Periodicals

Magazines, newsletters, newspapers (including news clippings) and other serial publications.

The Home Front – Manitowoc County in World War II

The Home Front – Manitowoc County in World War II

This collection documents the history of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin 1939-1947, including both universal homefront experiences and activities as they played out locally, and more unique activities that defined the area during WWII, specifically shipbuilding and manufacturing.

The Racquet Newspaper

The Racquet student newspaper was first published by the La Crosse Normal School in 1910, and remains a paper publication on the UW-La Crosse campus to this day. New issues are added to the digital collection on an annual basis.

The Sphere: The Nation’s First and Only Grocery Fanzine

Published every full moon (approximately) from 1993-1995, The Sphere was a fanzine published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Mike Koppa and distributed at Koppa’s Farwell Foods. This digital collection includes the full run of this unique publication, with the exception of Volume 1, Numbers 1, 2, and 4.

Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters

The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is an independent, nonprofit membership organization chartered by the state legislature in 1870. Transactions, an annual journal (1870-2001), was central to the Academy’s goal of uniting scientists, humanities scholars and artists together to stimulate learning and exchange of research.

University of Wisconsin Collection

University of Wisconsin Collection

Images, manuscripts, books and other materials documenting the history and mission of the University of Wisconsin System. Includes content from all four-year campuses and nearly all of the two-year colleges in the UW System.

UW-La Crosse Alumnus Collection

More recently known as the Lantern, the alumni publication for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse has gone by many names, including Alumnus, Crossties, La Crosse Alumnus and Alumni Briefs. It was first published as the Alumni Bulletin in 1941.

UW-La Crosse Publications

Various newsletters distributed by UW-La Crosse departments and campus organizations, including Murphy Library, the Organization for Campus Women, the College of Business Administration, the College of Science and Health and the College of Liberal Studies.

UW-La Crosse ROTC Scrapbook & Photograph Collection

Donated to UW-La Crosse Murphy Library Special Collections in 2018, these three large scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and other materials related to the ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) and the Military Science department on the UWL campus. In addition to the scrapbooks, this collection contains other photographs, multiple issues of The Cadence newspaper, and several cadet handbooks. Additional manuscript material is available in UWL Special Collections.

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