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| Brief explanation of the importance of the manuscripts of Lyman Copeland Draper. |
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| View original documents, lesson plans, classroom activities and background essays on key events in Wisconsin history. |
| Discover the history of Arthur Davidson and Bill Harley, the boys who built the world's most famous motorcycle company |
| Historian, Activist and Author |
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| Discover the history of historian, activist and author Mildred Fish-Harnack. |
| The Man who Made a New Life for Himself |
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| Discover the history of Joshua Glover, who escaped slavery and made a new life for himself. |
| The Wisconsin Angel |
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| Discover the history of Cordelia Harvey, the "Wisconsin Angel." |
| Discover the history of Belle Case La Follete, women's suffrage activist and wife of Bob La Follette. |
| Discover the history of ecologist and University of Wisconsin professor Aldo Leopold |
| Discover the history of Doctor Kate Pelham Newcomb, founder of the Million Penny Parade. |
| Discover the story of Vel Phillips, the first African American woman to become a judge in Wisconsin. |
| America's First Kindergarten Teacher |
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| Discover the history of Margethe Schurz, who created the United States' first kindergarten. |
| A Companion Piece to "The Misunderstood Mission of Jean Nicolet" by Patrick J. Jung |
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| Educational companion piece for grades 3-5 myth-busting the story of Jean Nicolet |
| Teaching the Holocaust with survivors' oral histories |
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| Teach civics in your 4th or 5th grade classroom with "Voices and Votes" from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press |
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| Teaching about the Wisconsin migrant farmworker movement |
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| Supplemental teaching materials for 'Native People of Wisconsin' |
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| Interactive whiteboard resources designed for use with Patty Loew's "Native People of Wisconsin" for the 4th grade classroom. |
| Bring the museum experience to your classroom! |
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| Onsite object based education units for grade bands K-2 and 3-5 |
| Governor and Progressive |
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| Discover how Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette and the Progressive Movement reformed state government and the Republican Party. |
| Read the history of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, a unique a community developed by formerly enslaved African American slaves in the mid-19th century. |
| Survivors of the Peshtigo Fire |
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| Learn about two settlers, a white man and Indian woman, who survived the Peshtigo Fire. |
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