{"id":1618,"date":"2016-04-08T21:21:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T21:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2016-04-08T21:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T21:21:24","slug":"2016-zeidler-memorial-lecture-at-central-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"2016 Zeidler Memorial Lecture at Central Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Conservative-counter1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Conservative-counter1.jpg\" alt=\"Conservative-counter1\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Conservative-counter1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Conservative-counter1-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2016 Zeidler Memorial Lecture<br \/>\nConservative Counterrevolution &#8211; Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, April 10th at 3pm in the Centennial Hall of the Central Public Library, 733 N. 8th St.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s, Milwaukee\u2019s labor movement and Socialist mayor seemed to embody a dominant liberal consensus that sought to expand the New Deal. Based on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/75wfg8we9780252039904.html\">new book Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee<\/a>, Dr. Tula Connell will explore how business interests and political conservatives arose to undo that consensus, and how the resulting clash both shaped a city and helped redefine postwar American politics. A book signing sponsored by Boswell Book Company follows the event.<\/p>\n<p>The free program includes an interactive panel discussion featuring:<br \/>\nMike Nichols, president of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute<br \/>\nState Rep. Fred Kessler, colleague and admirer of former Mayor Frank Zeidler<br \/>\nJoanne Williams, moderator, host of MPTV\u2019s Black Nouveau program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 Zeidler Memorial Lecture Conservative Counterrevolution &#8211; Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee Sunday, April 10th at 3pm in the Centennial Hall of the Central Public Library, 733 N. 8th St. In the 1950s, Milwaukee\u2019s labor movement and Socialist mayor seemed to embody a dominant liberal consensus that sought to expand the New Deal. Based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[192,222],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milwaukee-talk","tag-lecture","tag-public-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}