Water Works
"Water Works: An Aquatic History of Milwaukee" is a production of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History and the Milwaukee County Historical Society. In its first season, the show explored the the effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic and the current COVID-19 pandemic on Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In this second season, the show tells the aquatic history of Milwaukee.
Water Works
Millennial Thinking
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Milwaukee County Historical Society
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Season 2
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Episode 2
Last episode on Water Works, we looked at the ways Milwaukee's first peoples articulated their deep admiration for the waters of the area through the effigy mounds they constructed in the time before European contact. This episode, we explore how Wisconsin's native communities sought to conserve and preserve their relationship with water in the era after white settlers began forcibly removing them from their land. The episode was produced by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee public history student Elizabeth Loomer.
For more information about the show, including photographs and documents from the era, check out milwaukeehistory.net/podcast.