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The Wisconsin Magazine of History, [2] the quarterly magazine given as a benefit of membership in the Wisconsin Historical Society, is also published by the WHS Press and has presented the images and stories of Wisconsin's past since 1917. WHS Press books are available in bookstores and through the Wisconsin Historical Society store. [3]
The Division of Historic Preservation-Public History administers the state's historic preservation program, [4] the state's burial sites preservation program, and the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, which publishes books on Wisconsin and American history and a quarterly magazine, the Wisconsin Magazine of History. The division also provides ...
In 2021, the Wisconsin Historical Society, which administers the program, received a grant from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation to diversify the stories represented by the markers.
Wisconsin has 2,776 places deemed historically significant by the National Register and State Register of Historic Places. Not one acknowledges Latino history in the state.
Wade House Historical Site, also called Old Wade House, is a 240-acre (97 ha) open-air museum in Greenbush, Wisconsin. A Wisconsin historic site, the site is operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The site contains nine major structures, three of which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
A grant from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation will fund up to 12 new historical markers that tell the stories of underrepresented groups of people.
Asaph was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1859. [5] [6] In January 1860, [5] he traveled by snowshoe all the way to Sparta to catch the nearest train to the state capitol in Madison. [4] [7] A famous image of him is a photograph taken during his journey, in which he is wearing his showshoes, along with a pistol tucked into his belt ...
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1982. ISBN 0-8108-1508-7; Danky, James P., Neil Strache, et al. Black Periodicals and Newspapers: A Union List of Holdings in Libraries of the University of Wisconsin and the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 2nd ed. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1979. ISBN 0-87020-178-6