Madison, Wisconsin has long been known as a dynamic cultural center and focus of political-intellectual ferment in the middle of America. This collection of essays and interviews traces the rise of an intellectual New Left from 1950 to 1970 as experienced by activists and scholars with ties to the University of Wisconsin.

Acknowledgments Madison: An Introduction --Paul Buhle Part I: Cold War Days 1. The Smoking Room School of History --Warren Susman 2. Learning About History --Herbert G. Gutman 3. WASP and Dissenter --William Preston 4. I Dissent --George Rawick 5. Parentheses: 1952-1956 --Jeffry Kaplow 6. A Madison Bohemian --Nina Serrano 7. A Journalist Among Historians --Richard Schickel Part II: From Old Left to New 8. From Liberal, to Social Democrat, to Marxist: My Political Itinerary Through Madison in the Late 1950s --Bertell Ollman 9. From the Labor Youth League to the Cuban Revolution --Saul Landau 10. Studies on the Left --James Weinstein 11. The Intellectuals and the First New Left --James B. Gilbert 12. New York Meets Oshkosh --Lee Baxandall 13. Another Madison Bohemian --Roz Baxandall 14. Civil Rights and History --Harriet Tanzman 15. A Way of Seeing --Elizabeth Ewen Part III: Conflict and Consciousness 16. In Exile --Evan Stark 17. The Intellectual New Left --Stuart Ewen 18. Memories from the Periphery --Malcolm Sylvers 19. Radicalized History --Peter Wiley 20. Madison and Women's History --Mari Jo Buhle 21. A Madison Communist --Paul Richards 22. Neighborhood Politics --Michael Meeropol and Gerald Markowitz 23. Radical America and Me --Paul Buhle 24. New Left Intellectuals/New Left Politics --George Mosse Part IV: Our Teachers 25. Harvey Goldberg --Ron McCrea and Dave Wagner 26. The Mosse Milieu --Paul Breines 27. The Tragedy of Hans Gerth --Eleanor Hakim 28. My Life in Madison --William A. Williams Appendix A: The Historian's Task --Warren Susman Appendix B: The Boy Scouts in Cuba --Lee Baxandall, Marshall Brickman, Danny Kalb Name Index