Madison History Roundtable
Announcing the
2024 - 2025 Schedule for the
Madison History Roundtable
We welcome you to the 2024- 2025 season of the Madison History Roundtable. We have an exciting slate of speakers for this year. The season will start on Monday, September 9th with David Maraniss, who will be speaking on his 2004 book, “They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967.”
We will continue the discussion throughout the year covering a variety of topics
of American, Wisconsin and regional history. The complete schedule of speakers is listed at the end of this page.
The Madison History Roundtable meetings are held the second Thursday of the month starting at 7:00pm at the Hop Haus Fitchburg. Social hour starts at 6:00pm, followed by an optional meal at 6:15. The meal is ordered off the menu. In consideration to the Hop Haus, reservations are kindly requested for the number of meals by contacting one of the following by Wednesday before the meeting; email madison.history.roundtable@gmail.com, or by calling Rich Fronek at 608-669-0970. Leave your name and the number of meals. DO NOT REPLY TO THE EMAIL MEETING NOTICE TO MAKE RESERVATIONS.
We will be posting a recording of the presentations to the MHRT YouTube channel for those that cannot attend in person.
For those on the MHRT email list, you will receive an email notification of upcoming meetings. Share the meeting information with family and friends. Membership is not required to attend the monthly meeting and presentation.
Madison History Roundtable 2024 - 2025 Schedule
September 9, 2024 (Monday)
David Maraniss
American Journalist and Author
They Marched into Sunlight
War and Peace - Vietnam and America - October 1967
October 10, 2024
David Mollenhoff
Author and Historian
Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace:
The Enduring Power of a Civic Vision
November 14, 2024
Christopher Kolakowski
Director, Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Battle for Okinawa - Overview
December 9, 2024 (Monday)
Peggy Prilamen
Retired Teacher and Author
The Farm on Badger Creek: Memories of a Midwest Girlhood
January 9, 2025
Don Mahoney
President of the Milwaukee-Madison chapter of the Morse Telegraph Club
History of Telegraphy with working Display
February 13, 2025
TBA
March 13, 2025
TBA
April 10, 2025
TBA
May 8, 2025
Richard Fronek
Madison History Roundtable President
Andrew Jackson Bovee and the Battle of the Wilderness
Meeting Notices
2024 - 2025
2024 - 2025 Schedule
September 9, 2024
September 2024 Presentation
October 10, 2024
October 2024 Presentation
November 14, 2024
December 9, 2024
2023 - 2024
September 14, 2023
September Presentation
October 12, 2023
October Presentation
November 9, 2023
November Presentation
December 14, 2023
January 11 2024
January Presentation
February 8, 2024
February Presentation
March 21, 2024
March Presentation
April 11, 2024
April Presentation
May 9, 2024
May Presentation