History

Through this thriving online hub, Wausau natives around the globe remain connected, preserving their history while collectively shaping the city’s evolving narrative. 

Where do people move when they’re displaced by climate-fueled natural disasters? A climate journalist joins WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” to explain what people get wrong about “climate havens.”

A new exhibit from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum features never-before-seen or rare objects on display to highlight the contributions that Wisconsin veterans make after they leave the military.

The stretch between Grand Marais and Whitefish Point, Michigan, is the final resting place of roughly 200 shipwrecks, garnering a reputation as “The Graveyard of the Great Lakes.”

A social media post on the bar’s Facebook page said This Is It! would have celebrated its 57th anniversary this summer. 

Karen Russell’s long-awaited new novel, “The Antidote,” is well worth the wait. She talks about it with WPR’s “BETA.”

The state Senate’s sporting heritage committee is weighing whether to approve, deny or request changes to wolf harvest regulations developed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Robin Washington shares the story of how he learned about his father’s contributions to The Slip Stream – a newspaper for the Casper Army Air Base.

A group of Wisconsin bishops is urging elected officials to reinstate a policy protecting churches from immigration enforcement. They say that “welcoming the stranger” is a core tenet of their faith.

Mahmoud Shayyah was in shock the day the brutal Assad regime fell. Today, his research at UW-Madison studying how war-torn countries can rebuild is ever more important.