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Camp Randall

Date: 1861
Description: Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been...
Photograph

Moseley's Bookstore Display Window

Date: 08 17 1930
Description: Moseley's Bookstore display window advertising the book and the movie "All Quiet On The Western Front." The movie was being shown at the RKO Capitol Theatr...
Poster

"The War Machine Goes On"

Date: 01 26 1971
Description: A poster advertising a protest against the Vietnam war. A collection of political and military leaders gather in a make-shift indoor set. A crowd gathers a...
Photograph

Naval Reservists

Date: 09 08 1950
Description: Naval reservists line up for roll call while awaiting their train to Chicago on their way to Korea.
Photograph

Crowd at University of Wisconsin Teach-in

Date: 04 01 1965
Description: A crowd of over 1000 students attend a 10-hour teach-in against the war in Vietnam. The teach-in was conducted by 25 faculty members in the University of W...
Historical Essay

Auschwitz Concentration Camp Sweater

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Concentration camp sweater worn by Tadeusz Kowalczyk while a prisoner at Auschwitz during World War II. (Museum object #1985.92)
Historical Essay

Sterling Hall Bombing Engine Fragment

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Engine fragment from the van used in the Sterling Hall bombing, 1970. (Museum object #1994.8)
Historical Essay

Cordelia Harvey Persuades President Lincoln to Establish Northern Hospitals

A Wisconsin Civil War Story
Learn how Cordelia Harvey established a hospital in Madison to help Civil War soldiers
Historical Essay

Wisconsin Women - About the Image Gallery

View the collection of images of Wisconsin women in a variety of activities: farm work, canning, suffragism, photography, war work and civil rights.
Article

Richard Carlton Haney

Speakers Bureau
Richard Haney is a WHS Press author and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Col. Frank A. Haskell

Date: 1895-05-29
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

U. W. man's valor won country's honor medal

Date: 1931-01-11
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Mark grave of Oregon revolutionary solider

Date: 1924-11-02
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Captain Hogbin, Madison veteran, has enjoyed a story-book career

Date: 1926-01-03
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Memorial Day

Date: 1875-05-29
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

[Wisconsin preserves survivors' stories of battle that turned Revolutionary War ]

Date: 1930-07-16
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Madison and University throngs honor heroes of war

Date: 1927-05-31
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

George Rogers Clark, the western hero of the Revolution

Date: 1898-07-22
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

General haan's name was hahn, says madison man, relative of army leader

Date: 1924-11-03
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Heroic life ended

Date: 1900-03-18
County: Dane
City: Madison

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