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Frederick Jackson Turner And The History Of The American West

Perhaps no American historian stirs a more impassioned response than Frederick Jackson Turner. His ideas about the western frontier were both admired and maligned, sparking controversy across decades. He wasn’t the first American to call attention to the frontier, but he was the first to say outright that the frontier explained America.

Portage’s Zona Gale, The First Woman To Win A Pulitzer For Drama

The Pulitzer Prizes turn 100 this year. We’re honoring the occasion with a look at five winners with Wisconsin ties. Writer Zona Gale’s life in Portage inspired her work and won her national acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize for the dramatized version of her novel, Miss Lulu Bett. 

The Wisconsin Idea In A Grandfather’s Life

Education gave Jeff Snowbarger’s farm boy grandfather the world. It also taught him how to navigate through despair. My grandfather was a lean man, frugal, conservative to the bone. Such a penny-pincher was he, that during a visit in his last year of life, he showed me grocery bags of pecans he’d gathered from the Oklahoma City sidewalks surrounding the facility where he lived.