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| Temperance, Abolition and Utopian Communities |
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| Discovery how early Americans founded the abolition and temperance movements to help increase morality |
| A New Vision for the United States |
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| Discover how a few key political issues in the 1850s gave birth to the Republican Party |
| A Good Mother, a Good Friend and a Good Woman |
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| Discover Juliet Severance, the free-thinking Whitewater physician who was involved with the anti-slavery movement, temperance and women's rights. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Giant knife presented to John Fox Potter by Missouri Republicans after his challenge to duel with a Virginia congressman, 1860. (Museum object #1957.112) |
| Housing and Racism |
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| Discover the history of the struggle for Civil Rights in Wisconsin |
| The History of the Movement |
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| Discover how Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette, the Wisconsin Republican Party and the Progressive Movement reformed state and national government. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Victorian scrapbook fan made by Julia Morris of Madison, decorated with suggestions about courtship, love and marriage, 1895-1899. (Museum object #1955.480 |
| How a Senator From Wisconsin Created the Red Scare |
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| Discover how a senator from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy created the climate of fear known as the "Red Scare." |
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