Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
| Borrow a traveling exhibit about community life in a Native American village 500 years ago. |
| 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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| Learn about the 1832 conflict between the Sauk and Fox Indians and American troops that ended with the surrender of Black Hawk |
| Use census records to study immigration to Wisconsin and living conditions in the mid-19th century |
| Learn about life on the frontier in Wisconsin in 1851, as recounted in guides designed to attract immigrants to the state from Europe. |
| Learn to use primary source materials to teach students about the abolitionist movement in Wisconsin in the 1850s. |
| Use advertising posters to study technological change in American agriculture in the 19th century |
| La Follette and the Progressive Era |
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| Get curriculum suggestions for teaching about Progressive Era reforms in Wisconsin. |
| Teach students to use census population schedules in researching life in Wisconsin communities. |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| Learn more about the pre-WWI peace movement by having students take a closer look at Julia Grace Wales |
| Teach students to conduct oral history interviews with Wisconsin Hmong and how to use oral histories for research |
| Evaluate documents representing opposing perspectives on Japanese American Internment and work as a class to understand primary source analysis |
| Learning with WHS |
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| Get ready to give your young learners the best Field Trip Memory of the year |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Field Trip |
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| If your school or class working on a project-based lesson or taking part in the National History Day program, this field trip is for you! |
| Villa Louis - a historic site |
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| Encounter the world of Victorian America |
| Wade House - Historic Site |
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| At Wade House historic site, students learn about early Wisconsin transportation, travel and everyday life in a mid-19th century town. |
| Reed School - a historic site |
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| Come experience one of the finest examples of rural education in Wisconsin's history. |
| H.H. Bennett Studio - a historic site |
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| Learn about Henry Hamilton Bennett, "the man who made Wisconsin Dells famous". |
| First Capitol - a historic site |
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| Tour the first capitol of Wisconsin and reimagine Wisconsin as a place of beginnings. |
| Pendarvis - a historic site |
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| Learn about the lives of immigrant Cornish miners in the 1830s and 1840s during the Wisconsin Territory's lead-mining boom. |
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