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| Discover the history of Father James Groppi, the Catholic priest who led fought for justice in Milwaukee's Inner Core. |
| Discover the story of Vel Phillips, the first African American woman to become a judge in Wisconsin. |
| Milwaukee's Desegregation and Fair Housing Movement |
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| Discover the life and times of activist Juanita Adams |
| from Tools for Teaching the History of Civil Rights in Milwaukee and the Nation (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015) |
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| Learn to use primary source materials to teach students about the abolitionist movement in Wisconsin in the 1850s. |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| Learn more about Victory Berger by examing 1917 editorial selections from his newspaper, Milwaukee Leader |
| Discover the history of Arthur Davidson and Bill Harley, the boys who built the world's most famous motorcycle company |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| Learn more about the pre-WWI peace movement by having students take a closer look at Julia Grace Wales |
| Teach students to use census population schedules in researching life in Wisconsin communities. |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| The newspaper articles, photos, and letters in this section are samples of the rampant anti-German hysteria in Wisconsin during World War I |
| See a list of historical highlights from Wisconsin history |
| Historian, Activist and Author |
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| Discover the history of historian, activist and author Mildred Fish-Harnack. |
| Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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| Chapter 9 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
| Conflict on the Homefront: Wisconsin During World War I |
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| Use WWI posters to learn more about WWI as well as the use of this media in building support for the war |
| Wisconsin and the Civil War |
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| Use the 1862 Civil War Draft Riots to examine differing opinions on the Civil War in Wisconsin |
| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| The Wisconsin Angel |
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| Discover the history of Cordelia Harvey, the "Wisconsin Angel." |
| Using historic and current maps, students will identify change over time in Wisconsin communities in this lesson |
| Learn about life on the frontier in Wisconsin in 1851, as recounted in guides designed to attract immigrants to the state from Europe. |
| 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. |
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