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Beyond a Shared Vision : Charlotte Partridge, Miriam Frink, and Progressive Art Education in Wisconsin

Pierce, Oli (2025)
Winning a Losing Game: Milwaukee Economic Policy from 1960-1990

Bogan, Sean P. (2025)
“Milwaukee’s Citizens of Polish Descent are Worthy of the Priceless Privilege of American Citizenship:” Milwaukee’s Polonia and the Pursuit of Americanization in the 20th Century

Welch, Leah (2025-11-15)
Empire of Extraction: Frontier Capitalism in Milwaukee

Schmid, Arcadia (2024-11-26)
A Tale of Two Soldiers' Fortune

Quaney, Nicholas (2024)
Fighting Blight with Libraries : Milwaukee’s Midcentury Mayors and the Development of Milwaukee Public Library’s Neighborhood Libraries as a Strategy for Urban Renewal

Rohl, Anne E (2023-12-19)
A Burning Issue: The Consolidation of the North Shore Fire Department, 1991-1995

Golden, Emily W (2001-05-01)
They Were Not Sitting Ducks: Rethinking Black Activism in Housing and Urban Renewal in Late Nineties Milwaukee

Apeku, Bernard (2022-01-01)
History of Early Twentieth Century Child Labor in America

Tamla Rai, Vijaya (2018-12-17)

This paper portrays the lives of children laboring in early twentieth century America with a closer focus on cases from Wisconsin. Child labor permits issued by Ozaukee County court and other literature and reports on child ...
Post World War II Housing Crisis for African-American Communities in the North: Case Study the Inner Core of Milwaukee, 1945 – 1968.

Taher, Mania Tahsina (2017-12-18)
Black-Jewish Tensions and Modern Antisemitism in America

Wieczorek, David Michael (2017-12-18)

This paper explores the theme of antisemitism as it relates to the relationship between Blacks and Jews. It looks at the history of the relationship and how it came to crumble during the 1960s and 1970s.
The Profits of Insanity: The Urbanization and Economic Development of Asylum Poor Farms in Wisconsin, 1890-1920

Penner, Robert W. (2017-12-18)

A primary source research project and term paper on the intersection of poverty and insanity and the exploitation of inane labor at Wisconsin county asylums 1890-1920.
HIST 450: Twitter Reenactment Bibliography, Fall 2022

Seligman, Amanda I; Pachner, Lillian; Jasinski, Hayley; Baumgart, Nicholas (2022-10-01)
Research Bibliography for Students in History 450: A list of primary and secondary sources related to the first official United States weather forecast, issued on November 8, 1870

Langenfeld, Mark E (2020-10-01)

The first official weather forecast in US history was delivered by the efforts of Increase Lapham and his colleagues at Milwaukee on November 8, 1870. At the time, Lapham was in Chicago working for what became the National ...
The Birth of Zero: A Twitter Reenactment Bibliography

Pachner, Lillian; Wehrs, Henry (2021-10-01)