Special Collections is part of the campus Library By Appointment system, and we welcome your visit to consult our holdings in the […]
We welcome you to our new exhibit, Plants Plantations Labor Trade: An Exhibit of Holdings of the UW-Madison Libraries and Wisconsin Historical Society […]
Before memories of Thanksgiving 2019 fade away, we want to take the opportunity to highlight the important role of American author and […]
Among the strengths of the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers are titles about women’s roles in World War I. In this, […]
One hundred years ago, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, fighting in the war to end […]
The UW-Madison Libraries recently acquired a true first edition of Thoreau’s Walden, Or Life in the Woods published in 1854 by the […]
To celebrate Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday, we offer a preview of a new acquisition, the first edition of Walden, or, Life in […]
With Andrea Rolich of the Preservation Department, we were recently looking at the UW-Madison Libraries’ copies of the periodical Every Week, including […]