Wisconsin
History Internet Links
Week
1: September 2-3
Read: "The First Careful
Investigation of Wisconsin Mounds is Published in 1838"
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=7
Examine: Images relating to the
Effigy
Mounds
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/
SEARCH: "Effigy"
For further information
(Optional):
Moreau S. Maxwell, "A Change in
the
Interpretation of Wisconsin¹s Prehistory," Wisconsin
Magazine of History 33, n4 (June 1950): 427-443.
Week
2: September 6-10
Read: "Sex, Drinking, and Moral
Corruption on the Wisconsin Frontier in 1702"
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=16
Examine: Images relating to the
Fur Trade
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/
SEARCH: "Fur Trade"
For further information
(Optional):
Rhonda R. Gilman, "The Fur
Trade in
the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1630Ð1850," Wisconsin
Magazine of History 58, n1 (Autumn 1974): 2-18.
Week
3: September 13-17
Read: "Factory System Threatens
British Control of Indians, 1812"
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/whc&CISOPTR=14285&CISOSHOW=13757
Examine: Images relating to War
of 1812
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/
SEARCH: "War of 1812"]
For further information
(Optional):
Reginald Horsman,
"Wisconsin
and
the
War
of
1812," Wisconsin
Magazine of History 46, n1 (Autumn 1962): 3-15.
Week
5: September 27-October 1
For further information
(Optional):
Bayrd Still, "State-Making in
Wisconsin,
1846-1848," Wisconsin Magazine of
History 20n1 (September 1936): 34-59.
Week
6: October 4- 8
Read: "A Wisconsin Soldier
Recounts
the Removal of a Slave¹s Iron Color,"
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1352
Examine: Images relating to
Wisconsin and
the Civil War
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=806
For further information
(Optional):
Theodore C. Blegen, "Colonel Hans
Christian Heg," Wisconsin
Magazine of History 4n2 (December 1920): 141-165.
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wmh&CISOPTR=2080&CISOSHOW=1973&REC=1
Week
7: October 11-15
Read: "Bay View Labor Riot of
1886"
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=9394
Examine: Images relating to
strikes and
lockouts
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=811
For further information
(Optional):
Darryl Holter,
"Labor
Spies
and
Union-Busting
in
Wisconsin, 1890-1940," Wisconsin
Magazine of History 68n4 (Summer 1985): 242-265.
Week
9: October 25-29
Read: "Peril in the Machine"
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=1995&pn=0
Examine: Images relating to
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/
SEARCH: "Robert M. LaFollette,
Sr."
For further information
(Optional):
Vernon Carstensen,
"The
Origin
and
Early
Development
of the Wisconsin Idea," Wisconsin
Magazine of History 39n3 (Spring
1956): 181-188.
Week
10: November 1-5
For further information
(Optional):
Lorin Lee Cary, "The Wisconsin
Loyalty
Legion, 1917-1918," Wisconsin
Magazine of History 53n1 (Autumn 1969): 33-50.
Week
11: November 8-12
Read: Kenosha Men and Women
Recall the
Great Depression
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1068
Examine: Images relating to
Great
Depression
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=831
For further information
(Optional):
John C. Savagian,
"The
Tribal
Reorganization
of
the
Stockbridge-Munsee: Essential Conditions
in the Re-Creation of a Native American Community, 1930-1942," Wisconsin Magazine of History 77n1
(Autumn 1993): 39-62.
Week
13: November 22-26
Read: Victor Berger: The First
Socialist
Elected to Congress
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=789
John Gurda,
"Socialism
before
it
was
a
four-letter word," Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel (11 April 2010),
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/89804422.html.
Examine: Images relating to
Socialism in
Wisconsin
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/
SEARCH: "Socialist"
For further information
(Optional):
Frederick I. Olson, "The
Socialist
Party and the Union in Milwaukee, 1900-1912," Wisconsin
Magazine of History 44n2 (Winter 1961-1962): 110-116.
Week
14: November 29-December 3
Read: Tommy Thompson introduces
the "end
of welfare" ********CLICK OPEN
DOCUMENT IN NEW WINDOW************
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/tp&CISOPTR=49223&CISOSHOW=49207
Read: Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau: Wisconsin Works Review 2005
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lab/reports/05-6highlights.htm
Optional Reading: Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau: Wisconsin Works
Review 2005 (full report)
http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lab/reports/05-6full.pdf
Examine: Images relating to
Tommy Thompson
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/tp&CISOPTR=49223&CISOSHOW=49207
For further information
(Optional):
Richard C. Haney, "Wallace in
Wisconsin: The Presidential Primary of 1964," Wisconsin
Magazine of History 61n4 (Summer 1978): 258-278.