Women's History Month 2018
Events, Information, Books and more for Celebrating Wisconsin Women's History
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Black Kander
Learn more about her story and see original documents in the links below.
View the original source document: WHI 38113
Susan S. Frackelton
Learn more about her story and see original documents in the links below.
View the original source document: WHI 8857
Judge Vel Phillips
Learn more about her story and see original documents in the links below.
View the original source document: WHI 28115
Ada Deer
Learn more about her story and see original documents in the links below.
View the original source document: WHI 115579
Dickey Chapelle
Learn more about her story and see original documents in the links below.
View the original source document: WHI 11541
Mathilde Franziska Anneke
Learn more about her story and see original documents in the links below.
View the original source document: WHI 47585
Learn about Wisconsin's Women's History
An overview of Wisconsin women's history with links to original documents. The best starting place for exploring women's lives across centuries of Wisconsin history.
Stories and facts about dozens of Wisconsin women who made history in a collaboration by the Wisconsin Historical Society, the University of Wisconsin, and other cultural organizations.
Photographs of Wisconsin women. More than 13,000 images of women from all time periods, in all walks of life. Use the search box to filter to specific people, places, or events.
Manuscripts by and about Wisconsin women. More than 100 collections of original documents totalling nearly 3,000 pages that document women from 19th-century suffragists to Sen. Tammy Baldwin.
Museum objects related to Wisconsin women. More than 300 articles of clothing, domestic goods, quilts, dolls, ceramics, textiles, and other artifacts in the Wisconsin Historical Museum created or used by women. Use the search box to locate objects specifically about women.
Rare books and manuscripts about the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1846 to 1919. Key documents and images about the most widely studied era in Wisconsin women's history.
Articles about women in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1918-2017. Dozens of illustrated articles on Wisconsin women through the centuries.
Books by and about Wisconsin women from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Somos Latinas: Voices of Wisconsin Latina Activists by Eloisa Gomez and Andrea-Teresa Arenas
How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted by Madeline Uraneck
Dickey Chapelle Under Fire: Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action by John Garofolo
Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail by Melanie Radzicki McManus
Ship Captain's Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes by Ann Lewis
My Life with the Green & Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting by Jessie Garcia
A Milwaukee Woman's Life on the Left: The Autobiography of Meta Berger
Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium edited by Genevieve G. McBride
Voices of the Wisconsin Past: Women Remember the War, 1941-1945 edited by Michael E. Stevens
Wisconsin Women in the War between the States (facsimile reprint of 1911 edition) by Ethel Alice Hurn
The Bingo Queens of Oneida: How Two Moms Started Tribal Gaming in Wisconsin by Mike Hoeft
Life in a Northern Town: Cooking, Eating, and Other Adventures along Lake Superior by Mary Dougherty
Penny Loafers & Bobby Pins: Tales and Tips from Growing Up in the '50s and '60s by Susan Sanvidge, Diane Sanvidge Seckar, Jean Sanvidge Wouters, and Julie Sanvidge Florence
For Younger Readers:
Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood by Diane Holliday
Electa Quinney: Stockbridge Teacher by Karyn Saemann
Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers by Susan Tupper
Juliette Kinzie: Frontier Storyteller by Kathe Crowley Conn
Joyce Westerman: Baseball Hero by Bob Kann
Events
Wisconsin's Nazi Fighter. Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 12:15-1 pm, at the Wisconsin Historical Museum (Madison).
Trends in American Quilting. Saturday, March 10, 2018, 1-2 pm, at Wade House (Greenbush, WI).
Tea With Cordelia Harvey. Sunday, March 18, 2018, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, at Old World Wisconsin (Eagle, WI).
Re-examining the American Pioneer Spirit Through the Extended Family of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 12:15-1 pm, at the Wisconsin Historical Museum (Madison).
From Bonnets to Hats, 1830-1930. Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 10-11am, at the Onalaska Public Library (Onalaska, WI).