Madison in the Sixties – late winter, 1967. Dow 1 – the Skirmish, part two As February turns to March, the campus is still consumed by the aftermath of the […]
Madison, February 1967 – Dow 1: the Skirmish, part one
Madison in the Sixties – February, 1967. Dow 1, the Skirmish – part one A two- day action by Madison Students for a Democratic Society against campus recruiting by the […]
Madison, February 1965
Madison in the Sixties – February, 1965 As the month begins, an attack on the UW student newspaper the Daily Cardinal by a prominent conservative commentator and powerful state senator […]
Madison, September 1968
Madison in the Sixties – life on campus, September 1968. The University of Wisconsin opens a new academic year under its third Chancellor in four years – H. Edwin Young, […]
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January.
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 […]
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 […]