I Am Not Invisible

...IANI participants in order to give them an opportunity to share their stories at length and add the stories to the museum collections. The online project page and access was...

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Wisconsin’s veterans remember 9/11

...parents. For the rest us, too young to remember, trying to grasp the experience of those who lived through September 11, 2001, could involve watching online videos, reading social media...

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February 2021 Virtual! Drink & Draw

...Paper, either sketching or printer paper will work fine as well Colored Pencils- any brand. The instructor prefers Prismacolor Premier Pencils (see photo below) including the Colorless Blender. These pencils...

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A video interview with Brigadier General Robert Andrew Cocroft

...online. The unpreventable background noise ends at about nine minutes into the recording. Click the above image to get started This interview uses an interactive research tool called the Oral...

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WAR: RAW – Healing Military Trauma Through Expressive Art

WAR: RAW - Healing Military Trauma Through Expressive Art In 2015, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum (WVM) partnered with Artists for the Humanities (A4TH) to curate an exhibit featuring artwork done...

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The Barber Brothers

Generations of Service

...here to give the briefest survey of this topic. To explore these stories, or other families in our collection, please click this link: Wisconsin Veterans Museum Online Collections Written by...

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Honoring Hmong Veterans of Wisconsin

...Hmong service to the United States, we present four online oral histories from the Recognizing the Hmong: SGU Veterans Project. The oral histories form part of the Recognizing the Hmong:...

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Book Talk with Robin Williams- The Last Romantic War

...for love. Burning airplanes, runaway horses, errant hand grenades and a sexy spy hold the reader’s attention from the first page to the last. REGISTER HERE This online event is...

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Historian How To: Cataloging Oral Histories Using OCLC

The purpose of this quick class is to teach the student how to use the Online Computer Library Catalog (OCLC) for cataloging oral histories on WorldCat.Org. The content covers using...

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Ghost Mountain Commander from Neillsville

...sale in our online bookstore: The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea In the future, we hope to post another Ghost Mountain soldier’s...

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