January 2008 Highlights
Celebrate Winter at the Museum on the Square
How does a snowflake form? Have you ever seen authentic hand-carved ice fishing decoys or played the historic game of "snow snake?" Want to see the film history of the Birkebeiner? You can discover and participate in all this and...
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Posted January 28, 2008
Old World Wisconsin Announces New Workshops
If you have ever thought you would like to learn a "new" skill that many a 19th-century Wisconsin pioneer learned more than a century ago, Old World Wisconsin's winter/spring workshops may have just what you're looking for. The workshops are...
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Posted January 25, 2008
Images of the Underground Go Online
In 1974 the Wisconsin Historical Society Press published an edition called Undergrounds: A Union List of Alternative Periodicals in Libraries of the United States and Canada in a press run of about 750 copies. The work of a graduate student,...
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Posted January 23, 2008
Historic Preservation and Archaeology Month
The Wisconsin Historical Society encourages communities throughout Wisconsin to begin planning now for events and activities to celebrate Historic Preservation and Archaeology Month this coming May. During this monthlong celebration many local and regional events are planned to promote historic...
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Posted January 18, 2008
The Other Packers-Giants Game at Lambeau Field
As Green Bay Packers fans prepare to cheer on their beloved Pack in Sunday's NFC Championship game against the New York Giants, it is fitting to reminisce about the only other championship game between the two teams on the near-sacred...
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Posted January 15, 2008
Howard's End: Read It & See It
The film adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1910 novel about two sisters who, unwittingly, ruin the life of a young man they meant to befriend, will be the third and final film in the current Classic Book & Movie Club series....
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Posted January 14, 2008
Private Soldiers — Now a Traveling Exhibit
The Wisconsin Historical Museum proudly presents an exhibit version of the Wisconsin Historical Society Press book, Private Soldiers: A Year in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard Unit. The exhibit showcases photographs and text provided by three members of the...
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Posted January 11, 2008
Remembering Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus
Former Wisconsin Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus, whose omnipresent red vest became an icon of Wisconsin politics, is being remembered today and on Wednesday, January 9, with a memorial at the state Capitol that includes his gubernatorial portrait, now part of...
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Posted January 8, 2008
New Exhibit Offers Window to the Fur Trade Era
In 1986 the Wisconsin Historical Museum opened People of the Woodlands to the public. This second-floor exhibit explores the rich history and diversity of Native Nations in Wisconsin. In one of its many efforts to update the exhibit, the museum...
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Posted January 7, 2008
The Year in Review — 2007
A Message from Ellsworth Brown, The Ruth and Hartley Barker Director of the Wisconsin Historical Society I would like to share with you the major events, programs, exhibits and activities of 2007 and of which we are particularly proud. Leading...
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Posted January 4, 2008
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