Special Projects

In this short documentary, Caleb Rose presents Breadsmith Bakery. Founded in Milwaukee, the bakery was created in 1993. The local-started business prides itself on the made-from-scratch quality bakery items that it sells. They keep a lineup of daily breads and pastries and feature different daily specialties each week. The business that started on Milwaukee’s Downer […]

Meet Owen Saiia, he is a UW-Milwaukee student in his second year studying Urban Planning & Studies. Owen works as an assistant golf coach for MPS at Golda Meir High School, he has been a golf coach since his senior year of high school and will become lead coach after the current coach Dave Miller […]

The Brewcity Bruisers are Milwaukee’s premier roller derby league, having operated as an official Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) league since 2006 and playing against teams from around the world since 2007. Take an inside glance at one long-time member’s experience working with BCB as she looks back on the league’s past and forward […]

Natalie Powers is a third-year student at UWM that has been dedicated to orchestra since she was seven years old. The excitement of playing the viola keeps her motivated in every facet of her life, like it’s a reprieve from the noise of everything else (that isn’t a string arrangement, of course). The university’s new […]

More and more students are wondering if higher education is worth the money and time. A new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum found that most of the state’s job openings do not require a college degree, but higher-paying jobs still demand that diploma. UW-Milwaukee student journalists interviewed a diverse range of young people about […]

Troy Reeves, who manages the oral history program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s archives, was manning a table for the 40th history of the Sterling Hall bombing when a man walked up, looking like “he had come right out of the ’60s” or a “Grateful Dead” concert. “He…put his hand on the table and leaned […]

Dominic Rodriguez speaks with David Driscoll, curator of economic history at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.

Dominic Rodriguez speaks with current UW-Madison students about the bombing of Sterling Hall that occurred in 1970.

Lester Pines was between his sophomore and junior years at the University of Wisconsin- Madison in the summer of 1970, when the bombing occurred. Five years later, he was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin. Six years later, David Fine’s family hired him to represent the fugitive in the first part of the federal criminal […]

Paul Soglin, the former mayor of Madison and a prominent antiwar activist, is very familiar with the history, riots and the explosion that took place on the UW-Madison campus in the 1960’s and ’70’s. He said that the first demonstrations against the Vietnam War, in Madison, took place in mid-October of 1963. The civil rights […]

In August of 1970, Joseph McBride was 23 years old, working for the Wisconsin State Journal. He was the youngest male reporter on the staff and therefore designated as the man who would cover the violent opposition towards the Vietnam War on the University of Wisconsin- Madison campus. He was one of the local reporters […]

When Sterling Hall Bomber David Fine was sentenced, he drew a moral equivalency to the end of World War II. “And I would just like to say that all those who join me in mourning the death of Robert Fassnacht in the bombing of army math would also on this day the anniversary of the […]