Korean diplomat joins Milwaukee’s Korean American community in celebration of 79th Liberation Day
EXPLORING KOREA: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided Peninsula. This special series explores historical sites and cultural traditions from across the Korean Peninsula, building a bridge back to the search for identity in Milwaukee. From the...
Exploring Korea: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided peninsula
EXPLORING KOREA: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided Peninsula. This special series explores historical sites and cultural traditions from across the Korean Peninsula, building a bridge back to the search for identity in Milwaukee. From the...
A pawn of history: How the Great Power struggle to control Korea set the stage for its civil war
EXPLORING KOREA: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided Peninsula. This special series explores historical sites and cultural traditions from across the Korean Peninsula, building a bridge back to the search for identity in Milwaukee. From the...
Names for Korea: The evolution of English words used for its identity from Gojoseon to Daehan Minguk
EXPLORING KOREA: Stories from Milwaukee to the DMZ and across a divided Peninsula. This special series explores historical sites and cultural traditions from across the Korean Peninsula, building a bridge back to the search for identity in Milwaukee. From the...
Milwaukee’s Mansion: Critical restoration needed to save landmark Pabst Home from deterioration
Known as “Milwaukee’s Mansion,” the home of Captain Frederick Pabst is one of the Brew City’s most iconic landmarks. It also faces another pivotal moment in its more than 130-year history. The Pabst, Present, & Future campaign aims to restore and preserve the iconic building for generations to come.
A changed battlefield: Ukraine’s bold gamble on an incursion moves deeper into Russian territory
Ukraine’s stunning incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region was a bold gamble for the country’s military commanders, who committed their limited resources to a risky assault on a nuclear-armed enemy with no assurance of success. After the first...
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield shares message of hope on 12th anniversary of Sikh temple shooting
On the 12th anniversary of a tragic shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield visited the Oak Creek gurdwara to honor the victims and engage with the local Sikh community. Ambassador...
Darryl Morin: Watching Americans come together as Kamala Harris began her Presidential campaign
I stood in the rain waiting for my turn to go through the security check outside of West Allis Central High School on July 23. I was there to see Vice President Kamala Harris at her first campaign event since announcing her candidacy for President of the United...
The strange “insanity trial” of presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt’s would-be assassin in Milwaukee
“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech,...
Silent City Honey: The sweet story of utilizing Forest Home Cemetery’s Arboretum as an apiary
Among its many historical distinctions, Forest Home Cemetery has one of the oldest preserved forests within a metropolitan area that exists in Wisconsin. An unexpected byproduct of the silent city’s lush biodiversity is its ability to produce premium honey, with a little help from Chad Nelson and Barbie Brennan Nelson.
From detective to apiculturist: Why Sherlock Holmes found solace in nature when he retired
Few fictional characters have captured and endured for so long in the public’s imagination as Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant English detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Presumed to have died in the 1893 story “The Final Problem,” Holmes would live on and...
Chinese retailers and Trump allies race to profit from merchandise depicting Butler rally aftermath
Images of the moment have already been splashed across the world’s front pages and papered many corners of the internet, former President Donald Trump with his ear bleeding and his right hand clenched in a fist above the Secret Service agents surrounding him...
