by Craig Brabant, Laura Monahan, Kenneth Cameron, Martha Glowacki, Jody Clowes | Oct 13, 2020 | Videos
In this era of rapid environmental change, the animal, mineral, and plant specimens preserved in natural history collections offer a crucial window into the past. Around the world, natural history curators are digitizing their collections to offer scientists greater...
by Gary Jones | Oct 1, 2020 | Magazine Article
Tourists celebrate Door County’s Washington Island for its majestic scenery and Scandinavian heritage. But Thomas Davis’ new novel, In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams, reveals the island’s lesser known history as an 1850s refuge for runaway African American slaves....
by Brenda Bredahl | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
Greg Vreeland loves trains. “They are big, colorful, and go places, and kids seem to be genetically programmed to love trains,” says the founder and co-owner of the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad, located in Trego, a few miles from Spooner in Washburn County. ...
by John Gurda | Sep 19, 2017 | Videos
Diversity has been one of Milwaukee’s hallmarks since the city’s infancy. A bewildering variety of ethnic communities have emerged there, including Native Americans and French Canadians before the dawn of urban time; Yankees, Germans, Irish, Poles, and Italians in the...
by Jane Elder | Jul 14, 2017 | Magazine Article
When writer and historian James Truslow Adams coined the term “the American Dream” in 1931, the phrase perhaps had more to do with the idealism at the heart of the American experience than simple material prosperity. The American Dream, he wrote in The Epic of...
