Summer 2020

Wisconsin Magazine of History

The Wisconsin Magazine of History informs and delights readers by collecting, preserving, and sharing the stories of Wisconsin people, culture, and history.

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Letter From The Editor
IN THESE STRANGE WEEKS of preparing this issue amidst a global pandemic, I’ve been pondering this: when does the past become most relevant to the present? Change, whether expected or not, begs comparison; it can elicit a deep desire to understand the
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“Angels In The Commonplace”
“IS THERE A SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN WRITERS?” WROTE Zona Gale. It was 1895, the state’s entry into the Union was not yet half a century old, and Gale was a distinguished but unknown student of English literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Th
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Masthead
Director, Wisconsin Historical Society Press Kate ThompsonEditor Sara E. PhillipsImage Researcher John H. NondorfResearch and Editorial Assistants Rachel Cordasco, Gary Smith, and Elizabeth WyckoffDesign Jinger Schroeder President: Gregory B. Huber,
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Daniel Webster Hoan
THE MARCH 2019 ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE Democratic National Committee that it planned to hold the party’s 2020 national convention in Milwaukee drew a distinct line of criticism from leading Wisconsin Republicans. “No city in America has stronger ties to
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Hmong in Wisconsin
The following excerpt comes from Hmong in Wisconsin, released this spring by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press as the latest addition to the People of Wisconsin series. Here, author Mai Zong Vue shares the story of Sia Vang, one of the first Hmo
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Sid Boyum
FISHING FEVER IS A YEAR-ROUND phenomenon on Wisconsin waters. For serious and amateur anglers alike, the rod-and-reel magic of casting lines into lakes and rivers or dropping lures into ice holes is not simply about the challenge of hooking walleye,
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Curio
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, the roaring twenties ushered in the last great decade of vaudeville entertainment. Beginning in the 1860s, vaudeville took shape from minstrel shows and encompassed a variety of live performance types, including dance, ventrilo
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Letters
When I saw your article on a meteorite strike in Clark Co. I hoped that it would confirm a story my father told of his childhood. Unfortunately, the dates do not match. Sometime between 1928 and 1935, my father and his family were sitting on their fa

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