Announcing the 

2024 - 2025 Schedule for the 

Madison History Roundtable

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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.”  

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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.

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The Madison History Roundtable meetings are held during the second week 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.

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We will be posting a recording of the presentations to the MHRT YouTube channel for those that cannot attend in person.

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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

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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

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January 6, 2025 (Monday) 

Don Mahoney

President of the Milwaukee-Madison chapter of the Morse Telegraph Club

History of Telegraphy with working Display

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February 13, 2025

Lieutenant (retired) Cathy Andrews

Retired Naval Nurse and Educator; Edgewood College and UW-Madison

Experiences of a Nurse in the Vietnam War on the USS Sanctuary and the

Honor Flight

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March 13, 2025

Discovery and Research of the Native American Canoes from Lake Mendota

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April 9, 2025 (Wednesday)

Richard Fronek

Madison History Roundtable President

Andrew Jackson Bovee and the Battle of the Wilderness

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May 8, 2025

B J Hollars

UW-Oshkosh Professor and Author

Wisconsin for Kennedy

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