Maritime Archaeologist Dives Into History, Exploring Great Lake Shipwrecks
Tamara Thomsen is a maritime archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society. She and her team are interested in history sunken ...
Play Ball! Milwaukee’s Love Affair With Baseball
Baseball season begins once again this week. It’s a sport with a long history in Milwaukee. Historian John Gurda brings ...
WWI – Hortence Troutman, Nurse
One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. In partnership with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we’re exploring stories of Wisconsin ...
Frozen Assets
It was a crop that required no seeds. No one had to turn over a single furrow of earth or ...
Wisconsin In WWI: Poetry Of War
The Great War inspired famous war poets such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sasson, and Robert Graves. But many soldiers of ...
Keeper Of The Light: A Modern Lighthouse Keeper
Wisconsin has a long history of lighthouses. The duties of their keepers have changed dramatically over the decades but the people ...
Wisconsin in WWI: Goodbye America, Hello… Horses?
One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. In partnership with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we’re exploring stories of Wisconsin ...
Wisconsin in WWI: Horses And Transportation
In early 1917, John Pavlik enlisted in the Wisconsin National Guard. He was just 16 but he felt that American ...
Wisconsin 101: The Sterling Safety Bicycle And Wisconsin’s 1890s Bicycling Craze
Wisconsin went crazy for bicycling in the late 19th century. Hailed as “the most independent, healthful, rapid, and convenient mode of ...
Mattison’s Miniature Circus: A Lifelong Passion For The Big Top
Bill Mattison fell in love with the circus as a kid in the 1930s, watching the circus train pass by ...
WWI Veteran Recalls His Enlistment, Training, and Pranks
One hundred years ago, Wisconsin went to war. In partnership with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we’re exploring stories from Wisconsin ...
The Welcome Oak
Many of us have an affinity for certain trees. For Robert Root, it’s an oak that welcomed him to a ...
A Walk In The Milwaukee Woods
A beautiful spring day can feel like the last day of school when you’re a kid – an unbelievable release ...
In Flanders Fields: WWI Veteran Recalls Poetry Of War
John Pavlik was born in Crystal Falls, Michigan, in 1901. He enlisted on April 3rd, 1917, at the age of ...