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| A Companion Piece to "We Will Always Be Here" by Jenny Kalvaitis and Kristen Whitson |
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| Education materials for grades 6-12 for use with "We Will Always Be Here." |
| Teaching the Holocaust with survivors' oral histories |
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| Education materials for grades 6-12 for use with the book "Modern Jungles" by Pao Lor |
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| Education materials for grades 6-12 for use with the book Modern Jungles |
| Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir |
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| Useful facts about polio and post-polio syndrome |
| from Tools for Teaching the History of Civil Rights in Milwaukee and the Nation (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015) |
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| Bring the museum experience to your classroom! |
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| Onsite object based education units for grade bands K-2 and 3-5 |
| Stonefield - a historic site |
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| Stonefield is a museum of agricultural history and farm and village life in 1900. |
| A Wisconsin Historical Society Menu Sampler |
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| View menus selected from the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| This shirt is from the first nationwide demonstration for gay rights, which was held in Washington, DC on October 14, 1979 |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| This button is an example of queer culture’s use of humor and double meanings. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| This particular flag was carried by a protester at a lecture by Ralph Reed, held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on February 17, 1998. |
| This was one of the earliest known gay union ceremonies in Madison. |
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| Shirts worn by Kenneth Scott and Brian Bigler at their Holy Union ceremony, July 22, 1995 |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object - Feature Story |
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| Ballot Box used in Town of Weston, Clark County, Wisconsin, ca. 1915. |
| Anita Herrera grew up in a family of migrant farm workers and devoted her career to improving education, employment, and living conditions for people of color in Wisconsin. |
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| Ramona Villarreal is a Mexican American activist who has devoted her life to fighting for equality and justice for people with Mexican/Latinx heritage in Wisconsin. |
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| Maria Luisa Morales has worked for justice for Latinx communities in Wisconsin since the 1960s |
| Amesqua, who became Madison’s first woman fire chief in 1996, was only the seventh woman in the country to lead a fire department |
| Directed the UW–Madison’s Chicana and Latina Studies Program, was devoted to justice for working people. |
| Explore photographs of farm life in 20th-century Wisconsin. |
| Explore images from the Hotz collection that depict Door County, Wisconsin at the turn of the 20th century. |
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