Summer/Fall 2023
Back in the USSR: The UW-Green Bay Phoenix in the Soviet Union
by Aaron A. Mitchell
An Interview with Aaron A. Mitchell
by Cora Terletzky
Portraits: Father Daems: Green Bay’s Extraordinary Missionary
by Cletus Delvaux
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From the Classroom: Student Research on Childhood and Youth History
Introduction
by Lisa Rose Lamson and Debra Anderson
“Live to Learn and Learn to Live”: St. Nicholas Magazine and the Creation of a Global Youth Community
by Sabrina Sodermark
“We Sang Hativikva and the Meeting Was Adjourned”: The Politics of Mid-Twentieth Century Jewish Children in Milwaukee
by Sydney Grady
“Intensely Idealistic and Rebellious”: Wisconsin Schools and the Ideal Teenage Citizen in the 1960s and 1970s
by Jou Lee Yang
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The Origins of Death’s Door: A Provocative Conversation
by Brennan Christianson
Winter/Spring 2023
From the Collections: Joseph Lister Hospital Car
by S. Benjamin Wideman
The Benedict Family: Colonists, Pioneers, Trappers
by Janet (Ihrig-Fuhs) Eiler
“Don’t Let an Old Soldier Go the Poor House”: Establishing the Wisconsin Veterans’ Home at Waupaca, 1887 to 1894
by Steven T. Sheehan
Sheboygan’s Forgotten Zoo
by Dustin Hoffmann
Ku Klux Klan Recruiting Methods in the Fox Cities
by Michael D. Jacobs
Yump, Ole, Yump! A Celebration of Nordic Skiing, 1890s to 1910s
by Ryan Rodgers
Portraits: Stuart Stebbings: The Cheese Whiz Who Reinvented Cigarettes
by Mat Hoffman
Summer/Fall 2022
Landmarks: Marinette Interstate Bridge
by Mike Kaufman
Engaging with Natural Place: The Influence of Hunter-Conservationist Ethics on the Public Natural Areas of Northeast Wisconsin
by Nathan Knutson
The Gardner Church Controversy
by Frank Spoto
Summers on the Island: The Photo Albums of Lucy Rumsey Holt
by Martha M. Frey
“Under a Cloudless Sky I Forgot the Past”: The World War II Diaries of Frances Louise Otis, Part Two
by Jaimee Popp
The Flowering of LGBT Northeast Wisconsin
by R. Richard Wagner
Our Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories of Northeastern Wisconsin: An Interview with Deb Anderson, Kim Reilly, and Hunter McGowan
by Baylee Nelis
Winter/Spring 2022
“Among the Heaviest Capitalists”: Appleton’s Unsung Paper Barons of the Gilded Age
by George M. Schroeder
Ghosts of the Past: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival
by Pao Lor
An Interview with Pao Lor
by Zachary Borns
“A School Built on Love Can Never Die”: Syble Hopp and the Movement for Students with Special Needs
by Jessica Huguet and Tanner St. John
The Ashes of Williamsonville
by Christoper N. Barney
Restoring the Door County Granary: An Interview with the Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Foundation
by Eric J. Morgan
“I Hope Never to Be Nearer Hell”: The Wartime Diary of Frances Louise Otis, Part One
by Madeline Cichocki
Washington Island and Its Icelandic Roots
by Jou Lee Yang
Summer/Fall 2021
Frances Schroeder and the 1907 Columbia Disaster
by Robert P. Fay
Dancing on the Pike: A Reminiscence
by Rudy Senarighi
Close Connections: From Pearl Harbor to the Twenty-First Century
by Heidi Satori
Relief to Wisconsin Sufferers: The Public Response to the Peshtigo Fire
by Jessica Huguet and Tanner St. John
“Alive with Excitement”: The Festive “Ouisconsing” 1825 Council and Treaty of Prairie du Chien and Eva Emery Dye’s The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark
by Franklin E. Court
V for Victory: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Comes to Northeast Wisconsin
by Jeff Ash
A Good Funeral: Thoughts and Observations on Death, Life, and Communal Mourning in the Oneida Nation
by Madeline Cichocki
Lombardi 1, Baseball 0: The Minor Leagues Leave Green Bay
by Kurt Blumenau
Hearthstone: American’s Electrical National Treasure
by Robin and Joan Rolfs
Historical Markers of Manitowoc County
by Tehya Miller
Winter/Spring 2021
Parkaeology: Five Year of Public Archaeology in Brown County Parks
by Kevin M. Cullen
A Jug from the Jennibel: The Door County Maritime Museum’s Shipwrecks of Door County
by Rhys Kuzdas
COMBAT on the Homefront: The Cold War Decency Crusade Strikes Green Bay
by Evan R. Ash
The Drink That Made Wisconsin Famous: An Interview with Doug Hoverson, Beer Historian
