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Baughman book traces the birth, growing pains of network TV

March 29, 2007

What television viewers saw in the 1950s seemed benign enough: Lucy Ricardo planning hijinks with pal Ethel Mertz, a freckled Howdy Doody, and the vaudeville antics of Uncle Miltie. Read More

Exhibit traces 300 years of Wisconsin and Great Lakes maps

March 21, 2007

Original maps of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region from 17th-century drawings concocted from travelers' accounts to 21st-century images captured by satellites are on display through June 29 in the Department of Special Collections in Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More

CALS to celebrate National Landmark Status of old dairy barn

March 5, 2007

The public is invited to a program on March 28, 2007 at 7:15 p.m. to celebrate the designation of the UW–Madison’s 109-year-old dairy barn as a National Historic Landmark. Read More