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Madison in the Sixties – In Memoriam, part 2 –  business leaders Madison native Thomas E. Brittingham Jr., son of the great lumberman/philanthropist, and a  founding trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, suffers a fatal heart attack at age sixty- one while driving near his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on April 16, 1960. A member of the campus Ku Klux Klan interfraternity in the early 1920s, Brittingham became president of the Research Foundation in 1955 and oversaw its successful investment strategy. Two leading businessmen take their own lives in 1961— one due to fail...

World War I is becoming one of America’s forgotten wars. Ask the average American about it and many would not know what you are talking about. A few more knowledgeable people may recall General “Black Jack” Pershing, its overall U.S. commander or President Woodrow Wilson. But few outside of West Point or the Pentagon would recognize the name of General Peyton C. March. Yet this Easton-born soldier, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1921, was largely responsible for designing the powerful role of the Chief of Staff in the U.S. Army of today.

army to retreat to vicksburg and held the location under siege until the confederates surrendered on july 4th, 1863, ceding control of the mississippi river. this is a little over an hour. >> good reason to be in jackson this time. and that took place 40 miles west of here. this is quite a story, a story even some people around here don't know. is great fun for me. i need to start off talking about people lie always mention. at least some of you have some interest in the civil war for one reason, because many years ago perhaps, you read a book called the killer angels. people not t...

>> what we claim we want in both the presidential candidate and a president. >> the man who did get it, a man called charles evans hughes, all but won the election in 1816. when wilson went to bed election night he thought he was beaten. >> if he had been elected how american history goes in several different directions on suffrage for women, civil rights what is he doing on foreign policy, does he -- germany baited us into war but wilson hughes would have avoided that. he's the one to write novels about. >> charles evans hughes on the supreme court, left the supreme court when he ra...

night, he thought he was beaten. >> if he had been elected how american history goes in several different directions on suffrage for women, civil rights what is he doing on foreign policy, does he -- germany baited us into war but would hughes have avoided that? he's the one you could write novels about. >> charles evans hughes on the supreme court, left the supreme court when he ran for president, and then went back on the supreme court. one of the finest minds on the court. >> a fellow justice called charles evans hughes, the greatest in our great line of chief justices. >> why hug...