by Eric J. Morgan
Berlin Brewing Company
by Doug Hoverson
“That Glorious Wisconsin Wilderness”: John Muir Memorial Park: A Photo Essay
by Sunshine Tourtillott
Acting Jam in World War II: Gay Wisconsinites and the Second World War
by R. Richard Wagner
Back to the ‘Bourg: A Man Discovers Wisconsin’s Luxembourgish Heritage—And His Own
by Richard Ratay
Church of the Holy Apostles
by Cletus Delvaux
A Cowboy in Packer Country: Vincent Lyle Wheeler
by Thomas L. Schuller
Summer/fall 2020
Restoring the Green Bay Metro Fire Department Historical Archives
by David Siegel
Conflicted Publisher: John M. Lavine and the Menominee Warrior Society Occupation of the Alexian Brothers’ Novitiate
by Robert J. Gough
Novitiate Falls
by Eliot Treichel
Remarkable Women: Piecing Together the Contributions of Native and Métis Women in the Nineteenth Century Fox River Valley
by Stephanie May de Montigny
Nature Streaming into Us: Walking with John Muir
by Robert Root
Humanities+: A Digital and Public Outreach Project
by Rachel Scray
If Tombstones Could Talk: Brown County Historical Society Cemetery Walks
by Myrna Dickinson
The Holyland: Wisconsin’s Catholic Community
by Lawrence H. Balleine
Winter/Spring 2020
Women of the Plywood: The World War II Years
by Virginia Feld Johnson
The Last Yegg of Pulaski: Eddie Bentz and the Robbery of the Pulaski-Chase Co-Op
by Steve Frozena
Finding Francois Froncée: The Quest for an Elusive Ancestor
by Frank Spoto
Fuel for Northeast Wisconsin’s Iron Smelting Industry: A History of Charcoal Kilns
by Thomas J. Straka and Lawrence A. Gueller
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work
by Jerry Apps
The Martin Family and the Making of Wisconsin: Brown County Historical Society and the Hazelwood Historic House Museum
by Anastasia Olp
Truly Doing History: Reflections on National History Day
by Jason Krings and Erin Patchak
Lillian Thomas Fox
by Victoria B. Tashjian
Summer/fall 2019
Black on the Wisconsin Frontier: An Interview with Christy Clark-Pujara
by David J. Voelker
African American Pioneers in Antebellum Wisconsin
by Anna-Lisa Cox
Byrd Parker: An African American Abolitionist in Oshkosh
by Victoria B. Tashjian
James Wildie Sanders and Antislavery in Fond du Lac County
by Paul E. Reckner
The People’s Brewing Company: African American Entrepreneurship in the Civil Rights Era
by John Harry
Racial Protest in Northeast Wisconsin: Remembering UW Oshkosh’s “Black Thursday” Fifty Years Later
by Stephen E. Kercher
UW–Oshkosh’s Black Thursday: A Photo Essay
by Joshua Ranger
Delay of Game: Experiences of African American Football Players in Titletown
by Lisa Kain
One Man’s Vision, My Responsibility: Brown County Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration
by Jolanda Sallmann, Tohoro (Francis) Akakpo, Gaurav Bansal, Mussie Teclezion, and Mai Lo Lee
Winter/Spring 2019
The First Season of the Green Bay Packers
by Brent Hensel
Civil Rights in Titletown: Green Bay’s Open Housing Ordinance of 1968
by Greg Lutz, Jon Shelton, and Joseph Taylor
Wisconsin Central’s First Depot: Neenah and Menasha Fight Over Doty Island Location
by Larry E. Easton
“Tiny” Hable, the Oshkosh Giant
by Pete Ehrmann
Summer/Fall 2018
Reenacting the Great Green Bay Fire of 1880
by Doug Higgins and Emily Wolf
Looking Back, Charging Forward: The Oshkosh Northwestern at 150 Years
by Jordan Tilkens
The Battle Against Saloons in Marinette
by Carl Krog
Commercial Farming in Northeast Wisconsin
by Jerry Apps
Lyle Lahey: Cartoonist of Green Bay and Beyond
by Alison Kathryn Staudinger
They Razed My Main Street Home
by Phyllis Zatlin
Winter/Spring 2018
Taking Health Care to the People of Neenah During the Progressive Era
by Steven T. Sheehan and Jane Lang
Beyond the Pines: The Socioeconomic Development of Oconto, 1850-1950
by Amy Fels
Washington Island Stavkirke
by Natalya Jensen
Fort La Baye: A Primitive Fort in an Unpredictable Era
by Timothy Brumm
Lizzie Anderson and the Rise of Tourism in Ephraim
by Emily Irwin
From Berggren’s to Super Walmart: The Evolving Food Retail Landscape in Marinette, Wisconsin
by Daniel Kallgren
2017 National History Day
by Danielle Tackett
Father Leo A. Ricklin: Patron of the Arts in Green Bay
by Doug Higgins and Emily Wolf
The Brussels House
by Tony La Luzerne