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| Brief description of the Dow riots that took place in Madison during the Vietnam war and politicized thousands of previously apathetic students. |
| Brief history of the Alice In Dairyland program, which promotes Wisconsin's dairy industry nationwide. |
| Read a brief description of the Milwaukee 14 when Vietnam War protesters set fire to 10,000 draft files. |
| Brief timeline of Wisconsin history from 1900 to 1999. |
| Brief history of Black Thursday (November 21, 1968). |
| Read about the Home for Women, a reformatory for women aged 18 -31, and the State Prison for Women, which became the Taycheedah Correctional Institution. |
| Read about tornadoes in Wisconsin, including some of the worst to have struck the state. |
| Learn about the Disciples of Christ, who first became active in Wisconsin in the 1830s. |
| Read about the Milwaukee Industrial School reform school, later the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls and Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon |
| Read about the school for juvenile delinquents that was formed in Waukesha, WI. This article contains links to images and official reports. |
| Brief history of the General Motors plant in Janesville. |
| Historian and Educator |
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| Brief biography of George Lachmann Mosse (1918-1999). |
| The Civil Right's Leader Shows his Support |
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| Discover the connection Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King had with the 1960s protests in Milwaukee. |
| Learn about the Gay Purge of 1962 that took place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Learn about the LGBT rights movement in Wisconsin. This article also contains links to other articles about the history of the LGBT movement in WI. |
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