Episodes

Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for landing in the history of aviation. Explore the navigation tools used during the years leading up to and shortly after the Great Depression.

Roll into recreation in Wisconsin during the Vietnam War era through Earlene Fuller’s story.

Step right up to see how the circus came to be in Wisconsin and how transportation innovations, business, and social issues were juggled under the big top.

Read between the lines of The Progressive Era and WWI through the printing of amateur newspapers.

Tune into the history of the Great Depression through the story of Paramount Records.

Spark your thinking about life during the Fur Trade Era through the making and use of a wrought iron toaster.

Get a different take on Lincoln’s legacy and the freeing of enslaved people through the Emancipation Group sculpture.

Get your gears turning about life in the modern era through bicycles and bike making in Wisconsin.

Get on the same wavelength as ship captains during the time before Wisconsin was a state with this towering tale of the Pottawatomie Lighthouse.

Travel back to the postwar era through the bunk beds that hold the history of migrant farmworkers in Wisconsin.

Sew your way through the time from territory to statehood with Margaret Miekel’s cross-stitch sampler.

Craft a new understanding of the myths and realities of life in the midwest over 100 years ago with tall tale postcards.

Set your clock to the time of early explorers through the story of the Le Maire Sundial and Compass.

Unpack the New Deal and WWII through this Civilian Conservation Corps member’s trunk.

Dive into learning about First Nations in the area thousands of years ago through the dugout canoes recovered from Lake Mendota.