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Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 109, number 4, summer 2026
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This issue highlights America250 with stories about the American Revolution through objects in our collections: Lisa Saywell on a soldier’s diary from 1776; Alan Hanson on a Revolutionary War powder horn; and Jesse Gant on symbols of the American Revolution in our Civil War envelope collection. In addition: a memoir of Old World Wisconsin from former curator Kathleen Ernt, celebrating OWW’s fiftieth year; a selection from Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan by Theodore Karamanski (University of Michigan Press, 2026); and an excerpt from WHSP book A Keg of Our Best by Robin Shepherd.
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