Wisconsin Historical Society Press imprint: 190 books
Life in a Northern Town
Cooking, Eating, and Other Adventures along Lake Superior
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
"Generations of men and women have stood on these beaches, listened to water rushing over these basalt rocks, and picked wild blueberries here well before I sailed into the Bayfield harbor. The families of those men and women are still here, tethered to a place where they can slip behind their...
This Superior Place
Stories of Bayfield and the Apostle Islands
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Picturesque little Bayfield on Lake Superior is Wisconsin’s smallest city by population but one of its most popular visitor destinations. This book captures those unique qualities that keep tourists coming back year after year and offers a historically reliable look at the community as it is today...
Father Groppi
Marching for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Father Groppi Marched to Change Milwaukee
"Father Groppi: Marching for Civil Rights" tells the story of Father James Groppi, a Catholic priest from Milwaukee, Wis., who stood up for civil rights in the 1960s and 1970s.
This important new addition to the Badger Biographies series...
A Recipe for Success
Lizzie Kander and Her Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
A Recipe for Success: Lizzie Kander and her Cookbook celebrates the life of Milwaukee’s early twentieth-century culinary wonder. This new addition to the Badger Biography series will introduce young readers to a remarkable young woman who made a difference in the lives of the early immigrants in...
Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie du Chien
History and Folklore from Wisconsin's Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Albert Coryer, the grandson of a fur trade voyageur-turned-farmer, had a gift for storytelling. Born in 1877, he grew up in Prairie du Chien hearing tales of days gone by from his parents, grandparents, and neighbors who lived in the Frenchtown area. Throughout his life, Albert soaked up the local...
The Man Who Painted the Universe
The Story of a Planetarium in the Heart of the North Woods
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
As a young boy Frank Kovac Jr. fell deeply in love with stargazing, painting glow-in-the-dark constellations on his bedroom wall and inviting friends to an observatory he built in his Chicago backyard. As he reached adulthood, Kovac did not let go of his childhood dreams of reaching the stars. He...
by Julia Pferdehirt
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
On July 4th, 1842, Caroline Quarlls left family, friends, and the only life she'd known behind in St. Louis, Missouri. As the child of a slave mother and a slave-owner father, her young life was one of drudgery and obedience until that fateful Independence Day when she illegally took a steamboat across...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This moving documentary volume brings together fourteen interviews of Holocaust survivors who later settled in Wisconsin. With words and photographs they describe the richness of pre-war Jewish life in Europe; the advent of proscriptive laws, arrests, and deportation; the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi camps; and ultimately the liberation and postwar experiences of the survivors.
Building Taliesin
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home of Love and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence for the rest...
Roughneck Grace
Farmer Yoga, Creeping Codgerism, Apple Golf, and Other Brief Essays from on and off the Back Forty
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and newspaper columnist Michael Perry returns with a new collection of bite-sized essays from his Sunday Wisconsin State Journal column, “Roughneck Grace.” Perry’s perspectives on everything from cleaning the chicken coop to sharing a New York...
Joyce Westerman
Baseball Hero
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Joyce Westerman grew up on a farm in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. As a kid, she cleaned the barn, picked vegetables, and helped her father cut down trees. But what she really loved to do was play baseball. Joyce played ball at recess and with friends whenever she could. She even joined her aunt’s...
Great Ships on the Great Lakes
A Maritime History
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
In this highly accessible history of ships and shipping on the Great Lakes, upper elementary readers are taken on a rip-roaring journey through the waterways of the upper Midwest.
Great Ships on the Great Lakes explores the history of the region’s rivers, lakes, and inland seas—and the...
Return to Wake Robin
One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Five generations of Marnie O. Mamminga’s family have been rejuvenated by times together in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. In a series of evocative remembrances accompanied by a treasure trove of vintage family photos, Mamminga takes us to Wake Robin, the cabin her grandparents built in 1929 on Big Spider...
One-Room Country Schools
History and Recollections
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
A popular collection of memories and recollections from people who learned at and taught in one-room schools in Wisconsin, including former pupil Jerry Apps, the book’s author.