| |
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.
|
 Get news from the Society direct to your inbox. Just enter your email address!
|
Political Conventions, 1860-styleWe'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....
|
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. |
|
See Sense and Sensibility on the Big Screen
