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Name: Wisconsin: A Laboratory of Democracy with author Jonathan Kasparek
Start: 2024-08-21
End: 2024-08-21
Location: Milwaukee Public Library

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

12:30pm

Free & open to public

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Milwaukee Public Library

3501 West Oklahoma Avenue

Milwaukee, WI 53215

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About the Event

The Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau offers an exciting opportunity for our historians, curators and authors to visit your community and share the stories of our great state.

In the early 20th century, all eyes were on Wisconsin as reformers strove to make state government work better. Jonathan Kasparek sorts out populists, stalwarts, and socialists as he explores how progressive legislation reinvented democracy and laid the ground work for national reform.

Jonathan Kasparek, author of Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate and Fighting Son: A Biography of Philip F. La Follette and co-author of Wisconsin History Highlights: Delving into the Past and Voices & Votes: How Democracy Works in Wisconsin, served as a researcher and editor for the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Max Kade Institute and the Wisconsin State Capitol Historic Structure Report project. He received his master's degree and Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Wisconsin and teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha.