I have received the latest information: REMEMBER... it is a big database and covers more than JUST Wisconsin.. so scout......check your name of interest, state, occupation, era During January, Turning Points in Wisconsin History (http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/) published 70 more eyewitness accounts from our past. More than 500 primary sources are now available there, all of them annotated and interpreted for non-specialists. Here are some of the things added last month. 1. Black History, for February: We went through all 500 eyewitness accounts and made sure that anything useful for Black History Month was properly cataloged. Type "African American" in the search box on the Home Page to find everything available at the moment (more's being added daily). - Middle school readers might be interested in this memoir of what happened when a Kentucky slave owner came to Janesville in 1861, in pursuit of an escaped slave: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=945 - High school and college students could analyze the arguments used by Rev. William Brisbane, of Iowa County, explaining his transformation from slave owner to abolitionist: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=23 - Many stories of Wisconsin Underground Railroad escapes are included in this 1897 book by J. N. Davidson: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=44 2. Items about Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin: - Amazing as it sounds today, in the 1830s Milwaukee developers tried to dig a canal to the lead region: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=108 - A Racine pastor invented a horseless carriage in 1873: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=946 - 19th-century German immigrants tell their stories in more than 70 newspaper articles: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=955 3. Documents about the Fox Valley and northeastern Wisconsin: - A real-life "Little House" girlhood in Waupaca County in the 1850s: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=954 - The Civil War diary of a boy from Sheboygan County: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=987 - The great Green Bay to Madison automobile race of 1878: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=947 - Electricity is generated and sold for the first time in history, in Appleton, 1882: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=974 4. Items about northern Wisconsin and Lake Superior: - Traders deliberately introduce smallpox among the Ojibwe in the 1770s: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=384 - An Italian nobleman describes the first steamboat trip on the Upper Mississippi, in 1823: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=120 - Ojibwe chiefs protest broken treaties to officials in Washington in 1864: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=40 - A pioneer recalls community-building in the forests of Washburn County in the 1880s: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=953 5. Stories from south central Wisconsin: - A scientist's trip to the Dells in 1849: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=978 - More than 40 stories by or about Norwegian immigration to Wisconsin: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=956 - A Sauk Co. farmer recalls switching from wheat to dairy in the 1850s: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=963 6. And from southwestern Wisconsin: - One of the first miners recalls coming to the lead region in 1823-1824: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=895 - A map of the lead region in 1829 shows lots of taverns, but no churches: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=106 - A negotiator reports on the 1829 talks at Prairie du Chien with the assembled Wisconsin tribes: www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=116 7. Other interesting topics: - In 1889, legislators try to force an English-only law on the state's schools: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-031/ - In the 1850s, the Republican Party is born in Ripon and takes a moral stand: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-022/ - In the opening decades of the 20th century, the Progressives face up to political corruption and social injustice: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-036/ At the end of January the Associated Press covered our efforts to put your history on the Web, in a story that went to dozens of media outlets around the nation. Here's the text as ABC News reported it: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=441094&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 and here are pictures that accompanied it, showing some of the staff here who are creating the Turning Points project for you: http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22wisconsin+historical+society%22&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&c=news_photos