Things To Do

Explore Proxmire's political career in the Senator William H. Proxmire Collection

Read original letters, diaries, and memoirs written by Wisconsin soldiers in Wisconsin in the Civil War

View hundreds of historic maps in the Map and Atlas Collection

Listen to interviews with 22 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust in Oral Histories: Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust

View pictures in Wisconsin Historical Images

Find biographical sketches, articles and obituaries, along with Pre-1907 birth, death and marriage records in the Wisconsin Genealogy Index.

Read about early Wisconsin history in Wisconsin Historical Collections

Discover Civil War soldiers in the Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers

Read historic newspaper stories in Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles

Learn about the most important historic events in Wisconsin at Turning Points in Wisconsin History

Answer basic questions in the Dictionary of Wisconsin History

Travel along with famous explorers at American Journeys

Discover the strange and curious in our blog, Odd Wisconsin

Learn about the history of the International Harvester Company and the McCormick family by searching the McCormick-International Harvester Digital Collection

Find information about Wisconsin Corporations

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