Research, Citation, & Class Guides: National History Day: Wisconsin History

Wisconsin History

Wisconsin Historical Society Collections

The Society's world-class collections contain an extraordinary range of artifacts and information about American history, from the remote archaeological past to current events.

Wisconsin History Digital Collections

Recollection Wisconsin
"This website provides Wisconsin residents and audiences worldwide with free access to a growing set of historical resources from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across the state."
State of Wisconsin Collection
Writings and multimedia about the state of Wisconsin and its history and development. Primary and secondary publications, both published and archival.

Turning Points in Wisconsin History
Learn about the most important historic events in Wisconsin through hundreds of eyewitness accounts, pictures, archaeological sites, rare books, museum objects, early engravings, handwritten manuscripts, essays, lesson plans and reference tools. From early native peoples, geography, Indian Mounds, Aztalan, and Iroquois Wars through response to 20th-century change, Turning Points in Wisconsin History covers more than 12,000 years of Wisconsin History.

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
The UWDC includes digital collections from University of Wisconsin libraries on a wide variety of subject areas.

Wisconsin Historical Images - Civil Rights
More than 200 images related to civil rights. To search for images on other historical topics, go to the site's home page (http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/), click Search Images on the left, and either search by Keyword, or click the Browse Subject Categories link.
Wisconsin in the Civil War
(Wisconsin Historical Society). This website provides access to diaries, regimental histories and memoirs, soldiers' letters, newspaper articles, and more than 1,000 photographs, maps and other images, all related to Wisconsin in the Civil War.
Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles
(Wisconsin Historical Society). This site contains images of 16,000 articles from Wisconsin local newspapers, and a small number from other states, "preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society in the late 19th and 20th centuries." Most articles were published between 1860 and 1940.

Wisconsin Pioneer Experience
A digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches, and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century.