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词条 Wisconsin Historical Society
释义

  1. Organization

      Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections    Division of Museums and Historic Sites    Division of Historic Preservation-Public History    Wisconsin Magazine of History    Division of Administrative Services  

  2. Notable people

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. Further reading

  6. External links

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The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West. Founded in 1846 and chartered in 1853, it is the oldest historical society in the United States to receive continuous public funding.[1][2] The society's headquarters are located in Madison, Wisconsin, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Organization

The Wisconsin Historical Society is organized into four divisions: the Division of Library-Archives, the Division of Museums and Historic Sites, the Division of Historic Preservation-Public History, and the Division of Administrative Services.

Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

The Division of Library-Archives collects and maintains books and documents about the history of Wisconsin, the United States, and Canada. The society's library and archives, which together serve as the library of American history for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, contain nearly four million items, making the society's collection the largest in the world dedicated exclusively to North American history.[3][4] The Wisconsin Historical Society's extensive newspaper collection is the second largest in the United States after the Library of Congress.[5][6][7]

The society's archives also serve as the official repository for state and local government records.[1] The society coordinates an Area Research Center Network, an alliance between the Historical Society in Madison and four-year campuses of the University of Wisconsin System throughout the state, to make most of the archival collections accessible to state residents.

Division of Museums and Historic Sites

The Division of Museums and Historic Sites operates the Wisconsin Historical Museum in downtown Madison and 11 historic sites throughout the state. The museum has an archaeology program in collaboration with the Department of Transportation and the Department of Natural Resources that undertakes research, and collects and preserves historical artifacts.[8] The other historic sites are tourist attractions that display historic buildings reflecting Wisconsin history and provide exhibitions and demonstrations of state history, such as ethnic settlement, mining, farming, fur trading, transportation, and pioneering life.

Historic SiteLocation
Black Point EstateLake Geneva, Wisconsin
Circus World MuseumBaraboo, Wisconsin
First CapitolBelmont, Wisconsin
H. H. Bennett StudioWisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Madeline Island MuseumLa Pointe, Wisconsin
Old World WisconsinEagle, Wisconsin
PendarvisMineral Point, Wisconsin
Reed SchoolNeillsville, Wisconsin
StonefieldCassville, Wisconsin
Sylvanus Wade HouseGreenbush, Wisconsin
Villa LouisPrairie du Chien, Wisconsin

Division of Historic Preservation-Public History

The Division of Historic Preservation-Public History administers the state's historic preservation program,[1] the state’s burial sites preservation program, and the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, which publishes books on Wisconsin and American history and a quarterly magazine, the Wisconsin Magazine of History. The division also provides outreach to local historical societies.

Wisconsin Magazine of History

The Wisconsin Magazine of History ({{ISSN|1943-7366}}) is a quarterly journal published by the WHS since September 1917.[9] The society maintains a fully digitized archive that contains more than 2,000 feature articles totaling more than 30,000 pages.[10]

Division of Administrative Services

The Division of Administrative Services provides support and planning for the WHS and its divisions.

The society's website include a large, searchable collection of historical images and a vast digital archive containing thousands of scanned documents relating to Wisconsin history.

Wisconsin Historical Society employees are employees of the State of Wisconsin.[11]

Notable people

  • John Givan Davis Mack, professor of engineering and curator of the WHS library[12]

See also

  • Google Books Library Project

References

1. ^{{Cite book | author = Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau | title = State of Wisconsin 1985-1986 Blue Book | place = Madison | publisher = Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau | year = 1985 | chapter = The Executive Branch | page = 460 | url = http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=goto&id=WI.WIBlueBk1985&page=460&isize=L | quote = Founded in 1846 and chartered in 1853, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin is the nation's oldest historical society to receive continuing grants of state funds}}
2. ^About page at the Wisconsin Historical Society website.
3. ^{{Cite journal | title = Bucerius Seminar 2005: American History and American Archives | journal = German Historical Institute Bulletin | issue = 38 | page = 139 | publisher = German Historical Institute | date = Spring 2006 | url = http://www.ghi-dc.org/publications/ghipubs/bu/038/138.pdf | quote = the Wisconsin Historical Society, which is impressive both as a building and as an institution. It is the largest library for American history, it functions as a state archive, it is the premier place to do research on Wisconsin | accessdate = 10 April 2010}}
4. ^"Wisconsin Historical Society" at www.madison.com.
5. ^{{Cite book | last = Cates | first = Jo A. | title = Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature | publisher = Greenwood Publishing | year = 2004 | location = Westport, CT | page = 251 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_5teOHM8MWQC&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=wisconsin+historical+newspaper+%22second+largest+collection%22&source=bl&ots=B9XMxK1j-x&sig=v_F7jRuipB_5kpZNQqdJSk2Qltw&hl=en&ei=2mDCS4r3E4aglAf6taXaBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CBsQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=wisconsin%20historical%20newspaper%20%22second%20largest%20collection%22&f=false}}
6. ^Newspapers for Genealogy from the Wisconsin Historical Society
7. ^Newspaper & Periodicals Collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society
8. ^Wisconsin Historical Society. About the Division of Museums and Historic Sites".
9. ^{{cite journal | url=http://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jsp.44.2.002?journalCode=jsp | title=The Wisconsin Magazine of History: A Case Study in Scholarly and Popular Approaches to American State Historical Society Publishing, 1917–2000 | author=Schumacher, Ryan | journal=Journal of Scholarly Publishing | year=January 2013 | volume=44 | issue=2 | pages=114–141 | doi=10.3138/jsp.44.2.002 | ISSN=1198-9742}}
10. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS3365 | title=About the Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives | publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society | accessdate=October 21, 2017}}
11. ^WHS job announcement from 2010
12. ^On the Presentation of the Mack Portrait to the State Historical Society. The Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 8, no. 1 (September, 1924), pp. 74-77.

Further reading

  • Buck, Solon J. "Recent Activities of the Wisconsin Historical Society." Minnesota History Bulletin (1915): 94-108. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20160142 in JSTOR]
  • Schumacher, Ryan. "The Wisconsin Magazine of History: A Case Study in Scholarly and Popular Approaches to American State Historical Society Publishing, 1917–2000." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44.2 (2013): 114-141.

External links

{{Commons category|Wisconsin Historical Society}}
  • {{Official website|http://www.wisconsinhistory.org}}
  • Wisconsin Magazine of History archive of scholarly articles
  • Legislators’ Guide to the Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Historical Society in The Buildings of the University of Wisconsin
  • Teachinghistory.org review of WHS website, American Journeys
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