To mark the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), the Wisconsin Historical Society created this digital collection containing dozens of diaries, regimental histories and book-length memoirs, thousands of soldiers’ letters, hundreds of newspaper articles and more than 1,000 photographs, maps and other images.
Periodicals
Magazines, newsletters, newspapers (including news clippings) and other serial publications.
Wisconsin Labor Advocate Newspaper
The Wisconsin Labor Advocate was a weekly newspaper published in La Crosse in 1886-1887. La Crosse was a hotbed of Labor political party activity in the 1880s and the Labor Advocate was one of at least four La Crosse area Labor-related newspapers from that time. George Edwin Taylor, the newspaper’s editor and owner, was African-American, born in Arkansas in 1857.
Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives
More than 2,000 feature articles totaling over 35,000 pages, exactly as they originally appeared in the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Includes the entire archive of previous issues, back to 1917.
Wisconsin Traffic Safety Reporter
Issues of the Wisconsin Traffic Safety Reporter newsletter from 1959, published by the Safety Division of the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department.
