Innholdsfortegnelse for Fall 2018 i Wisconsin Magazine of History

Of the many journeys I’ve taken into researching history, genealogy isn’t one of them. And so I was delighted when my aunt, my late father’s sister, gave me a beautifully framed photo of what she called my “Wisconsin family” a month into my tenure as editor. Until then, I’d thought of myself as unrooted, a transplant who’d chosen this soil out of happenstance and then planted myself only after I’d grown to love it. But it turns out that my great-grandmother, Amy Carson Phillips, spent her early years outside the village of Ontario in Vernon County. She’s there in the photograph, with long hair in a checked dress standing next to her father, George. I also learned that my grandmother, Marjorie Reynolds Phillips, was born in Marinette County on a…

On any given autumn Saturday, tens of thousands of men, women, and children pack the bleachers of Camp Randall Stadium to cheer on their favorite team, the Wisconsin Badgers. The massive bowl of concrete and steel, enclosed on the south by the stone walls of the Field House, has been home to the Badger football team for over one hundred years and has hosted a multitude of memorable events, athletic and otherwise. Camp Randall is a place where rivalries are renewed and traditions are sustained, a field rich with history that predates Badger athletics, and a setting made special by the fans and athletes, and the musicians and celebrities, who have entered its gates. Camp Randall in the Civil War In May 1861, Colonel S. Park Coon, newly commissioned to…

In 1849, more than a decade before the start of the Civil War, a Wisconsin election asked voters whether suffrage rights should be extended to people of color. The United States was beginning to show signs of discord as the debate over whether to admit new territories as slave or free states plagued the nation. Despite this tension, the question of black male suffrage was presented to voters on the gubernatorial ballot in Wisconsin’s 1849 election. The votes came back with a 5,265 to 4,075 majority in support of the measure. Unfortunately, the motion was denied on a technicality. The question of black suffrage was one of several items on the ballot that day, and the majority of citizens only voted on certain issues. The State Board of Canvassers determined…

We received a letter from Chomingwen D. Pond, the daughter of Alzonzo Pond, who was the subject of Judith Siers-Poisson’s article on Pond’s 1925 expedition to Algeria, published in the Spring 2018 issue. Dear Editor: I’m delighted to see “A Dash through the Sahara” (Spring 2018). It’s a story worth remembering! Unfortunately, the article has significant errors. Michael Tarabulski, professional archivist, who has “lived with this story since [he] first heard it from Alonzo Pond himself in 1982,” corrects some major ones. Ms. Siers-Poisson uses the Expedition’s leaders to illustrate her thesis that early anthropologists sought evidence to prove that Western Civilization was superior to the “ignorant, backward and uncivilized” “primitive” cultures. Prorok and Reygasse perhaps are such examples, but Pond was of the Boasian school of anthropologists. Boasians sought…

We received a letter from Chomingwen D. Pond, the daughter of Alzonzo Pond, who was the subject of Judith Siers-Poisson’s article on Pond’s 1925 expedition to Algeria, published in the Spring 2018 issue. Dear Editor: I’m delighted to see “A Dash through the Sahara” (Spring 2018). It’s a story worth remembering! Unfortunately, the article has significant errors. Michael Tarabulski, professional archivist, who has “lived with this story since [he] first heard it from Alonzo Pond himself in 1982,” corrects some major ones. Ms. Siers-Poisson uses the Expedition’s leaders to illustrate her thesis that early anthropologists sought evidence to prove that Western Civilization was superior to the “ignorant, backward and uncivilized” “primitive” cultures. Prorok and Reygasse perhaps are such examples, but Pond was of the Boasian school of anthropologists. Boasians sought…

When nineteenth-century Europeans left their homes to live in North America they brought more than clothes, money, and tools to start their new lives. Cultural traditions, language, and a sense of identity came along as well. Maintaining some of their old ways helped ease the transition for these new Americans. Food and drink were of primary importance in bridging the gap when leaving one home for another. Along with heirlooms and memories, these new Americans brought with them their thirst for beer and the knowledge and expertise to make it. Europeans immigrating to Wisconsin in the mid-1800s came from long-established brewing traditions. The peoples of Europe had been brewing beer for centuries. The processes were understood and the necessary ingredients easy to find in agrarian societies. In these early days,…

On any given autumn Saturday, tens of thousands of men, women, and children pack the bleachers of Camp Randall Stadium to cheer on their favorite team, the Wisconsin Badgers. The massive bowl of concrete and steel, enclosed on the south by the stone walls of the Field House, has been home to the Badger football team for over one hundred years and has hosted a multitude of memorable events, athletic and otherwise. Camp Randall is a place where rivalries are renewed and traditions are sustained, a field rich with history that predates Badger athletics, and a setting made special by the fans and athletes, and the musicians and celebrities, who have entered its gates. Camp Randall in the Civil War In May 1861, Colonel S. Park Coon, newly commissioned to…