Campus Area History

Brought by the UW-Madison Public History Project, visit the Chazen Art Museum's virtual exhibit on the history of resistance at UW-Madison. 

https://chazen.wisc.edu/exhibitions/sifting-reckoning-uw-madisons-history-of-exclusion-and-resistance/

This national historic district shifted in the 20th century from a spacious residential neighborhood for some of Madison's most prominent 19th century families to a current university student enclave.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t3IfsNFvDeziZkTekWMAJT1r8ggBkSxl?usp=sharing

Learn about the Neighborhood House and its surrounding communities' history.

https://neighborhoodhousemadison.org/history/

Learn general Madison fun facts.

https://www.visitmadison.com/media/fun-facts/

West of UW-Madison's observatory, near Observatory Hill's crest, are bird and turtle effigy mounds. 

https://www.cityofmadison.com/dpced/planning/documents/Native%20American%20Mounds%20in%20Madison.pdf

Find this statue commemorating the Greenbush Neighborhood at East Campus Mall and Regent.

https://isthmus.com/arts/saving-the-spirit-of-greenbush-statue/

Historic Madison, Inc. (HMI) has been Madison’s historical society since 1974.

https://www.historicmadison.org/publications