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. |
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. |
Brief biography of University of Wisconsin chemistry and natural history professor, Ezra Slocum Carr. |
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Brief biography of University of Wisconsin chemistry and natural history professor, Ezra Slocum Carr. |
Poet and Temperance Advocate |
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Biography of Wisconsin poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. |
Wisconsin Civil War Officer, U.S. Congressman |
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Brief biography of Civil War veteran and three term U.S. Congressman best remembered for disobeying orders to return fugitive slaves to their owners. |
Civil War Philanthropist, Wisconsin First Lady, Nurse, and Teacher |
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A brief biography of Wisconsin’s Florence Nightingale, Cordelia Harvey who was a strong voice for innovatring Civil War Military hospitals. |
Brief biography of newspaperman and eventual Governor (1891-1895) |
Wisconsin's first Methodist Missionary |
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Biography of Methodist clergyman, lawyer, politician and author Alfred Brunson |
Lumberman, Resort Operator and Humorist |
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Biography of Eugene Shepard, whose "Hodag" monster hoax made Oneida County a tourist attraction. |
Presbyterian Missionary |
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Biography of Presbyterian clergyman Cutting Marsh, who worked as a missionary with the Stockbridge Indians. |
Suffragist, Social Worker and Reformer |
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Biography of suffragist, social worker and reformer Ada Lois James. |
Brief biography of Helen Farnsworth Mears, the sculptress whose nine-foot statue, "Genius of Wisconsin," now stands in the WI state capitol. |
Professor, Geologist and University President |
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Biography of Charles Richard Van Hise, professor, geologist and president of the University of Wisconsin. |
Interpreter |
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Biography of interpreter Benjamin Green Armstrong who helped reverse the Indian removal order of 1849. |
Land Speculator and Politician |
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Brief biography of surveyor, land speculator, railroad promoter and politician Byron Kilbourn, twice elected mayor of Milwaukee. |
Suffragist and Lecturer |
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Biography of Jessie Annette Jack Hooper, prominent suffragist in Wisconsin civic reform groups and women's organizations. |
Newspaperman, Politician and Inventor |
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Biography of newspaperman, a politician and typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes. |
Lawyer and Senator |
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Biography of lawyer and U.S. Senator Matthew Hale Carpenter. |
Artist and Author |
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Biography of author and artist George Catlin, who painted Indians. |
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