Historic covers from the Wisconsin Magazine of History.

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Find more than 2,000 feature articles totaling over 35,000 pages, exactly as they originally appeared in the Wisconsin Magazine of History.

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This issue features articles on Mary Todd Lincoln's 1867 visit to the Lake Superior region of Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin's Survey Research Laboratory and public opinion in the state, and Milwaukee potter Susan Frackelton.

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This issue features articles on the 19th-century freshwater pearl rush on the Sugar River, photographer Wilmer Schlafer's images of Appleton at the turn of the 20th century, Nathan Myrick and frontier La Crosse, and Chinese Americans and race relations in Milwaukee in the 1880s.

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This issue includes articles on Cordelia Harvey, the fight for rural schools, and the life of knitter Elizabeth Zimmermann.

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This issue includes articles on the CCC in Sauk County, the Milwaukee NAACP, and the 1948 Centennial Fair murals.

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Author Tommy Thompson describes the use of Camp Randall in the spring of 1862 as a prison camp for Confederate soldiers.

This article examines the rise and subsequent treatment of juvenile delinquency in Milwaukee following World War II.

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  • About the Wisconsin Magazine of History
    This award-winning quarterly magazine features articles about Wisconsin culture — the people, places and events of Wisconsin's past — celebrating all that makes Wisconsin special since 1917.
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    Founded in 1855, the Wisconsin Historical Society Press is the state's oldest publisher and produces the finest works on Wisconsin history and culture, including the Wisconsin Magazine of History.
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