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Wisconsin’s got a new queen. Alice in Dairyland starts her year-long reign this month, which also happens to be June Dairy Month. All of this got historian Erika Janik thinking about the long history of women and agriculture.
Erika Janik is the co-creator and former executive director of Wisconsin Life. She is the author of six books, including Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction, Apple: A Global History, and Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine. She’s currently the executive...