WISCONSIN
Celebrating People, Place and Past
Reference
These links connect to reference
sites that may be useful to you.
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The
Library of Congress
This site houses an expansive array of historical information, including
primary documents, photographs, and films.
BadgerLink provides access to information resources for Wisconsin residents. Wisconsin schools may access the EBSCO and UMI full text databases via this site.
WISCAT
(Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library)
WISCAT is the statewide bibliographic database for Wisconsin. It contains
5.9 million bibliographic records from 1,137 libraries throughout Wisconsin.
You may borrow items listed in WISCAT through interlibrary loan by making
a printout of the record from this database and taking it to your local
school, academic, or public library.
University of
Wisconsin-Madison Electronic Library
This site provides access to the UW-Madison Library catalog, plus links to other UW System
libraries, Wisconsin public libraries, and other libraries worldwide.
Pioneering
the Upper Midwest
This is a collection of digitized books from the Library of
Congress. The books can be read page by page, or you may search for
text. The books include historical narratives and photographs on education,
pioneer families, and recreation in early Wisconsin.
The
Milwaukee Urban Archives
This site includes several electronic exhibits, as well as a guide to
the collections available from the Archives, which is a repository for
researching the history of Milwaukee-area businesses, civil rights,
environmental campaigns, ethnic groups, families, housing, labor, urban
development, women, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Wisconsin
and U.S. History Resources for Students
This bibliography was prepared by the Wisconsin Historical Society for
the "Weaving a Wisconsin Tapestry" project. Appropriate for
elementary students.
Connecting
to the Classroom
This portal
site is a one-stop resource to connect elementary and secondary teachers
with relevant and useful educational materials on the Wisconsin Historical
Society’s Web site. Its resources include images, documents, publications,
lesson plans, activities, primary source materials, and more. It is
organized by the topics that are specified in the Wisconsin Model Academic
Standards for American History and Wisconsin History.
Wisconsin
Women's History
From the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office, this is a
bibliography
of sources for research on women in Wisconsin.
Notable
Wisconsin Authors
From the Wisconsin Library Association, this site identifies authors
with ties to Wisconsin. It links to
a chronological and an alphabetical
list of award winning and notable Wisconsin authors.
Wisconsin
Bibliographies
Bibliographies of print materials and multimedia about Wisconsin's past
and present is has been compiled by the Polk Library's Educational Media
Collection (EMC) at UW-Oshkosh. The media list includes Web sites, videos,
music, posters, maps, and educational software. The book list includes
nonfiction works organized by category, young adult fiction, textbooks,
reference materials, and magazines.
