April 2009 Highlights
Historic Preservation and Archaeology Month
May is Historic Preservation and Archaeology Month, a time to showcase Wisconsin's diverse and unique heritage. Local historical societies, museums, public libraries and other institutions use this month-long celebration to highlight the important role historic preservation plays in protecting our...
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Posted April 30, 2009
Madison Poster and Propaganda Collection
From the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, Madison, Wisconsin, was a hub of dynamic social, political and cultural change. The onset of countercultural ideologies, the Vietnam War, gay liberation, and women's rights were among the issues that permeated the social...
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Posted April 27, 2009
Get the Flavor of Wisconsin
Twenty-five years after its original publication, The Flavor of Wisconsin is back in a new, revised edition from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Regional food expert Terese Allen has widened the lens to introduce new topics, expand others, and connect...
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Posted April 23, 2009
Holocaust Survivors' Stories Coming Soon
In just a few weeks the Wisconsin Historical Society will publish a website where visitors can read and listen to interviews with 22 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust who settled in Wisconsin. Between 1933 and 1945 more than 17 million...
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Posted April 20, 2009
Earth Day: From Leopold to Nelson
Forty years ago this year, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson first conceived of the idea of a national teach-in to raise public awareness of the rampant environmental problems of the times. One year later, on April 22, 1970, the first Earth...
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Posted April 16, 2009
Take a Deep Breath — Tax Day is Almost Here
There are only two more days until America's tax day, April 15, the dreaded filing date for state and federal income taxes. April 15 wasn't always saddled with this ominous deadline, though we do have Wisconsin to thank for it....
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Posted April 13, 2009
Actor Fred MacMurray's Caine Mutiny Jacket
Fred MacMurray, the actor best known for his role as Steve Douglas in the television series My Three Sons, grew up a small-town boy from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Historical Society is pleased to announce that it has recently...
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Posted April 9, 2009
Spend Opening Day with the Braves
Just in time for Major League Baseball's opening day comes a new baseball book, Milwaukee Braves: Heroes and Heartbreak, from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. During their 13 years in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Braves never endured a losing season, won...
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Posted April 6, 2009
The James P. Danky Fellowship for 2009
In honor of retired Wisconsin Historical Society newspapers and periodicals librarian James P. Danky's long service to print culture scholarship, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, in conjunction with the Society, is again offering its...
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Posted April 2, 2009
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