Author: Anna Miller

Based in Milwaukee, America’s Black Holocaust Museum is an online platform that exhibits African American history and the long shadow of slavery today in the hope of fostering understanding and sparking change. Founded in Milwaukee in 1984 by Dr. James Cameron, America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) survives today in a unique, virtual museum experience. With more than 2,800 exhibits, the museum presents African American history and the impact of slavery over the past one hundred and fifty years. After the physical location for the Milwaukee headquarters closed in 2008, ABHM built a virtual museum in 2012. The site is...

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do, you are misinformed.” – Samuel Langhorne Clemens Celebrated humorist and author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known popularly by his pen name Mark Twain, was skeptical of newspapers and the media in general. Ironically when he visited Milwaukee in 1885, Clemens was interviewed by the Milwaukee newspaper Evening Wisconsin. The resulting article participated in the exact behaviors he criticized. Clemens believed that the press had too much freedom and held too much power over the minds of the people, to the point where the press could effortlessly destroy reputations....

Former teacher Anna Lardinois leads ghost tours in order to introduce tourists and locals to the Milwaukee’s haunted and eventful past. On the first truly cold night of October, Anna Lardinois stood in Cathedral Square on the corner of Wells and Jackson, welcoming locals and tourists alike for her Gothic Milwaukee Walking Ghost Tour. Dressed in 1800s garb and modern cotton mittens to protect against the chill, Lardinois began the mile and half ghost tour that weaves through busy Milwaukee streets. The tours stop by well-known Milwaukee haunts like the Pfister Hotel. A local legend holds that the hotel’s...

The My Milwaukee exhibit, hosted by the Milwaukee County Historical Society, displayed works of art created with an educational focus on history. Each piece featured a local student’s visions of their place in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee County Historical Society featured over 100 pieces of student art centered around student depictions of Milwaukee, created during the third week of September. The exhibit, My Milwaukee, was developed in partnership with UW-Milwaukee ArtsEco, an arts education professional development program, involving teachers and students from six Milwaukee schools. Each student from kindergarten to eighth grade had a unique interpretation of the theme. Projects...