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| Information and resources on the Centennial of the Wisconsin Capitol in 2017 |
| A Traveling Display |
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| Meet some of our LGBTQ+ visionaries, changemakers, and storytellers, get inspired, and share your story. |
| View of list of individuals who received the Wisconsin History Maker Award between 2006 and 2010. |
| In celebration of the Bucks 2021 NBA Finals victory, we break down some of the franchise's biggest moments. |
| Wisconsin History Maker Award |
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| Learn about the co-founder of Manpower, Inc, the world's largest temporary job service company who actively promoted peace in the Middle East. |
| Poetry activities related to Wisconsin Historical Society Press book, "How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century" by Louis V. Clark III |
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| How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century: Poetry Activities for 9th through 12th grade |
| Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir |
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| Useful facts about polio and post-polio syndrome |
| Teaching Materials |
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| Teaching materials for use with the 2nd Edition of Patty Lowe's "Indian Nations of Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 02 14 2008 |
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| Description: | Pair of beaded Potawatomi moccasins. |
| Date: | 02 14 2008 |
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| Description: | Jeannie Pope, wearing red, holding a signed copy of Newsweek, which reads "Holy Huckabee!" and includes an image of Republican Presidential hopeful ... |
| Date: | 02 15 2008 |
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| Description: | John McCain speaking, with an enormous American flag in the background. |
| Date: | 02 18 2008 |
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| Description: | Michelle Obama, wife of politician Barack Obama, greeting Wisconsin State Representative Jennifer Shilling at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Located at 402 South Main Street, Henry E. Kochenderfer's service station, which opened in 1933, proudly dispensed Phillips 66 gasoline from three pumps o... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Built in 1931 by the Iowa Oil Company, Darlington's Service Station at 404 Main Street was said to give the "impression of a temple or a college chapel, an... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Knute Bjornson originally built this house in the 1860's and in 1933, his grandson Cooney Bjornson reassembled the humble log building to house a gas stati... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This service station located at 23923 Burrows Road (formally State Highway 93) was built in 1931, by Leo Breska. It now houses an auto-repair business, own... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | The 400 Cass Street gas station was first constructed in 1928 and later became a Pure Oil station, when it was reopened by Henry Ott, in 1937. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Manufactured by the Milwaukee Corrugating Company, Josiah Paynter's filling station at 110 South Chestnut Street was the first in Mineral Point. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Clarence "Slim" Fritag's Pure Oil service station, located at 1323 Ninth Street, created a sensation in 1935 when the local newspaper announced that "an at... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | The brick building at 340 South Chestnut Street, was built around 1930. It resembled the house-with-canopy-type station commonly constructed throughout the... |
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