Holiday Greetings from the Field by Mary Kate Kwasnik
...and British troops ventured out from their trenches into no man’s land to share season’s greetings and cigarettes, or the annual Bob Hope Christmas shows during World War II and...
A Veteran’s First Vehicle: Incorporating the Automobile into the Army during WWI
...linked. In preparation of the centennial anniversary of the United States involvement in World War I, I have worked in the museum’s Research Center with the Museum’s collection of World...
Book a Speaker
...Vicksburg Campaign, Arthur MacArthur at Missionary Ridge, and William Cushing sinking CSS Albemarle in North Carolina. WORLD WAR I Beyond the Trenches: Wisconsin Stories from World War I Wisconsin went...
Eau Claire Veteran J. Birney Dibble Recalls Korean War
...started and there was a ruling that affected a lot of doctors, that if they’d been in seventeen months or more in the Second World War as a doctor, they...
Cemetery Tours Continue Virtually, Share History with Broader Audience
...to these riveting tales of Wisconsinites from the past, museum guides share accounts of unique points of interest on the grounds, such as the Caitlin Chapel, Union Rest, Confederate Rest,...
Giving Opportunities in 2021-2022
...worth of souvenirs originating from around the world, you will learn how the universal human impulse to collect leaves us with both significant and uniquely personal ways to continue to...
WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN, HOSTS BOOTH AT EAA AIRVENTURE IN OSHKOSH
...– The Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison has launched a four-week advertising campaign with billboards and radio focused in the Fox Cities market. The campaign, which runs through Aug. 3,...
Listening to Learn: Oral Histories from Women in Service
...a very good job of breaking them.” Of course, service wasn’t a wholly negative experience for these narrators or other female veterans. Many of them reminisce about getting along with...
Stories of a M.A.S.H. Dr. in the Buna Campaign
...tanks, constructed partly in Wisconsin, began to arrive, in hopes of breaking through the coconut grove. On Friday, December 18th, Doc wrote, “Up very early. Quite a bit of shooting...