News Articles
The Wisconsin Historical Society's Web site has been honored with a pair of "Webbie" awards from the Wisconsin Library Association, one for "Coolest Design" and one for "Best of the Best" out of all the nominees. The awards, the first...
Posted on November 23, 2004
Mead Witter Foundation of Wisconsin Rapids has pledged $100,000 toward what ultimately will become a $2.5 million endowment for the preservation of the Wisconsin Historical Society's world-class North American history library and archival collections. The Wisconsin Historical Foundation will need...
Posted on August 17, 2004
The United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has affirmed an earlier decision by the federal district court in Milwaukee, which held that the state of Wisconsin owns a historic shipwreck lying in state waters. The...
Posted on July 08, 2004
The Wisconsin Historical Society Board of Curators has appointed Ellsworth H. Brown of Pittsburgh as the Society's 13th director, according to an announcement by Society President Patricia A. Boge. Brown, 61, will assume his new duties on July 1. Ellsworth...
Posted on June 11, 2004
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin and State Archivist Peter Gottlieb toured the Society's cramped collections storage facilities in August 2003.A $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities has been awarded to the Wisconsin Historical Foundation, which will use...
Posted on May 27, 2004
The Wisconsin Historical Society has named three authors as recipients of its 2004 Book Awards of Merit for excellent scholarship in documenting and interpreting Wisconsin history. Wisconsin Historical Society President Patricia A. Boge presented the following awards in ceremonies in...
Posted on May 19, 2004
Gary Cooper and Helen Hayesin a scene from Ernest Hemingway'sA Farewell to Arms. The Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research are teaming up with The Capital Times to showcase some of the film archives'...
Posted on March 23, 2004
The Wisconsin Historical Society has just acquired a significant addition to its library and archives collections in the form of the papers of Philleo Nash, a major figure in Wisconsin and national Democratic Party politics and a lifelong anthropologist. The...
Posted on March 10, 2004
Workers position timbers in advance of 6-wheeled trucks, each supporting 65 tonsHistory got a lift Monday, February 23, when the Adam and Mary Smith House on Highway 151 just south of Sun Prairie was relocated to a site in the...
Posted on February 25, 2004
From the rumble of tens of thousands of Harley-Davidson motorcycles all over Wisconsin to the launch of a Web site, American Journeys, which made history of its own by providing worldwide online access to firsthand accounts of American exploration,...
Posted on December 29, 2003
Gov. Jim Doyle signed Assembly Bill 328 on Wednesday, December 3, legislation that provides the Wisconsin Historical Society with greater flexibility to work with private-sector partners to support the educational mission of the Society's statewide network of historic sites. The...
Posted on December 12, 2003
Each summer and fall the 50,000-member-strong Wisconsin Council for Local History demonstrates the passion and dedication its members bring to the task of documenting and preserving their communities' past. In a series of ten regional conventions, local historians from every...
Posted on October 13, 2003
The sights and sounds of history — accented by the aroma of a Victorian breakfast at Villa Louis and the smell of burning gunpowder at Wade House — will abound at Wisconsin's historic sites throughout September and October. As summer...
Posted on October 11, 2003
In Madison, and all across Wisconsin, college and university campuses are returning to life, and soon their new and returning students will begin mining the rich collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society to conduct historical research. The start of the...
Posted on October 10, 2003
Dear Friends of the Society: Recent action by the Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance would significantly reduce the impact of proposed cuts to the Society's budget. That's hopeful news, but the state's budget still has a long way to...
Posted on May 12, 2003
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