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[1] Randall Davidson, 9XM Talking: WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), 16; Dick Golembiewski, Milwaukee Television History: The Analog Years (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2008), 37-38.

[2] Lewis W. Herzog, “The Beginnings of Radio in Milwaukee,” Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society

[4] “REA Inc. Files Bankruptcy,” Lodi News-Sentinel, February 19, 1975,

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[2] “Dancing School Notice,” Milwaukee Sentinel, January 13, 1848, p. 3; “Dancing School,” Milwaukee Sentinel, January 7, 1850, p. 3.

[3] “Exhibition Ball,” Milwaukee Sentinel, March 16, 1850, p. 2.

[1] “Project Profile: Regal Ware Worldwide,” Business Ready WI, accessed April 30, 2016; Tom Held, “Regal Ware Launches E-Commerce Website,” Milwaukee Business Journal, March 30, 2015.

[2] Rick Barrett, “Direct Marketing Firm to Sell Regal Ware in China,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 6, 2014.

[3] “History,” Regal Ware Worldwide, accessed April 27, 2016; “Meet the

[1] Elections of 1856 and 1860, American Presidency Project website, accessed June 11, 2017.

[2] John Buenker, “Cream City Electoral Politics” in Perspectives on Milwaukee’s Past, edited by Margo Anderson and Victor Greene (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009), 18-23.

[3] Buenker, “Cream City Electoral Politics,” 24-26, 31-32.

[4] Buenker, “Cream City Electoral

[1] David Levine, Robert Lowe, Bob Peterson, and Rita Tenorio, eds., Rethinking Schools: An Agenda for Change (New York: The New Press:, 1998), xvii-xix.

[2] “It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…,” Rethinking Schools 20, no. 3 (2006), last accessed February 27, 2015; Bob Peterson, “The Birth of Rethinking Schools,” Rethinking Schools 26, no. 1 (2011), last accessed

[1] Jeff Engel, “Rexnord Exploring Possible Sale,” Milwaukee Business Journal, February 12, 2013, accessed January 28, 2016.

[2] “Rexnord Corporation History,” International Directory of Company Histories, vol. 21 (Chicago, IL: St. James Press, 1998), www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/rexnord-corporationhistory/, accessed January 26, 2016, now available at http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/rexnord-corporation-history/, last accessed August 14, 2017. While the two

[1] Joseph A. Rodriguez, Bootstrap New Urbanism: Design, Race, and Redevelopment in Milwaukee (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014), 7, 63.

[2] Tom Daykin, “RiverWalk Turns 20 and Is Still Growing,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 17, 2011, accessed March 14, 2015.

[3] City of Milwaukee website, “RiverWalk History,” accessed March 14, 2015; Rodriguez, Bootstrap New Urbanism, 63.

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[1] Larry Witzling, George Richard Meadows, and Carol Brill, A Strategy for the Redevelopment of Riverwest (Milwaukee, ESHAC Inc. and the Milwaukee Urban Observatory of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1978), map on cover. Today, some would not include the condominium developments along Commerce Street as part of Riverwest. See Evelyn M. Perry, Live

[1] Ray Noesen, “The Road to Green Bay,” Edgewater Historical Society Scrapbook 10 no. 1 (1999): 1, last accessed September 3, 2017.

[2] Reis J. Behling, “The Watertown Plank Road,” Historical Messenger of the Milwaukee County Historical Society 33 (1954): 10-13.

[3] Jesse J. Gant and Nicholas J. Hoffman, Wheel Fever: How Wisconsin Became

[1] Milton M. Small, “The Biography of Robert Schilling” (Master’s thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1953), 5.

[2] Small, “The Biography of Robert Schilling,” 6, 11.

[3] Small, “The Biography of Robert Schilling,” 68

[4] Small, “The Biography of Robert Schilling,” 100; Schilling initially moved to Oshkosh in 1880 to edit that city’s Greenback paper, but moved to

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[2] Mark Yost, “Bob Uecker Is Still on the Active Roster.” Wall Street Journal, 31 March 2011.

[3] “Brewers to Honor Uecker with Second Statue,” MLB News, January, 22, 2014, last accessed March 10, 2017; Jim Stingl, “When Is a $1 Seat Worth a Lot More? Opening Day.”

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[3] “Three for Cooperstown: Ryan, Brett, Yount Elected to Hall of Fame on First Try,” <

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[2] “League History,” Brew City Bruisers: Milwaukee Rollergirls; Bill Glauber, “Belles of the Brawl.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 15, 2010.

[3] “MRDA Goes International with Its Six New Members,” Men’s Roller Derby Association, last accessed July 11, 2016.

[1] The foregoing history of the Catholic Church in Milwaukee as well as what follows is taken from Steven M. Avella, In the Richness of the Earth: A History of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, 1843-1958 (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2002) and, by the same author, Confidence and Crisis: A History of

[1] Charles King, “Rufus King: Soldier, Editor, and Statesman,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 4, no. 4. (June 1921): 371-373, accessed February 26, 2013.

[2] Perry C. Hill, “Rufus King and the Wisconsin Constitution,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 32, no. 4 (June 1949): 418, 421-424.

[3] John Gurda, Cream City Chronicles (Madison, WI: The State Historical Society

[1] “History,” Briggs & Al’s Run & Walk for Children’s Hospital, Events. http://events.chw.org/site/TR/Events/General?pg=informational&fr_id=1040&type=fr_informational&sid=1031#.UP5gMI79ta8, last accessed 2013.

[2] “2013 Begins With A Stomp!” Events, Milwaukee County Zoo, last accessed 2013.

[3] “FAQs,” Pre Race,

[1] Population figures of Russian birthplace and ancestry and Yiddish mother tongue tabulated from census and American Community Survey samples at Steven Ruggles, Katie Genadek, Ronald Goeken, Josiah Grover, and Matthew Sobek. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: Version 6.0 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2015.

[2] Ruth Traxler, “The Golden Land”: 150 Years of Jewish

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[4] E. H. McKinley, Marching to Glory: The History of the Salvation Army in

[1] George Reimann, Sandlot Baseball in Milwaukee’s South Side (Milwaukee: Robert W. Wiesian, 1968), 5.

[2] Reimann, Sandlot Baseball, passim.

[3] This theme is explored in the various essays collected in The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity, Lawrence A. Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson, ed. (Carbondale