Wisconsin Historical Society Press: 190 books
by Phillips G. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Between 1840 and 1890, many Welsh looked to Wisconsin for relief where they could purchase inexpensive, productive land. With large Welsh landowners controlling most of the arable land in Wales and Corn Laws, which prohibited importation of cheap food, domestic food prices increased dramatically and...
The War of 1812 in Wisconsin
The Battle for Prairie du Chien
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
In The War of 1812 in Wisconsin, author Mary Elise Antoine brings a little-known corner of Wisconsin’s history to life. Prairie du Chien, located just above mouth of the Wisconsin River, was the key to trade on the upper Mississippi. Whoever controlled the prairie commanded the immense territory...
The Great War Comes to Wisconsin
Sacrifice, Patriotism, and Free Speech in a Time of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Great War Comes to Wisconsin examines Wisconsin’s response to World War I, the first "total war" of the twentieth century, a war so large that it engaged virtually everyone.
Instead of a comprehensive history of the battlefield, this book captures the homefront experience: the political...
The Bark River Chronicles
Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The Bark River valley in southeastern Wisconsin is a microcosm of the state's - indeed, of the Great Lakes region's - natural and human history. "The Bark River Chronicles" reports one couple's journey by canoe from the river's headwaters to its confluence with the Rock River and several...
Flavor of Wisconsin for Kids
A Feast of History, with Stories and Recipes Celebrating the Land and People of Our State
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
What are some food favorites in Wisconsin, and why are they special to us? How have our landscape and the people who have inhabited it contributed to our food heritage? This unique blend of history book and cookbook gives kids a real taste for hands-on history by showing them how to create and sample...
Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom
Wildlife Conservation Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Learn how Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom worked to save the greater prairie chicken from extinction in the Wisconsin Historical Society Press’s new book for young readers, "Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers." Fran and Frederick grew up in New England, and married...
by Jerry Apps
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
In this new edition of his classic book, award-winning author Jerry Apps shares a unique perspective on the great barns of rural Wisconsin. Digging deep as both an enthusiast and a farmer, Apps reaps a story of change: from the earliest pioneer structures to the low steel buildings of modern dairy...
by Frederick Hale
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
The revised and expanded edition of Frederick Hale’s Swedes in Wisconsin begins with the story of the state’s first legal Swedish immigrants, a group of six young people and a hunting dog who set sail from Gävle, Sweden, in 1841 and established Wisconsin’s first Swedish settlement, New Uppsala,...
Wisconsin in the Civil War
The Home Front and the Battle Front, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The final book by Marquette University historian Frank L. Klement (1905-1994), this is a vivid chronological narrative of Wisconsin's role in the pivotal event in American history. In this volume, Klement greatly expanded his 1962 booklet on this topic, adding new material on each of Wisconsin's fifty-three...
The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin
Voices of Early Settlers
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
From the mid-1830s through the 1850s, more than a half million people settled in Wisconsin. While traveling in ships and wagons, establishing homes, and forming new communities, these men, women, and children recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and newspaper articles. In their own words,...
The Story of Act 31
How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
From forward-thinking resolution to violent controversy and beyond.
Since its passage in 1989, a state law known as Act 31 requires that all students in Wisconsin learn about the history, culture, and tribal sovereignty of Wisconsin’s federally recognized tribes.
The Story of...
Wisconsin in Watercolor
The Life and Legend of Folk Artist Paul Seifert
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In 1867, German immigrant Paul Seifert settled in the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin and began capturing the distinctive farms and landscapes of his new home in vivid, detailed watercolors. Today, these paintings are coveted by American folk art collectors across the country, but Seifert’s...
Richard Bong
World War II Flying Ace
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Who would have imagined a farm boy from Wisconsin would be the greatest air hero of World War II? Richard Bong was an athletic and hard-working boy from northern Wisconsin who dreamed of flying from the first time a plane buzzed low over his family farm. When war broke out, he left behind a life of...
Fill 'er Up
The Glory Days of Wisconsin Gas Stations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Step back to the day when a visit to the gas station meant service with a smile, a wash of the windshield, and the cheerful question, "Fill 'er up?" Since their unremarkable beginnings as cheap shacks and curbside pumps at the dawn of the automobile age, gas stations have taken many forms...