1963 — The UW Protection and Security Department hires its first female investigator, Nancy Marshall, a former member of the Madison Police Department’s Bureau of Crime Prevention. Campus police chief Albert Hamann says Marshall will handle investigations involving women and juveniles. In 1964, teenage romance turns to trouble, as high school gangs rumble all over […]
Glenn Silber, “The War At Home”
Madison authors, topics, book events, & publishers. Stu Levitan welcomes the award-winning filmmaker and UW alum Glenn Silber for a conversation about The War at Home, the Academy Award-nominated documentary about the antiwar movement in Madison in the 1960s he made with co-producer/co-director Barry Alexander Brown. And proving that everything old can be made new again, […]
The Battle of Dow – Oct. 17-18, 1967
Madison in the sixties – The Battle of Dow, Oct. 17-18, 1967 Because it made the incendiary gel Napalm B for use in Vietnam, the Dow Chemical Company had been a target of the Students for Democratic Society ever since the Michigan SDS launched a protest against the Michigan-based company in August 1966. A two-day […]
