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| Read about thousands of interviews with small-town residents preserving folklore traditions that would otherwise die out. Includes link to interviews. |
| Read the history of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, a unique a community developed by formerly enslaved African American slaves in the mid-19th century. |
| Read about "allotment," which was the Indian policy of the U.S. government from 1887-1934; also called the Dawes Act. |
| Brief entry on Paramount records, based out of Grafton, WI, which produced some of the nation's most important early blues recordings. |
| Brief timeline of Wisconsin history from 1900 to 1999. |
| Read about the Home for Women, a reformatory for women aged 18 -31, and the State Prison for Women, which became the Taycheedah Correctional Institution. |
| Read about tornadoes in Wisconsin, including some of the worst to have struck the state. |
| Learn about the Lithuanians who emigrated to Wisconsin in the early 20th century and again after World War II. |
| Learn about the Disciples of Christ, who first became active in Wisconsin in the 1830s. |
| Learn about the Kreiter Piano Company, which produced pianos in Milwaukee and Marinette between 1880 and 1945. |
| Learn about the Hungarian immigrants who came to Wisconsin from the 19th century through the post-World War II era. |
| Read about the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) , the New Deal program to conserve natural resources |
| Read about the Wisconsin State Prison at Waupun, which opened in 1851 and housed men and women prisoners. |
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