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Update your home with Bright Bazaar and Home Organization.

Bright Bazaar: Embracing Color for Make-You-Smile Style by Will Taylor; Photography by Andrew Boyd Blogger and color enthusiast Will Taylor recently released this guide to embracing color in your home. Filled with crisp photographs and easy instructions, Will gives readers a boost of confidence to explore a colorful new world. Sections include: Color is Your Friend, Color Cocktails, Bringing Color Home, and Resources. Get ready to…

Library Time Capsule on WUWM's Lake Effect

Fifty Years of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

“An act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission…

Patriotic Reads - Happy 4th of July!

  The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw focuses on the generation of Americans who were born in the 1920s, came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era.     The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe The moments of grandeur and weakness, the aspirations, and the problems of America's astronauts are revealed in an exploration of…

Who are the American War Mothers?

For the past three years, Milwaukee Public Library staff members have been digitizing the World War One Military Portraits collection.  With approximately 32,000 items, including portraits, soldier index cards, and miscellaneous items, this is MPL’s largest digital collection to date.  This post will provide some background information about the American War Mothers and how the collection was formed.

A teenaged couple is convicted of murder on Vancouver Island in That Night by Chevy Stevens.

It’s 1996 and Toni Murphy can’t wait to graduate from high school and get out of town. It’s the usual problems, her parents don’t like her boyfriend, Ryan and her little sister, Nicole has started hanging around with the ‘cool’ kids who love to torment Toni. But then Nicole is killed. Toni and Ryan are imprisoned and found guilty of her murder. Whomever killed Nicole has…