{"id":16141,"date":"2015-05-29T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=16141"},"modified":"2015-05-29T13:51:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:51:30","slug":"may-29-wisconsin-enters-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/16141","title":{"rendered":"May 29: Wisconsin enters the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrate May 29th! On this day in 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state. Did you know that the people voted against statehood four times? And then it took a while to agree on a constitution. Read more about “The State Constitutions of 1846 and 1848<\/a>” (part of of the Wisconsin Historical Society’s (WHS) online “Turning points in Wisconsin history”).<\/p>\n

If you’d like to learn more about our great state and its history, Andersen Library can help! Search Research@UWW<\/a> to find books such as the classic single-volume history Wisconsin: A history<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, F581 .N47 1989), The Indians in Wisconsin’s history<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, E78 .W8 D6), Wisconsin in the Civil War: The home front and the battle front, 1861-1865<\/em> (3rd-floor Main OVERSIZE Collection, E537.9 .K54 1997) or the many books on more specific topics such as specific immigrant groups in Wisconsin’s history, e.g., Germans in Wisconsin<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, F590.G3 Z44 2000), Norwegians in Wisconsin<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, F590.S2 F36 2001), and Finns in Wisconsin<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, F590 .F5 K5). The 2nd-floor Wisconsin Documents collection holds treasures such as the Chronicles of Wisconsin<\/a> series at Wis HIS 3:C 4, which includes titles such as Wisconsin defies the fugitive slave law: The case of Sherman M. Booth<\/em>, Wisconsin agriculture: The rise of the dairy cow<\/em>, The British leave Wisconsin: The War of 1812<\/em><\/a>, and Wisconsin grows to statehood: Immigration and internal improvements<\/em>. Or, browse articles in WHS’s Wisconsin magazine of history<\/em> (in print in Andersen Library’s 1st-floor Periodicals Collection, or online<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like assistance with finding additional materials, please ask a librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"FDLP Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD\/CD-ROM, online). Check out your<\/em> government at Andersen Library!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrate May 29th! On this day in 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state. Did you know that the people voted against statehood four times? And then it took a while to agree on a constitution. Read more about “The State … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2768,35],"tags":[875,178,783,231,110476,658,311,2580],"class_list":["post-16141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-wisconsin","category-infogov","tag-anniversaries","tag-books","tag-government-info","tag-history","tag-statehood","tag-web-sites","tag-wisconsin","tag-wisconsin-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141\/revisions\/16146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}