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 […]
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 […]