Carl Reinemann

Author, Researcher, and Historian

Carl Reinemann is a public historian, writer, and host of One Shot at History, a podcast digging into the forgotten corners of American history — the stories that lived briefly in newspaper columns, courthouse records, and community memory, and then quietly disappeared.

Carl researches and interprets history through archival newspapers, photographs, government records, and fieldwork, with a particular interest in the people and places that didn’t make the history books but shaped their communities just as surely as those who did. He writes and publishes under the Historical Horicon Wisconsin platform including many articles in the Dodge County Pionier newspaper, and has written extensively on the Horicon Marsh — tracing its history from Indigenous use through industrial transformation and modern conservation.

He also serves as a boat captain with Horicon Marsh Tours, where he turns each trip into a living history experience, connecting visitors with the layered human story behind one of Wisconsin’s most remarkable landscapes.

Before turning to public history, Carl spent 25 years in law enforcement — from park ranger to chief of police. He lives in Horicon, Wisconsin, with his wife Pamela.

One Shot at History — because the past only happens once.