wisconsin, frank lloyd wright's contribution to the skyline include the monona terrace and then unitarian meetinghouse. partnerser cable worked with the c-span city tour staff when we travel to madison to explore its history. learn more about madison all weekend on american history tv. ♪ >> welcome to wisconsin's state capital. we are standing in the rotunda of the building. this is the public area of the capitol. this is where we have all our big parties, presentations. when you walk up, you see a big, white stone building. that stone is granite we got from vermont. 43 different kinds of stone were used to build the capital. stone from all over the world. six foreign countries, 8 states. great big dome on the outside of itol covered in granite. we have the only state capital covered in credit. we finish off with a statue -- we call her wisconsin p ritchie hera w -- we claall wisconsin. she has a w on her chest. she weighs over 6000 pounds. then we gave her that nice gold coat. ityou look past behind me, says legislation on a mosaic. an artist has created each mosaic with 100,000 little pieces of colo

wisconsin, architect frank lloyd writes contributions to the madison skyline include the unitarian meetinghouse. our charter cable partners worked with c-span staff when we recently traveled to medicine to explore the city's rich history. learn more about madison all weekend here on american history tv. >> we are on the ninth floor of memorial library at the university of wisconsin madison. we are in the middle of an exhibit called "1914: then came armageddon." the goal was to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the outbreak of the war. toferent artifacts related not only wisconsin's role in the war, but also what was happening in each combatant country when the conflict began in the summer of 1914. the war broke out in the summer of 1914 after franz ferdinand, the archduke and heir to the austrian hungarian throne, was assassinated by a member of a serbian military group called the black hand whose goal was to bring all serbs together in one country, independent of austro-hungarian control. after the assassination of the air to the throne, austria put pressure on serbia to allow them to co