Tag: Paul Soglin
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Madison’s Confederate Memorials
This 1981 memorial at Forest Hill Cemetery was removed August 16, 2017. (Patrick Mack/Wisconsin State Journal) A Timeline of Civil War Memorials United States 1857 In Dred Scott v. Sanford the Supreme Court rules that a slave, or a descendant of slaves, is not an American citizen and has no standing to sue in federal court for…
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Madison, Wisconsin
Collected Quotes This is Madison. —Mayor-for-Life Paul Soglin, July 12, 2013. Actually, every third Mayor since 1973. The Earth as seen from Madison, Wisconsin— Caption on a postcard c. 1977 30 square miles surrounded by reality— Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus in 1978.1 The land area was 77 sq mi by 2010, with an additional 17 sq mi of water.2,3…