'We belong here': Marquette professor documents 100+ years of Wisconsin's Latino history in new book

When Sergio González visited the Milwaukee County Historical Society for the first time 12 years ago, he expected to spend hours tracing his family's history through boxes and boxes of Wisconsin’s Latino history. After all, the Milwaukee County Historical Society has collected over a million photos and documents since it was established in 1935. Instead, the archivist dropped off just three boxes for González to sort through. “I was crestfallen,” González writes in his new book. “Three boxes: this was all the archivists had preserved on my community?” The book,...