The 1854 rescue of Joshua Glover from a Milwaukee jail ignited the city’s direct confrontation with federal pro-slavery mandates. Led by Sherman Booth, an outspoken abolitionist newspaper editor, ...
Sixty-four ship calls and 20,000 passengers are projected for 2026, returning lake-borne tourism to a city that once depended on wooden schooners before rail and highways pulled travelers ashore.
Corporate greed and Republican policy orchestrated the greatest transfer of wealth in modern history under the guise of exporting democracy to China. For decades, Western elites aggressively promoted ...
Psychologists and Zen monks say household chores can calm the mind during the spring cleaning season
Amid spring cleaning season, it can be tempting to dismiss housework as drudgery, so dreaded or anxiety-inducing that it’s best delegated to others if at all possible. But experts from Zen monks to ...
Every oil crisis in the modern era has produced a counter-reaction larger than itself. The Arab embargo of 1973 did not just ...
Neither side really wants to hear what I say,” says Frazer, a professor of history and political studies at The Master’s ...
A new poll out in May, as AAPI Heritage Month began, from AAPI Data and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs ...
On his very first time hosting “The Late Show” back in 2015, Stephen Colbert ripped into Donald Trump while gorging on Oreos, likening his inability to resist the cookies to his inability to resist ...
The 1854 rescue of Joshua Glover from a Milwaukee jail ignited the city’s direct confrontation with federal pro-slavery mandates. Led by Sherman Booth, an outspoken abolitionist newspaper editor, ...
“The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.” – Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976 The stock market is falling, in part a reaction to GOP threats ...
Park East Corridor: The freeway teardown that helped put Milwaukee on the national stage this summer
When it comes to in-city freeways, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The Park East Freeway planners in Milwaukee during the 1960s were probably well-intended, but the price was ...
During the Depression-ravaged days of the 1930s, Wisconsin’s German-Americans faced a vicious campaign of harassment. One Milwaukee businessman received an anonymous postcard with a picture of an ...
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