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Indian Language Manuscripts Guide

Follow links to documents by missionaries, traders, Indian agents, linguists and anthropologists which help preserve more than 20 endangered languages.
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American Indian Language Materials

Follow online links to rare American Indian language primary documents, including early dictionaries, textbooks, spelling books and firsthand accounts.
General Information

Society Honors Centennial of the Wisconsin Capitol

Information and resources on the Centennial of the Wisconsin Capitol in 2017
General Information

We Will Always Be Here: Wisconsin's LGBTQ+ Historymakers

A Traveling Display
Meet some of our LGBTQ+ visionaries, changemakers, and storytellers, get inspired, and share your story.
General Information

Wisconsin Photographers Index 1840-1976

Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976.
Feature Story

Thomas Blake

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Thomas Blake, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Mildred Fish-Harnack

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Mildred Fish-Harnack, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Lou Ringling

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers
Lou Ringling | Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers
Feature Story

Ben Barkin

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Ben Barkin, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Elmer Winter Receives 2006 Samuel C. Johnson Award for Distinction in Corporate Leadership

Wisconsin History Maker Award
Learn about the co-founder of Manpower, Inc, the world's largest temporary job service company who actively promoted peace in the Middle East.
Classroom Material

Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes Discussion Guide

Activities, vocabulary, discussion questions, and extensions for using Sport with your students.
Discussion guide intended for use with Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes.
Classroom Material

Immigration: Packing a Traveler's Trunk

Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson
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Rubie Bond, Oral History, and the African-American Experience in Wisconsin

Examine the oral history and migration experiences of Rubie Bond, an African-American resident of Beloit featured on Wisconsin Public Television
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Chapter 9: Transportation and Industry Change Wisconsin

Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Chapter 9 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
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Chapter 10 - All Activities: Good Times, Hard Times, and Better Times

Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Chapter 10 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Classroom Material

Indian Nations of Wisconsin, 2nd Edition

Teaching Materials
Teaching materials for use with the 2nd Edition of Patty Lowe's "Indian Nations of Wisconsin."
Classroom Material

Native People of Wisconsin Interactive Resource

Supplemental teaching materials for 'Native People of Wisconsin'
Interactive whiteboard resources designed for use with Patty Loew's "Native People of Wisconsin" for the 4th grade classroom.
Photograph

Kids Drinking Milk in School

Date: 1921
Description: Classroom full of school children drinking milk at Washington school.
Photograph

Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
Painting

Marquette and Joliet

Date: 1921
Description: Painted scene of an Indian guide paddling, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary standing, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader paddling in a canoe exploring th...

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