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Seven Decades Now Online
More than 24,000 pages of the Wisconsin Magazine of History have now been published online. Thanks to generous support from the Schoenleber Foundation of Milwaukee, much of the best research and scholarship on Wisconsin history can now be used for free — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Nearly 1,500 feature articles from volumes 1-68 (1917-1985) have been read, abstracted and cataloged by Society staff. They are located through a powerful search interface that quickly delivers essays on hundreds of people, places and events. Readers can also retrieve nearly every word or phrase on any page through a text search.
What can you find in the online archives at the moment? Detailed examinations of virtually all aspects of Wisconsin history, in articles such as these:
Not all the articles are about Wisconsin. In previous decades, the Magazine's editors ran many stories about national and even international events such as a Wisconsin man's account of Russia on the eve of the 1917 revolution, H.V. Kaltenborn's 1932 Interview with Hitler, and photographer Edward Steichen's essay, "Photography: Witness and Recorder of Humanity" delivered at the 1957 annual meeting,
More than 3,800 pictures and 1,000 editorials, book reviews and informal columns about Society activities are also available. For example, one can search for donors of museum objects, read a contemporary account of the 1954-56 renovation of the Society headquarters or investigate the genesis of the Society's historic sites program.
In short, there's something for everyone among the 1,500 articles now available in the Web version of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Visit the new online edition of the Magazine, enter the name of your town, family, county, favorite historical figure or event, and see what turns up.
More articles will appear each week throughout the summer, as staff continue to abstract, index and mount the issues published over the last 20 years.
:: Posted May 7, 2007
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