Primary and Archival Sources

Click here for a map of the whole state showing which counties are in which Area Research Center

Research porta/Research resources

Archives catalog (ArCat)

Archives finding aids ("registers")

Library catalog (formerly MadCat - UW-Madison's catalog)

"History Topics"

• Topics in Wisconsin History
• A few examples from your time period:
• Depression and Unemployment
• Progressive Era
• Woman's Suffrage Movement
• World War I, at Home and in the Trenches
• World War II Military and Home Fronts
• Turning Points in Wisconsin History - Hundreds of eyewitness accounts, pictures, documents, etc.

Photographs (Wisconsin Historical Images)

Wisconsin Magazine of History (online index and digitized articles)

• also available through

Research portal/Research resources

Library and archives catalog (all in one)

Archives finding aids

"History Topics" - some "Topics" do include digitized materials

• Minnesota Eugenics Society & Founder Charles Fremont Dight

Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920

Photographs (Visual Resources Database)

• Collections Online - includes  photographs, artwork, 3-D objects, and some oral histories

Minnesota History (online index and digitized articles)