I tried to post this last week, but got an error message. Let's try it again. ==================================== 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.