Use census records to study immigration to Wisconsin and living conditions in the mid-19th century |
Learn about life on the frontier in Wisconsin in 1851, as recounted in guides designed to attract immigrants to the state from Europe. |
Learn to use primary source materials to teach students about the abolitionist movement in Wisconsin in the 1850s. |
Use advertising posters to study technological change in American agriculture in the 19th century |
La Follette and the Progressive Era |
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Get curriculum suggestions for teaching about Progressive Era reforms in Wisconsin. |
Teach students to use census population schedules in researching life in Wisconsin communities. |
Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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Learn more about the pre-WWI peace movement by having students take a closer look at Julia Grace Wales |
Teach students to conduct oral history interviews with Wisconsin Hmong and how to use oral histories for research |
Evaluate documents representing opposing perspectives on Japanese American Internment and work as a class to understand primary source analysis |
Learning with WHS |
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Get ready to give your young learners the best Field Trip Memory of the year |
Wisconsin Historical Museum Field Trip |
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If your school or class working on a project-based lesson or taking part in the National History Day program, this field trip is for you! |
Villa Louis - a historic site |
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Encounter the world of Victorian America |
Wade House - Historic Site |
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At Wade House historic site, students learn about early Wisconsin transportation, travel and everyday life in a mid-19th century town. |
Reed School - a historic site |
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Come experience one of the finest examples of rural education in Wisconsin's history. |
H.H. Bennett Studio - a historic site |
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Learn about Henry Hamilton Bennett, "the man who made Wisconsin Dells famous". |
First Capitol - a historic site |
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Tour the first capitol of Wisconsin and reimagine Wisconsin as a place of beginnings. |
Pendarvis - a historic site |
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Learn about the lives of immigrant Cornish miners in the 1830s and 1840s during the Wisconsin Territory's lead-mining boom. |
Stonefield - a historic site |
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Stonefield is a museum of agricultural history and farm and village life in 1900. |
Madeline Island Museum |
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Cross the waters of Lake Superior and experience a cultural encounter at the Madeline Island Museum. |
During its history, Wisconsin has had five capitols. Read a brief chronology and see a timeline. |
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