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Hmong Heritage Month 2021

In honor of Hmong Heritage Month 2021, we’re pleased to celebrate and share several Hmong collections shared by Recollection Wisconsin and our partner organizations. Hmong Heritage Month began in 2004 as an opportunity for Wisconsinites to reflect on the many sacrifices that the Hmong, or Hmoob, people have made in service to our country and… Read More…

Finding Relevance in the Past

by Laura Jones, UW-Milwaukee SOIS My name is Laura Jones, and as a budding Library and Information Science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, I was itching to get my hands on some materials in order to practice the skills and theories I’ve learned throughout my coursework. After the cancellation of several summer internships… Read More…

Recollection Wisconsin at Fall Conferences

Are you headed to the Wisconsin Library Association conference in La Crosse or the Local History-Historic Preservation conference in Elkhart Lake later this month? Say hi to the Recollection Wisconsin team! CCDC Project Coordinator Vicki Tobias and Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager Emily Pfotenhauer will be in the WLA Exhibit Hall, Booth 13, Wednesday and Thursday… Read More…

NEH-Funded Project “Listening To War” Moves Forward

This spring, we shared the news of a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support our project Listening To War: Digitizing Wisconsin’s Wartime Histories. This initiative builds on the NEH-funded planning work we undertook in 2016-2017 to identify veterans’ oral history interviews in small and mid-sized libraries and historical societies… Read More…

NEH Grant Will Digitize, Share Wartime Oral Histories

NEH announces new grant recipients

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced $18.6 million in grants for 199 humanities projects across the country. “These new NEH-supported projects deepen our understanding and appreciation of the traditions, values, and historical figures who have shaped our country,” said NEH Senior Deputy Chairman Jon Parrish Peede. We are thrilled to share the… Read More…

Listening to War: Directory and oral history tip sheets

An important product of our yearlong NEH-funded planning project was a directory of the audiovisual collections we identified around the state. The directory, Wisconsin’s Wartime Oral Histories, is now available online. It includes descriptions of 35 A/V collections from 25 Wisconsin libraries, archives and museums. These oral history collections document Wisconsin residents’ experiences of World… Read More…

Interview with Dana Gerber-Margie

For the past year, Digital Archives Assistant Dana Gerber-Margie worked with WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin on the NEH-funded project, Listening to War: Uncovering Wisconsin’s Wartime Oral Histories to identify, inventory, and plan for the digitization and preservation of hidden, at-risk audiovisual collections across Wisconsin. This year-long planning project sought out oral history collections that capture… Read More…

The Arctic Fox Valley

Like my trip to La Crosse, I didn’t let a snowstorm keep me from a two-day trip to the Fox Valley region. The first day was clear and cold with a drive to the Arvid E Miller Memorial Library Museum, a repository for the Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Community. The next day, I conducted an inventory… Read More…

On the River: Oral Histories from La Crosse

Right after a snowstorm hit us on Saturday, I drove through subzero temperatures to spend a few days in La Crosse! La Crosse is a college town with a vibrant downtown right on the Mississippi River. I spent a full day at the La Crosse Public Library and the next day in the UW La… Read More…

Central Wisconsin: Four Organizations in Three Days

For my last post I talked about my trip to Stevens Point in central Wisconsin. Well, I must’ve liked it so much that I went back again to the center of the state. This time, I visited four institutions in four towns: Neillsville, Marshfield, Wausau, and Medford. The first leg of my trip was to… Read More…

Brisk Autumn Trip to Stevens Point

The end of October doesn’t just mean colorful leaves, warmer blankets and Halloween — it also means the Wisconsin Local History and Historic Preservation Conference! This year’s conference was held in Wisconsin Dells, which is kind of like one big pool party for families (it was a little too chilly for conference participants to partake… Read More…

A Superior Lake to Match a Superior Collection

Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center

At the end of August, I had the pleasure of making the long drive north from Madison to Superior, Wisconsin to visit the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center. I had never been so far north in Wisconsin before, so this was a real treat – and I had a great time, meeting quite lovely… Read More…

Finding Oral Histories in Eau Claire

As a proud new team member of Recollection Wisconsin, I’ll be writing a series of dispatches from my travels all over Wisconsin to find oral history collections at libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other memory organizations. I have this rare opportunity thanks to our NEH grant-funded yearlong project, Listening to War: Uncovering Wisconsin’s Wartime… Read More…

Introducing our NEH project

In March, we announced the news that we received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), as part of the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources category, to identify, inventory, and plan for the digitization and preservation of hidden, at-risk audiovisual collections across Wisconsin. More than a month into the grant, it’s time to… Read More…

RW receives NEH planning grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $21.1 million in grants for 248 humanities projects. We are thrilled to share the news that among these is a $40,000 planning grant to WiLS, project manager for Recollection Wisconsin. Our NEH-funded project will identify, assess, and plan for the digitization of oral history interview recordings… Read More…