In This Issue
- Letter from the Editor
- "The Jeffersons of Madison: A Family's Search for Identity" by Sebastian Van Bastelaer
- "A Very Superior Whale: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McDougall's Whalebacks" by Matthew Lawrence Daley
- "Rejoicing Everywhere: Wisconsin Soldiers Return Home from World War I" by Rachel Cordasco
- "All the Rage: The University of Wisconsin Mandolin Club" by John Zimm
- Book Excerpt: "Madison in the Sixties" by Stuart D. Levitan
- Letters
- Curio
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