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Call for Contributors
WISCONSIN MILITARY HERITAGE SITES

To help celebrate the 150th anniversary of Wisconsin statehood, the
Wisconsin Veterans Museum has initiated the Wisconsin Military Heritage
Sites project.  The final product will be a catalog of military-related
historic sites around the Badger State.

The museum has recruited numerous experts from public history and academia
to contribute essays on particular sites.  While most of the sites have
already been assigned writers, there are still a few topics for which we
would like to find contributors.  We seek brief essays (only about 3-6
paragraphs) on the following topics:

BAY VIEW INCIDENT (Milwaukee, WI) --  This is the 1886 labor uprising
suppressed by Wisconsin National Guard.  The neighborhood is presently a
well-preserved working class historic district, and a discussion of the
eventÉs context within labor history, as well as that of the US military, is
desired.

FORT McCOY (Sparta, WI) --  The site was particularly important during World
War II as a facility for holding German and Japanese POWs, and for training
the US ArmyÉs famed Nisei units.

ST. JOHNÉS MILITARY ACADEMY (Delafield, WI)  --  This essay should feature
the academyÉs most famous commandant, General Charles King.

Authors need only be concerned with providing the historical context of the
sites, and a short bibliography.  Museum staff members will visit each of
the sites and describe their present-day features, so contributors need not
visit the sites themselves.  All contributors will be properly credited for
their work.

The final product will be published on the Internet, on the Wisconsin
Veterans MuseumÉs World Wide Web site.  A print guide is also in the works.
 The featured historic sites span more than 300 years of Wisconsin history,
from the French exploration of the 1600s to the present.  The web site will
feature an interactive map of the Black Hawk War, complete with moving
arrows charting the progress of the 1832 campaign through Illinois and
Wisconsin.

The project has been made possible by a grant from the Wisconsin
Sesquicentennial Commission, and is being conducted in cooperation with the
Cartography Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which is designing
the web site and producing maps especially for the project.

If you are interested in contributing a brief essay to the project, please
contact:

Mark D. Van Ells, Archivist/Historian
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
30 West Mifflin Street
Madison, WI 53703
phone (608) 267-1790
fax (608) 264-7615
email [log in to unmask]

PS:  We are also exploring the possibility of setting up a mirror site on
another server.  Any information on groups or institutions willing to host a
mirror site would be appreciated.