History

This year, the Wisconsin State Historical Society in partnership with local community ambassadors is creating 12 historical markers to highlight Wisconsin history that has often gone unrecognized.

A new book shares the story of how researcher Karl Paul Link discovered Warfarin in a UW-Madison lab.

Tan Pham acts as a cultural ambassador, leading tour groups to experience the food and culture of Vietnam firsthand through his company, Cuisine Adventure Tours.

A new report from the American Lung Association finds Sheboygan ranked among the top 25 worst cities in the nation for ozone pollution in recent years, and air quality worsened in the Milwaukee metropolitan area.

The U.S Army Reserve says the suspension of a commander at Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy isn’t tied to an investigation of pictures of President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth being tampered with.

After more than two decades of planning, construction is underway for a $160.5 million Wisconsin History Center in downtown Madison.

The garrison commander of Wisconsin’s only federally operated army base has been suspended, according to a statement from the U.S. Army Reserve Command. The suspension comes after a post surfaced on social media showing that pictures of President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were not displayed on a base leadership board.

Recent visa terminations are discouraging international students at Wisconsin colleges from participating pro-Palestinian organizing, students said. 

Wisconsin saw a record number of fires in January and February this year due to a lack of snow as climate change has set the stage for more wildfires to burn in the last decade.

There are many contradictory myths about Northwoods lumberjacks and the work they did in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were depicted as hard-living, violent men, but also as upstanding, conservation-minded gentlemen.