book "Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate.
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.
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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