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Historic Forest Home Cemetery celebrates 175 years as Milwaukee’s beloved and enduring Silent City
Jul 6, 2025
Beneath the sweeping canopy of century-old trees and towering monuments, Forest Home Cemetery...
Aly Miller: Playfully navigating the relationship between place and identity with illustrative maps
Mar 3, 2023
In parallel with the uniqueness of an individual’s identity are the maps each of us formulates of...
Microsoft’s purchase of 240 acres in Kenosha is expected to launch a new era of tech-driven growth
Jan 28, 2025
The state of Wisconsin and city of Kenosha announced on January 27 that Microsoft had purchased...
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Wallace in Wisconsin: The 1964 campaign that tested America’s soul over the politics of identity
Jul 5, 2025
In April 1964, Alabama Governor George Wallace entered the Wisconsin Democratic presidential...
Accountability for chaos: A movement built on cruelty faces a reckoning as regret finds no sympathy
Jul 15, 2025
Donald Trump’s appeal once seemed unstoppable in certain circles, fueled by a mantra of...
Why “owning the libs” is the last refuge of a failed ideology that cannot defend its policies on merit
Jul 15, 2025
“I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a...
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DEI programs are being rolled back even as research shows they substantially increase corporate profits
Jul 13, 2025
By Rodney Coates, Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University Few issues in...
Revere’s ride: Remembering the night 250 years ago when lanterns lit the Revolution at Old North Church
Jun 16, 2025
On April 18, Heather Cox Richardson was invited to speak at the anniversary of the lighting of the...
A digital addiction: How social media amplifies fear and rage like a psychological version of heroin
Jun 27, 2025
A fascinating article in “The New York Times” by Kurt Gray, professor of psychology...
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Milwaukee veterans inspired by visit to Hero Street as a national model of Latino military remembrance
by Lee Matz
A group of Latino veterans and community leaders from Milwaukee made a solemn and inspirational visit on June 28 to "Hero Street, U.S.A." in Silvis, Illinois, a one-and-a-half block neighborhood known for the many Hispanic residents who served in the U.S. military during World War II and the Korean War.