Wisconsin Historical Society Press: 190 books
Living a Country Year
Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Jerry App’s farm stories open the barn door to understanding life in the country.
“Even with the all the hard work, we had more time (perhaps we took more time) to enjoy what was all around us: nights filled with starlight, days with clear blue skies and puffy clouds. Wonderful smells everywhere—fresh...
Perimeter
A Contemporary Portrait of Lake Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Commissioned by the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University to create an artwork reflecting on the importance of freshwater, Milwaukee-based photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki embarked on a two-week, 1,800-mile drive around Lake Michigan. He traveled its perimeter, through Wisconsin, Illinois,...
Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
“Little Hawk” was born Raymond Kaquatosh in 1924 on Wisconsin’s Menominee Reservation. The son of a medicine woman, Ray spent his Depression-era boyhood immersed in the beauty of the natural world and the traditions of his tribe and his family.
After his father’s death, eight-year-old Ray...
People of the Big Voice
Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
People of the Big Voice tells the visual history of Ho-Chunk families at the turn of the twentieth century and beyond as depicted through the lens of Black River Falls, Wisconsin studio photographer, Charles Van Schaick. The family relationships between those who “sat for the photographer” are...
Whispers and Shadows
A Naturalist’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In these times of technological innovation and fast-paced electronic communication, we often take nature for granted—or even consider it a hindrance to our human endeavors. In Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir, Jerry Apps explores such topics as the human need for wilderness, rediscovering...
The Great Peshtigo Fire
An Eyewitness Account
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Reverend Peter Pernin was the parish priest for Peshtigo and nearby Marinette, whose churches burned to the ground. He published his account of the fire in 1874. The late William Converse Haygood served as editor of the Wisconsin Magazine of History from 1957 to 1975. He prepared this version of Father...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
An unforgettable collection of 174 letters and diary entries written by 92 wisconsin men and women who served in Vietnam. Includes a journal kept by Menasha native Frederic Flom on cigarette wrappers during his final 16 days of captivity — the only known diary smuggled out by a Vietnam prisoner of war.
A Settler's Year
Pioneer Life through the Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
"This is a book with great meaning for those of us who grew up on farms, and a book to be shared with young people eager to know more about pioneer life." --Jerry Apps, author of "Old Farm: A History" and "Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist's Memoir"
"A Settler's...
Old Farm Country Cookbook
Recipes, Menus, and Memories
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
When Jerry Apps was growing up on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s and 1940s, times were tough. Yet most folks living on farms had plenty to eat. Preparing food from scratch was just the way things were done, and people knew what was in their food and where it came from. Delicious meals were at the center...
Milwaukee
A City Built on Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Paddle through the watery history of the Midwest’s Cream City.
The success and survival of Milwaukee lies in the rivers that meander through its streets and the great lake at its shore. The area’s earliest inhabitants recognized the value of an abundant, clean water supply for food and...
Old Abe the War Eagle
A True Story of the Civil War And Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
The story of Old Abe, the bald eagle that became the mascot of the Eighth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. It is also the story of the men among whom Old Abe lived: the farmers, loggers, clerks, and immigrants who flocked to the colors in 1861.
Hunting Camp 52
Tales from a North Woods Deer Camp
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Meet the Jolly Boys—five men from northern Wisconsin who built a deer hunting shack in 1955 and established a tradition that has now lasted over six decades. Hunting Camp 52, affectionately known as Blue Heaven, is a place where every trail, rock, and ravine has its own nickname; every kill is recorded...
How to Make a Life
A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
An immigration story of crossing cultural bridges and finding family.
When Madeline Uraneck said hello to the Tibetan woman cleaning her office cubicle, she never imagined the moment would change her life. After learning that Tenzin Kalsang had left her husband and four children behind in a...
by Wendy Bilen
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
With a focus squarely on the Midwest, Wendy Bilen pieces together the history of her grandmother, Josie Broadhead, born in 1911 and raised on the North Dakota prairie. Josie married a Wisconsin farmer and moved to a large dairy farm outside La Crosse; along the way she began taking in people in need...