History

Tamara Thomsen is a maritime archeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society. She and her team are interested in history sunken in the Great Lakes — shipwrecks resting on the bottom, hundreds of feet below the waves.
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Who decided how the letters on keyboards are arranged, and why that particular configuration?
To keep Ojibwemowin flourishing, Keller Paap of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Brooke Ammann of the St. Croix Chippewa teach children at Waadookodaading, an Ojibwe language institute.
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When Geraldine Hines arrived on the UW-Madison campus as a law student, she had to adapt to the Wisconsin climate, the food and its people.
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It's on the flag. It's the mascot of the state's biggest university. And back in 1957, lawmakers put the badger into state law as Wisconsin's official animal. But why?
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In Milwaukee's historic Bronzeville neighborhood, a museum is resurrecting.
Wisconsin fell short from national trends and its closest Midwest neighbors when it came to electing more women to office in 2018. Hayley Sperling of WisContext discusses what contributed to the state's low numbers.
As Gov. Scott Walker ends his eight years as governor of Wisconsin, Here & Now looks back on his time in the governor's mansion, speaking with a business owner and teacher who supported and opposed his policies, respectively.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison campus still has 37 extant effigy and conical linear mounds.
Indigenous languages are endangered in Wisconsin, but efforts to preserve and stabilize them has increased among Native American nations and tribes. Margaret Noodin, director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Eduction at UW-Milwaukee, explains what these efforts look like.