Milwaukee PBS Digital

Milwaukee PBS Digital

Segments from our award-winning broadcast programs, 10thirtysix, Adelante, Black Nouveau and The Arts Page. We will also feature never before heard or seen digital-first segments and specials! Tune in and be informed, entertained and updated about all things Milwaukee!

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June 9, 2025 29 mins

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The Making of Milwaukee: The Next Chapter celebrates the tenth anniversary of the history-making television series. It begins where the series ended. The new segment updates some of what has happened in Milwaukee since 2006. It looks at business, technology, sports, economics, politics, social issues, and of course, its people.

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Chapter 17: Almost Yesterday

Parades, Festivals, Ethnic Pride. New Ethnic Groups. De-industrialization Hammers Milwaukee. The City Reinvented.

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Chapter 16: City Under Siege

New Civic Structures and Urban “Renewal”. Poverty, Prejudice, Housing Discrimination. The Riot of 1967.

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Chapter 15. The Exploding Metropolis

After the War: a Baby Boom, a Housing Boom, an Economic Boom. Socialism Returns to City Hall. Suburbs and Annexations. The Milwaukee Braves.

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Chapter 14: Hard Times and War Time

The Great Depression. The Rise of Labor. Prohibition Ends. World War II Claims a Mayor. Milwaukee’s Industrial Might Goes to War.

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Chapter 13: The Roaring Twenties

America Turns Inward. Manufacturing Soars. African-Americans and Latino Premeros Make Milwaukee Home. Automobiles, Electric Lights, Radios and Movies.

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Chapter 12: The War to End Wars

Making the World Safe for Democracy, 1917. Anti-German Fever in Milwaukee. Socialists under Siege. Prohibition Closes the Breweries.

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Chapter 11: Socialists at Work

“Municipal Enterprise”. Honest Government and Civic Virtue. Creating Milwaukee’s Park System.

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Chapter 10: Trouble in Town

Dirty Air and Water. Dirty Milwaukee Politics. Socialists and Labor Rise Up for Clean Government.

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Chapter 8: Machine Shop of the World

Milwaukee, the Manufacturing Powerhouse. Enterprising Inventors, Mechanics, and Machinists. Workers Seek the Eight Hour Day. Rioting and Bloodshed in 1886.

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Chapter 9: Greater Milwaukee

Architectural Adventures: Mansions, Theaters, Offices, a Million-Dollar City Hall in 1895. Suburbs Rise from South Milwaukee to Whitefish Bay. A “Big Small Town”.

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Chapter 7: City of Immigrants

Ethnic Europe Discovers Milwaukee. A Polish Fishing Village and Milwaukee's Basilica. Irish, Italians, Greeks, Jews & Eastern Europeans Spice the Ethnic Stew.

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Chapter 6: City of Industries

Tanneries, Breweries, Slaughterhouses. Steam Engines, Machine Shops, Iron Rails. Plankinton, Pfister, Pabst, Miller, Allis. Milwaukee Grows Economic Muscle.

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Chapter 5: Neighbors and Strangers

Milwaukee becomes a Melting Pot; Irish, English, African-Americans. Ethnic Tensions, Abolitionist Fervor, and a Tragic Shipwreck. The Civil War.

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Chapter 4: Here Come the Germans

Waves of German Immigrants. Beer, Brats, Gemutlichkeit. Milwaukee, “the German Athens of America”.

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Chapter 3: King Wheat

Wheat Sows the Seeds of a Growing City. Railroads and Brash Byron Kilbourn.

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Chapter 2: New Frontiers

Lake Michigan brings Settlers. Agricultural Plenty. Milwaukee’s Three Founders Struggle for Supremacy. Milwaukee becomes a City, 1846.

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May 15, 2025 36 secs

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The Making of Milwaukee is a five hour, high definition video series that explores the intriguing people who came to live beside Lake Michigan: their politics, their triumphs, and tragedies, their work, and play. From civic saints to scoundrels, industrialists to Socialists, Potawatomi to Hmong, The Making of Milwaukee tells the story of our city.

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Native Americans, Fertile Land, Pristine Waters. French Explorers and Trader Soloman Juneau. Exile of the Potawatomi.

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Shawn Alan Hurd is a guitarist, harmonicist, folk singer songwriter, storyteller. His musical style lend itself to Folk and Americana. Sound inspired by roots folk and blues. His music looks through the lens of a character and the story that unfolds.


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https://www.instagram.com/shawnalanhurd/


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