Keeper of the Stories: This Is Russ Horton
Do you ever wonder where Google gets all the answers? Behind the billions of questions we humans have, there are people combing through and preserving stacks of primary source material to deliver those answers in a digestible form. One of those people works as the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Reference and
The Archivist Chronicles: A Union Addition by Andrew Baraniak
The use of wallpaper as a substitute for newsprint was a common occurrence for some printers in Louisiana and Mississippi during the Civil War. Most paper mills were in the North, and printers in those regions looked to wallpaper as an alternative to dwindling paper supplies as the war dragged
The Archivist Chronicles: Civil War History Mystery
Each of the thousands of objects in our collection has a story behind them. Ideally, our staff records that story at the time the item is donated—but sometimes we have to uncover the story ourselves, even after more than 100 years have passed. These “history mysteries” are a challenging but fun aspect