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August 28, 2008

 
Upcoming Events

Civil War Experience
Aug 30 - Aug 31 :: Old World Wisconsin will showcase the Civil War home front in 1864, a tumultuous time in our nation's...

Villa Louis Carriage Classic
Sep 6 - Sep 7 :: In one of the Midwest's largest and most stylish equine festivals, magnificent horses, elegantly restored...

Nancy C. Unger at Fighting Bob Fest 2008
Sep 6 :: Author Nancy C. Unger will appear at Fighting Bob Fest 2008 in Baraboo, WI to discuss her book "Fighting...

Ongoing
Events
That's the Ticket! A Parade of Presidential Elections
Chris Farley Remembered
Museum Collections Online
Nearly 4,000 artifacts from the Wisconsin Historical Museum have now been pictured and described on our Web site. Check out paintings, dolls, quilts, moccasins, samplers, and children's clothing through the link above. And don't forget the Wis. Decorative Arts Database, showing 200 objects of all sorts from local historical societies around the state,

New Pictures Online
Every day we add more historical images to our online collection, Wisconsin Historical Images. Not just Wisconsin, but the whole country. Not only candid snapshots, but work by major photographers. And not only photographs, but also posters, engravings, lithographs, maps and more. See the last 30 days' worth of additions by clicking above.

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Political Conventions, 1860-style
We're deluged at the moment by media coverage of the major parties' national conventions, rituals that possess a rich and colorful heritage. For an example, let's go back almost a century and half to the convention that first nominated Abraham Lincoln – a meeting that featured political chicanery we don't usually associate with "Honest Abe." Lincoln was a dark horse....

The latest issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Wisconsin Magazine of History
The Summer 2008 issue features articles on the history of the original Paul Bunyan tales, the photography of Dr. Edward A. Bass, and observations on the illustrated log book from 1903 that documents the canoeing adventure of four young friends on the Wisconsin, Mississippi, Rock, and Yahara Rivers.
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