Michael Edmonds is the Director of Programs and Outreach at the Wisconsin Historical Society.He the author of two award-winning books from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press: “The Wisconsin Capitol: Stories of a Monument and Its People”, “Out of the Northwoods: The Many Lives of Paul Bunyan” and “Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader.” Between 2006 and 2015, Edmonds wrote more than 500 “Odd Wisconsin” sketches for a syndicated weekly newspaper column, and he co-wrote Warriors, Saints, and Scoundrels: Brief Portraits of Real People Who Shaped Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2017) based on those sketches.He has written articles for the Wisconsin Magazine of History and other journals and has won national awards from the American Folklore Society and the American Association for State and Local History.A 1976 graduate of Harvard University, he earned an MS degree at Simmons College in 1979 and taught part-time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
