Category: American history

• Exhibit Checklist for Plants Plantations Labor Trade

  Posted on Dec 8th

  Special Collections is part of the campus Library By Appointment system, and we welcome your visit to consult our holdings in the […]

• New Exhibit: Plants Plantations Labor Trade

  Posted on Jan 27th

  We welcome you to our new exhibit,  Plants  Plantations  Labor  Trade: An Exhibit of Holdings of the UW-Madison Libraries and Wisconsin Historical Society […]

• In the Spirit of Thanksgiving: Sarah Josepha Hale

  Posted on Nov 29th

  Before memories of Thanksgiving 2019 fade away, we want to take the opportunity to highlight the important role of American author and […]

• Women and the Great War: Titles in the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

  Posted on Nov 12th

  Among the strengths of the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers are titles about women’s roles in World War I. In this, […]

• Commemorating the Armistice

  Posted on Nov 11th

  One hundred years ago, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, fighting in the war to end […]

• “Walden” on July 12, 2017: Henry David Thoreau’s 200th Birthday

  Posted on Jul 12th

  The UW-Madison Libraries recently acquired a true first edition of Thoreau’s Walden, Or Life in the Woods published in 1854 by the […]

• To Celebrate Thoreau’s 200th Birthday

  Posted on Jul 12th

  To celebrate Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday, we offer a preview of a new acquisition, the first edition of Walden, or, Life in […]

• Independence Day, 1917

  Posted on Jun 30th

  With Andrea Rolich of the Preservation Department, we were recently looking at the UW-Madison Libraries’ copies of the periodical Every Week, including […]