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Wisconsin’s seeing more saunas pop up, but heat bathing has been part of Upper Midwest culture for over a century. It’s largely thanks to the Finnish immigrants who settled along Lake Superior.

A bronze statue of an immigrant mother with two children has stood in Milwaukee’s Cathedral Square since 1960. One of our Bubbler Talk listeners wanted to know more.

Along I-94 near American Family Field, a group of cemeteries line the freeway. A "Bubbler Talk" listener wanted to know more about them.

For this episode of Bubbler Talk, we explore the history of immigrants who made Milwaukee a "German Athens."

"Wisconsin's Underground Railroad" is available now on the Milwaukee PBS website and YouTube channel.

This year, Black History Month, which once was known as Negro History Week, marks a century of celebrating Black people’s contributions to the United States.

The blind date cookie has been around for centuries. A Bubbler Talk listener wanted to learn how the sweet's origins are connected to Milwaukee.

What we can take away from looking back at European society’s descent into systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of Jews and others?

Marquette University is technically the third home of the St. Joan of Arc Chapel, which was built in France around 1420.

It’s mostly apartments and offices now, but Milwaukee’s downtown Plankinton Building used to be a grand shopping arcade.