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Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January. 1963  — The UW Protection and Security Department hires its first female investigator, Nancy Marshall, a former member of the Madison Police Department’s Bureau of Crime Prevention. Campus police chief Albert Hamann says Marshall will handle investigations involving women and juveniles. In 1964, teenage romance turns to trouble, as high school gangs rumble all over town. An Edgewood HS girl entices the Verona boy she’s dating and four of his friends into an ambush at Peppermint Park, the carnival area on the far west side, where the...

Why Martin Luther King Didn’t Run for President Mark Engler © Agence France Presse/Getty Early in 1967, America was mired in an escalating war in Vietnam, presided over by President Lyndon B. Johnson. A collection of liberal leaders including anti-war Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin, prominent socialist Norman Thomas and future Congressman Allard Lowenstein were determined to recruit a serious anti-war candidate to challenge Johnson in 1968. They believed they had the perfect prospect: Martin Luther King Jr. More from Rolling Stone By 1967, King had gained stature as t...

Aaron Pearl-Cropp of Springfield admitted the odds of him finding a pennant commemorating the 1963 March on Washington, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech, were "very rare." Pearl-Cropp, 52, a City of Springfield Public Works employee and a collector of civil rights memorabilia, said he had only seen the pennant twice, both times in museum settings, and an auction house he works with told him that it was a piece that rarely came up for sale. But a chance conversation with a worker painting his house last summer eventually led to Pearl-Cropp landing the...

Mary Catherine Bateson dies at 81; anthropologist on the lives of women By Penelope Green New York Times,Updated January 16, 2021, 3:42 p.m. Email to a Friend Mary Catherine Bateson in her yard in Hancock, N.H., on Aug. 12, 2010. Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreaking books on women’s lives — and who as the only child of Margaret Mead had once been one of the most famous babies in America — died on Jan. 2 at 81.Trent Bell/NYT Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreaking books on womenâ€...

Biden Replaces Trump: A Malignant “Normalcy” Is Restored The defeat of Donald Trump came as a deliverance to millions of Americans after four years of political hell. It was greeted by mass spontaneous outbursts of joy and relief. Ridding ourselves of a uniquely malicious and bizarre president is reason to celebrate, but I argue that it is misleading to see the election as a victory of democracy over authoritarianism. Biden’s win is the triumph not of democracy but of an oligarchic status quo, itself an increasingly authoritarian system. And I suggest that the conclusions to be drawn fr...