A Date Which Will Live in Infamy by Emily Irwin
Stanley Gruber. Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, where an estimated 200 Wisconsin men and women were stationed on December 7, 1941. One such Wisconsinite...
Lincoln’s Railcar Plate
...When it was completed a few months later, the new car, dubbed the “United States,” was considered the most opulent private railcar of its day. This brass builder’s plate from...
The Iron Brigade & the Black Hat
“There are them damned black hatted fellows again!” This cry, and others like it, were made by disheartened Confederate troops on the first day of fighting at the Battle of...
Spencer Bronson: Witness to Murder
...has no parallel since the days of Roman greatness when Caesar was struck down.” Lincoln, still alive, was taken across the street and tended by doctors, who were unable to...
Temporary Exhibits
...view now. Souvenirs of Service: The Things They Kept This exhibit includes items collected from the Civil War era to modern-day. The objects range from artillery shells painted in WWI...
William Stark and the Church Pennant
...explosion, he unpacked the contents and came across a long-forgotten pennant that perhaps was part of the reason his life was spared that day the year before. Stark recalled that...
Pearl Harbor Remembered through Oral Histories
...contains more than 15 interviews with veterans who were stationed at Pearl Harbor on that fateful day. It also includes interviews with hundreds of veterans who relate how and when...
Harold Schmitz
...save several valuable contracts by whipping out the pasteups for the last ninetysix pages in a day and a half, including fixing up the bum proofs Joe always turns out...
Poetry and Proverbs
...limited, but Ingersoll described a near miss in his diary entry for that day—“Fighting today. Got a ball through my coat tail and damaged this book as you see.” Ingersoll’s...