Gettysburg Address: A perspective of Lincoln’s words today by Charles H. Barr
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the best known speeches in American history, at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This essay is part of a series of opinion pieces. Each one is no longer than...
The Boston Declaration: A prophetic appeal to Christians
Faith leaders put on sackcloth and ashes, to dramatize their grief over Christians who make excuses for racial hatred and sexual abuse rather than fighting oppression on November 20. Christian theologians symbolically grieved over the corruption of United States...
Gettysburg Address: A perspective of Lincoln’s words today by Patricia Jursik
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the best known speeches in American history, at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This essay is part of a series of opinion pieces. Each one is no longer than...
Gettysburg Address: A perspective of Lincoln’s words today by Peggy Dooley
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the best known speeches in American history, at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This essay is part of a series of opinion pieces. Each one is no longer than...
Milwaukee Notebook: An 1861 lynching in the Third Ward
On September 7, 1861, a mob overwhelmed police, broke into the Milwaukee city jail, and dragged an African-American prisoner from his cell. The prisoner, Marshal Clark, was beaten and then lynched – his body left hanging from a pile-driving machine on Buffalo Street...
AltHistory book offends AltRight as KKK brings censorship campaign to UW-Milwaukee
The Journalism Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee received a letter from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in protest of a fictional book in early October. The message was written by a representative of a KKK faction in North Carolina....
As Milwaukee suffers from food insecurity, potato chips arrive in holiday flavors
The Pringles Thanksgiving Dinner is a pilot taste test and has only limited availability. Generation-X (GenX) remembers not having parents at home to cook, and the thrill of the pre-microwave TV dinner. Even the overpriced Lunchables were preferred to a smashed...
Infographic: The Selfie Syndrome and social narcissism
“How we see ourselves does not come from who we really are, but rather from how we believe others see us.” – Charles Horton Cooley Remember the pre-iPhone 2000s when “selfies” did not exist? The newly-coined term has become a popular teen obsession that is...
Hidden beer cave from the 1840s still survives today
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin is located in the south central part of the state in Dodge County, and was once home to seven breweries. Unfortunately, four of them lasted less than a year. Of the other three, one lasted sixteen years, another operated for sixty-three years and...
Milwaukee residents encouraged to pick rivers over retail on Black Friday
While shoppers rush to consume more things they do not need during the annual holiday sale ritual, the Milwaukee Riverkeeper is offer an opportunity for members of the community to help conduct research into the quality of the city’s water resources. For Black Friday,...
Milwaukee’s Hmong community to celebrate 42nd annual New Year event
The annual event will be hosted by leaders in the Hmong community and local Hmong non-profit agencies and held on December 2 and 3 at the Wisconsin Exposition Center in West Allis. Four decades ago in December, the first on thousand Hmong refugees arrived in the...
BMO Tower embarks on downtown construction with groundbreaking
Construction of downtown Milwaukee’s newest high-rise office building, the 25-story BMO Tower, formally kicked off on November 16 with a groundbreaking ceremony in front of the BMO Harris Bank parking structure at 770 N. Water Street. The building will be home to BMO...
