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Wisconsin For Kennedy
The following selection comes from Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary That Launched a President and Changed the Course of History, written by B.J. Hollars and released in Spring 2024 from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. In early 1960, preside
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Announcing The Winner Of The 2023 Hesseltine Award
Please join the Wisconsin Magazine of History in congratulating Kim E. Nielsen on receiving the 2023 Hesseltine Award for volume 106. Nielsen’s article, “Ott v. Ott: Family Violence, Divorce, and Women’s Agency in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin,” appea
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Stronger Than Law
On Friday, July 10, 1840, William Maxwell walked into H. J. Morrison’s store at the southeast corner of Main and Second Streets in Platteville, Wisconsin Territory, and purchased a pair of pants and a bar of soap. Maxwell, a Black man, worked as a le

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