This was a major project for the 25th anniversary of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. My historical retrospective was the anchor piece in the commemorative issue.
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"Nineteen Sixty-Eight was a monumental year. The Vietnam War took an especially bloody turn with the North Vietnamese launching of the Tet Offensive. On the streets of Chicago, police clashed with protesters outside the Democratic National Convention to shouts of “the world is watching.”

Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered on the balcony of a Memphis motel, sparking race riots in more than 100 cities. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was felled by an assassin’s bullet in the kitchen of the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel.
Richard M. Nixon was elected the 37th president of the United States. The Big Mac was added to McDonald’s menu. In the Heat of the Night won an Academy Award. The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia. The Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl II.

And on a quiet, gently rolling parcel of farmland in Kenosha County, a university was born."

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