The year 1893 was a big one for Eagle, Wisconsin. Workers found a huge diamond on the Devereaux farm: sixteen carats, uncut, and now, all these years later, missing.

At the end of the 19th century, a Wisconsin woman named Elizabeth “Lizzie” Black Kander tried to help immigrants assimilate, through the food they ate.

Protectionist laws favoring producers of butter meant that getting margarine in Wisconsin was no easy feat.

A town that once thrived on tourism around its famed natural springs is seeking water from faraway Lake Michigan.

While racism in the United States is often attributed to poor whites, research suggests its political power resides in middle and wealthy suburban whites.

An interview with scholar William P. Jones on labor unions, public employees, and race.