Bonus Episode: Paper Valley
Steve talks with David Allen and Susan Campbell about how the book was written and why the 20 year delay.
24 Maj 20247min
The Environmental Success Story of Our Time
During the entire 1990s, the potential removal of PCBs from the Fox River hung in the balance. The book is Paper Valley : The fight for the Fox River Cleanup. Steve talks with the authors David Allen ...
22 Maj 202436min
John Deitz and the Battle of Cameron Dam
It's the early 1900s. While lumber barons and railroad companies exploited Wisconsin resources and citizens; socialists and progressives fought back. One individual who fueled the imagination of the p...
8 Maj 202431min
Epilogue to Leo Burt & the Sterling Hall Bombing
Steve follows up to listener questions and comments from the previous podcast.
10 Apr 202424min
Leo Burt & the Bombing of Sterling Hall
In August 1970 a powerful fertilizer bomb was detonated on the UW Madison Campus. The only perpetrator not apprehended was Leo Burt. Where is he? Steve talks with former federal prosecutor John Vaudre...
20 Mars 202430min
Herbert Hoover and the Mississippi River Flood of 1927
Steve talks about America's biggest and deadliest river flood in history and the resulting impact on U.S. history.
28 Feb 202427min
Project ELF
Steve talks about a former US Navy communication facility in Northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan with Prof. Steven Walton from Michigan Tech University. How the Navy almost turned the entire nor...
7 Feb 202431min
Wisconsin and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: the story of Joshua Glover, Part 2
Steve continues his interview with Margo Kirchner and discusses the response by the Wisconsin legal system to Sherman Booth's role in aiding Joshua Glover.
24 Jan 202425min
