Wisconsin Historical Society Press: 190 books
Limping through Life
A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Limping through Life
A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir
Jerry Apps
“Families throughout the United States lived in fear of polio throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and now the disease had come to our farm. I can still remember that short winter day and the chilly night when I first showed...
by Jerry Apps
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This new addition to the Badger Biography series for young readers features the story of the young Ringling brothers of circus fame. The book tells the inspiring story of the seven sons of German and French immigrants who were guided by their dreams to escape poverty through hard work and ambition....
Dickey Chapelle Under Fire
Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
"It was dawn before I fell asleep, and later in the morning I was only half-awake as I fed a fresh sheet of paper into the typewriter and began to copy the notes from the previous day out of my book. But I wasn't too weary to type the date line firmly as if I'd been writing date lines all my...
Horse-Drawn Days
A Century of Farming with Horses
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Before tractors or steam engines arrived on the farm, horses did all the heavy work. From spring plowing to the fall harvest, the mighty draft horse powered farms across the Midwest. Relied upon to complete a multitude of tasks, including towing threshing machines and plows, hauling milk to the local...
Blue Jenkins
Working for Workers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
When William "Blue" Jenkins was only six months old, he moved with his parents from a Mississippi sharecropper’s farm to the industrial city of Racine, Wisconsin with dreams of a new life. As an African-American in the pre–civil rights era, Blue came face to face with racism: the Ku...
Jens Jensen
Writings Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Jens Jensen (1860–1951) was one of America's most distinguished landscape architects and a pioneering conservationist. During his long and productive career, this Danish-born visionary worked for and with some of the country's most prominent citizens and architects, including Henry Ford, Louis Sullivan,...
Hidden Thunder
Rock Art of the Upper Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
In Hidden Thunder, renowned watercolor artist Geri Schrab and archaeologist Robert "Ernie" Boszhardt give readers an up-close-and-personal look at rock art. With an eye toward preservation, Schrab and Boszhardt take you with them as they research, document, and interpret at the ancient petroglyphs...
The News from Lone Rock
Observations and Witticisms of a Small-Town Newsman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016
At the turn of the twentieth century, the bustling railroad town of Lone Rock, Wisconsin, was home to about a thousand residents, and Freeland Dexter seemed to know the business of every single one. Dexter reported all the news from Lone Rock—from the significant to the trivial, the tragic to the...
Roshara Journal
Chronicling Four Seasons, Fifty Years, and 120 Acres
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
A photographic diary of a small Midwestern farm and the family who’ve made it their home
In Roshara Journal, father-and-son team Jerry and Steve Apps share the monthly happenings at their family’s farm in central Wisconsin. Featuring Steve’s stunning photos and fifty years of Jerry’s...
by Terry Frei
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
On December 11, 1941, All-American football player Dave Schreiner wrote to his parents, "I'm not going to sit here snug as a bug, playing football, when others are giving their lives for their country. ... If everyone tried to stay out of it, what a fine country we'd have!" Schreiner didn't...
Milwaukee Braves
Heroes and Heartbreak
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
During their thirteen years in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Braves never endured a losing season, won two National League pennants, and in 1957 brought Milwaukee its only World Series championship. With a lineup featuring future Hall of Famers Henry Aaron, Warren Spahn, Eddie Matthews, Red Schoendienst,...
Borchert Field
Stories from Milwaukee’s Legendary Ballpark
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Someone lucky enough to live on Milwaukee’s near north side between 1888 and 1952 could experience the world without ever leaving the neighborhood. Nestled between North Seventh and Eighth Streets and West Chambers and Burleigh, Borchert Field was Milwaukee’s major sports venue for 64 years. In...
Good Seeds
A Menominee Indian Food Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
In this food memoir, named for the manoomin or wild rice that also gives the Menominee tribe its name, tribal member Thomas Pecore Weso takes readers on a cook’s journey through Wisconsin’s northern woods. He connects each food—beaver, trout, blackberry, wild rice, maple sugar, partridge—with...
Polka Heartland
Why the Midwest Loves to Polka
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
"Polka Heartland" captures the beat that pulses in the heart of Midwestern culture--the polka--and offers up the fascinating history of how "oompah-pah" came to be the sound of middle America. From the crowded dance tent at Pulaski Polka Days to an off-the-grid Mexican polka dance...