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In recent years Wisconsin native Fredric March has been criticized for his participation in a questionable student organization at the University of Wisconsin. But in addition to being a brilliant […]

New oral histories reveal that during the Great Depression, the U.S. government banished thousands of Mexican American women to Mexico, including many who were American citizens.

Britain in the 1840s was wracked by poverty, unrest, and uncertainty. There were attempts to assassinate the queen and her prime minister, and the ruling class lived in fear of […]

Jo Handelsman is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Vilas Research Professor, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. She previously served as a science advisor to President Barack Obama as the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Her lab focuses on understanding the genetic basis for stability of microbial communities, the role of a gut community as a source of opportunistic pathogens, and the soil microbial community as a source of new antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes.

One of the most famous of cold War speeches is JFK’s address to citizens of a divided Berlin on June 26, 1963-a speech epitomizing the divide between the US and its Allies on one side of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union and its buffer states on the other. During the Cold War, several US presidents used rhetoric to project US power and intentions to a world audience. What were their methods?

Accused of fatally stabbing her jailer with an ice pick, Joan Little became the first woman acquitted of murder because of her right to self-defense against sexual assault.