WORLD WAR I STORIES FROM A CENTURY AGO TOLD IN VETS’ OWN WORDS IS A FIRST FOR WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM
...own words. “WWI Beyond the Trenches: Stories from the Front,” debuts Friday, April 21 and runs through April 2019. This is the first time the museum has used a story-based...
WWI Sheet Music by Laura Farley
...he’ll be.” Many American soldiers traveled overseas for the first time and flares or foreign culture showed up in American sheet music. Some songs featured lyrics in French like “When...
Mexican Expedition
By Russ Horton, Reference Archivist. Image courtesy Library of Congress. One hundred years ago today, President Woodrow Wilson ordered the mobilization of the Wisconsin National Guard for military service. However,...
The Army Olympian: Carleton L. Brosius
By Russ Horton, Reference Archivist Carleton L. Brosius (WVM Mss 17) Wisconsin has a long and proud Olympic tradition—one that is often associated with the Winter Games. Athletes from the...
Spencer Bronson: Witness to Murder
On April 14, 1865, during a performance of the play Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater, actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth slipped into the theater box and shot...
MEDIA ALERT: NEW WWI EXHIBIT FACT SHEET, “WWI BEYONG THE TRENCHES: Stories from the Front”
...bring to life the humanity behind the history. This is the first story-based exhibit for the museum. Hours, Location, Web Address The exhibit debuts Friday, April 21 and runs through...
Vietnam Veterans Day
On March 29, 1973, the last US combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, and the last prisoners of war held in North Vietnam returned to American soil. Since then, Vietnam...
WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER 2014 EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
...Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard Unit” and “This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home,” and other travelling exhibits and booths. WHAT: Barbarians and Brothers, Anglo-American Warfare 1500-1865...
Part I: Okinawa: Genesis of a Battle
...major battle before the atomic age, and the largest sea-air-land battle in history. It also cost more American casualties than any previous Pacific battle. The invasion of Okinawa and the...