Letters of Support for the Society From Throughout the Nation, Overseas

Follow these links to view letters to Governor Jim Doyle, Wisconsin legislators, newspaper editors and others pleading for legislative relief from drastic budget cuts facing the Wisconsin Historical Society. Viewing these files requires Acrobat Reader, free from Adobe.

• April 28, 2003  — Edward H. Able, Jr., President and CEO, American Association of Museums(32KB PDF)

• April 17, 2003 — Thomas R. Dunlap, Professor of History, Texas A&M University(35KB PDF)

• April 16, 2003 — Ken Burns, maker of historical documentary films on the Civil War, jazz, baseball, and the Lewis & Clark Expedition, in a letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel(36KB PDF)

• April 14, 2003 — Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison(19KB PDF)

• April 10, 2003 — Michael Les Benedict, Professor of History, Ohio State University (6KB PDF)

• April 10, 2003 — Gerry Kearns, Senior Lecturer, Geography, University of Cambridge(25KB PDF)

• April 10, 2003 —  Peter Nabokov, Chair, Department of World Arts and Cultures, University of California-Los Angeles(33KB PDF)

• April 10, 2003 — Michael Butt, Professor of American History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada(6KB PDF)

• April 9, 2003 —  Arnita Jones, Executive Director of the American Historical Association, and Bill Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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• April 9, 2003 — Edward O. Frantz, Assistant Professor of History, University of Indianapolis(6KB PDF)

• April 9, 2003 — Anna-Lisa Dahlgren, junior student at James Madison Memorial High School, Madison(36KB PDF)

• April 8, 2003 — George Miles, William Robertson Coe Curator, Yale Collection of Western Americana, The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University(73KB PDF)

• April 8, 2003 — Charles L. Cohen, Professor of History and Director, Religious Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison (13KB PDF)

• April 7, 2003 — Letter to Legislature From Coalition of 100,000 Citizens(61KB PDF)

• April 7, 2003 — Ellen Baker, professional historian in New York City and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison(4KB PDF)

• March 31, 2003 — Kathleen R. Jendusa, Executive Director, Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning, Inc.(312KB PDF)

• March 31, 2003 — Robert T. Teske, Executive Director, Milwaukee County Historical Society (36KB PDF)

• March 27, 2003 — Donald E. Thies, Vietnam veteran from Slinger, WI(37KB PDF)

• March 20, 2003 — Joint letter by Mark Bugher, Chair, Governor's Commission on Historic Sites; Wayne McGown, Chair, Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives Study Committee; Mary Buestrin, Chair, Legislative and Government Relations Committee of the Wisconsin Historical Society Board of Curators; and Bud Gussel, President, H. H. Bennett Foundation, Inc. (38KB PDF)