| LEADING ARTICLES: | Page | |
| Milo M. Quaife—Increase Allen Lapham, First Scholar of Wisconsin | 3 | |
| John L. Bracklin—A Forest Fire in Northern Wisconsin | 16 | |
| Louise P. Kellogg—Bankers’ Aid in 1861-62 | 25 | |
| Carl Russell Fish—The Frontier a World Problem | 121 | |
| George Manierre—Early Recollections of Lake Geneva | 142 | |
| Ole. K. Nattestad and Rasmus B. Anderson—Description of a Journey to North America | 149 | |
| Cordelia A. P. Harvey—A Wisconsin Woman’s Picture of President Lincoln | 233 | |
| Sipko F. Rederus—The Dutch Settlements of Sheboygan County | 256 | |
| Lucius G. Fisher—Pioneer Recollections of Beloit and Southern Wisconsin | 266 | |
| Charles A. Ingraham—Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth: First Hero of the Civil War | 349 | |
| Charles Giessing—Where Is the German Fatherland? | 375 | |
| Louise P. Kellogg—The Paul Revere Print of the Boston Massacre | 377 | |
| DOCUMENTS: | ||
| The Dairy of Harvey Reid: Kept at Madison in the Spring of 1861 | 35 | |
| The Chicago Treaty of 1833: Charges Preferred Against George B. Porter: Letter from George B. Porter to President Andrew Jackson | 287 | |
| Some Letters of Paul O. Husting Concerning the Present Crisis | 388 | |
| HISTORICAL FRAGMENTS: | ||
| Wisconsin’s First Versifiers; Memorandum on the Spelling of “Jolliet”; The First Edition of the Zenger Trial, 1736; A Novel Transportation Device | 64 | |
| The Disputed Michigan-Wisconsin Boundary; An Early Wisconsin Play | 304 | |
| The Beginnings of Milwaukee; The Senatorial Election of 1869; “Koshkonong” and “Man Eater”; The Alien Suffrage Provision in the Constitution of Wisconsin | 417 | |
| EDITORIAL: | ||
| Introducing Ourselves; Our State Flag; The Society and the Legislature; Nelson Dewey Park and the First Wisconsin Capitol; Perrot State Park and John A. Latsch; Forest Fires, Generally and in Particular; Consolation for the Present Crisis | 75 | |
| History Repeats Itself; Our Military Record; What of the Future; An Appreciation and a Suggestion; Cannon Fodder | 187 | |
| The Professor and the Finger Bowl; The Printing of Historical Publications; Is War Becoming More Horrible; Some Leaves from the Past; The Development of Humanitarianism; Other Agencies; Some Facts and Figures; Bravery Then and Now; Schrecklichkeit | 309 | |
| Increase A. Lapham and the German Air Raids; Save the Relics; The Newspapers; Removing the Papacy to Chicago | 426 | |
| THE QUESTION BOX: | ||
| The Oldest Church in Wisconsin; The First Mills in the Fox River Valley; Colonel Ellsworth’s Madison Career; The Story of “Glory of the Morning”; The Odanah Indian Reservation; First Exploration of Eastern Wisconsin; A Community Changes Its Name; How the Apostle Islands Were Named; The Services of the Menominee in the Black Hawk War | 87 | |
| Daniel Webster’s Wisconsin Investments; Names Proposed for a New Town; Origin of the Word “Winnequah”; The Discovery of Lake Superior; The Potawatomi During the Revolution; Father Allouez Among the Kickapoo; The Indian Tribes of Iowa | 193 | |
| The First Settler of Baraboo; The Chippewa River During the French and British Régimes; The Career of Colonel G. W. Manypenny; Treaty Hall and Old La Pointe | 319 | |
| COMMUNICATIONS: | ||
| Old Copperheads and New; A Presbyterian Objects | 202 | |
| More Light on the Originator of “Winnequah”; A History of Our State Flag | 327 | |
| “Camouflage” and “Eatless Days” Two Hundred Years Ago; Daniel Webster’s Wisconsin Investments | 432 | |
| SURVEY OF HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES: | ||
| The Society and the State | 101, 206, 330, 435 | |
| Some Publications | 111, 221, 340, 445 | |
| Some Wisconsin Public Documents | 210, 337 | |
| The Wider Field | 449 | |