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| Speculating on a Dream |
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| Join cantankerous British geologist George Featherstonehaugh as he travels to Madison in 1837 and finds things not as he expected them to be. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Madison Fire Company No. 2 silk banner, 1857. (Museum object #1951.288) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Madison Style ice boat model built by the Bernard family, c. 1917, rebuilt 1977. (Museum object #1983.292) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Violin and bow played by Madison, Wisconsin pioneer Rosaline Peck, 1830s. (Museum object #1969.304.2,A) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Early hand-carved table made by Levi Havemann, a German immigrant to Madison, c. 1860. (Museum object #1998.21.1) |
| From Under a Tree to Madison's Most Popular Lodge |
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| Discover the story surrounding the planning and construction of the first building erected in Madison. |
| A Plot of Land Becomes a City |
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| Discover how Wisconsin went from a small part of a territory to a capital city. |
| Too Progressive for Wisconsin |
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| Discover why Wisconsin's 1846 was re-written and passed in 1848 |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Baseball card featuring Jose Canseco of the Madison Muskies, published by Larry Fritsch Cards, Inc, Stevens Point, WI, 1983. (Museum object #1984.156.13) |
| Argument and an Unpopular Choice |
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| Discover how Madison became the capitol city during the first Wisconsin territorial convention |
| How the Women of Wisconsin Helped Win the War |
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| Discover how women on the Wisconsin home front helped win the Civil War. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Container for potato chips made by Red Dot Foods, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, c. 1950. (Museum object #2002.384.1A-B) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Escape trunk, restraining devices, and curtain used by magician Ben Bergor of Madison, Wisconsin, 1940s. (Museum objects #1982.159.17,19,21,23,25) |
| The Power of the Pumpkin |
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| Read the story of the first Thanksgiving celebrated in Madison. |
| The Brief Stay of Rutherford B. Hayes |
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| Discover the visits US presidents have paid to Wisconsin |
| Housing and Racism |
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| Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin |
| The First White Men in Madison |
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| The first white residents of Madison were fur traders Wallace Rowan, Olivier Ammel and Michel St. Cyr. |
| How Real Estate Owners Created Wisconsin |
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| Discover how land owners promoted their towns and villages for settlers and created the cities you know today. |
| America's Longest, Most Expensive War |
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| Discover the history of America's longest, most expensive war and the incredible events that happened in Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Vest worn by Charles C.P. Arndt when he was shot on the floor of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, 1842. (Museum object #1963.300) |
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