STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY UNDER THREAT.(EDITORIAL)(JOHN NICHOLS)(Column) From: The Capital Times | Date: March 7, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Capital Newspapers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: John Nichols

When the moving van carted novelist Gore Vidal's papers away from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin last week, we got a powerful reminder that one of Wisconsin's greatest assets is suffering from a serious crisis of direction.

I refer to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin by its proper name, not the "Wisconsin Historical Society" moniker recently adopted as a marketing gimmick by the managers who allowed the Vidal papers to be carted off to Harvard's Houghton Library. The "branding" scheme and the surrender of the Vidal papers were ...

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