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A Wisconsin Bar on a Minnesota Road

The Wabegon Bar in Superior is firmly in Wisconsin. But you can only get there from Minnesota. Rich Kremer went ...

Catching Up With Miss Hmong Wisconsin

This weekend, Milwaukee’s Hmong community will host a New Year Celebration. Pang Xiong came to Wausau from Thailand with her ...

A History of Midwest Vines

Before California was the center of the American wine universe, the Midwest loomed large. Wisconsin had vineyards and wineries before ...

Wisconsin’s First Bicycle Ambassador

On bike paths, city streets, and even on ice, bicycles seem ubiquitous in Wisconsin. The first bicycling boom hit the ...

Food Will Win The War

When most people think of food rationing, they think of WWII. But Americans were first urged to conserve during the ...

La Follette Against the War

Wisconsin Senator Bob La Follette was one of the leading opponents of U.S. entry into WWI. Historian Nancy Unger tells ...

A Nurse on the Front Lines

Helen Bulovsky was a young Madison nurse who went to France in 1918. Working at evacuation hospitals, she served as ...

Anti-German Hysteria

U.S. entry into WWI in 1917 fueled a wave of anti-German sentiment across Wisconsin and across the nation. The fervor ...

Day of the Dead in Milwaukee

“All Hallows’ Eve,” or Halloween, was originally a religious celebration. The following days, Nov. 1st and 2nd, Día de los Muertos, ...