Wisconsin Historical Society Press: 190 books
Blaze Orange
Whitetail Deer Hunting in Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In Blaze Orange, photographer Travis Dewitz captures the joy, excitement, and camaraderie of deer hunting in Wisconsin. A lone hunter in a tree stand as dawn arrives. A girl and her grandfather scanning a field in the fresh snow. Tired hunters laughing around the evening fire back at camp. These are...
Tavern League
Portraits of Wisconsin Bars
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In Tavern League, photographer Carl Corey documents a unique and important segment of the Wisconsin community. Our bars are unique micro-communities, offering patrons a sense of belonging. Many of these bars are the only public gathering place in the rural communities they serve. These simple taverns...
by Susan Gibson Mikos
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In this all-new addition to the People of Wisconsin series, author Susan Mikos traces the history of Polish immigrants as they settled in America’s northern heartland. The second largest immigrant population after Germans, Poles put down roots in all corners of the state, from the industrial center...
For Love and Money
Portraits of Wisconsin Family Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In his follow-up to Tavern League: Portraits of Wisconsin Bars, Carl Corey turns his camera on Wisconsin family-owned businesses in existence fifty years or longer. The businesses portrayed here—bakeries and barbecue joints, funeral homes and furniture builders, cheesemakers, fishermen, ferry boat...
Bottoms Up
A Toast to Wisconsin's Historic Bars and Breweries
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Bottoms Up celebrates Wisconsin’s taverns and the breweries that fueled them. Beginning with inns and saloons, the book explores the rise of taverns and breweries, the effects of temperance and Prohibition, and attitudes about gender, ethnicity, and morality. It traces the development of the megabreweries,...
Electa Quinney
Stockbridge Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Electa Quinney loved to learn. Growing up in the early 1800s in New York, she went to some of the best boarding schools. There she learned how to read, write, and solve tough math problems—she even learned how to do needlework. Electa decided early on that she wanted to become a teacher so she could...
Casper Jaggi
Master Swiss Cheese Maker
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Have you ever wondered why Swiss cheese has holes? You'll find out in this story about a Swiss cheese maker named Casper Jaggi. Casper Jaggi was only six years old when his father taught him how to make cheese in the Swiss Alps. In 1913, Jaggi left Switzerland in search of new opportunities in the...
Life, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds
A Settlers’ Fortification of the Black Hawk War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Life, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds is an archaeological detective story illuminating the lives of white settlers in the lead-mining region during the tragic events of the historically important conflict known as the Black Hawk War.
Focusing on the strategically located Fort Blue...
Letters from the Boys
Wisconsin World War I Soldiers Write Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Words from the Wisconsin boys manning the trenches.
On the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the flood of American troops in Europe that would shift the tide of World War I in favor of the Allies, Letters from the Boys brings to life this terrible war as experienced by Wisconsinites writing...
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin
Nature’s Army at Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Between 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees, cutting trails, and reversing the effects of soil erosion. In his latest book, acclaimed environmental...
by Sergio González
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
From agricultural and factory workers to renowned writers and musicians, the Mexican immigrants who have made their homes in Wisconsin over the past century have become a significant and diverse part of this state’s cultural and economic history. Coming from a variety of educational and professional...
The Labor Movement in Wisconsin
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Wisconsin’s workers and their leaders have always been in the vanguard of those concerned with social justice, fair labor practices, humane working conditions, and political equality. Professor Ozanne’s book, based upon years of research in newspapers, manuscripts, and the archives of both labor and management, provides a broad overview of an important chapter in Wisconsin history.
Wheel Fever
How Wisconsin Became a Great Bicycling State
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
On rails-to-trails bike paths, city streets, and winding country roads, the bicycle seems ubiquitous in the Badger State. Yet there’s a complex and fascinating history behind the popularity of biking in Wisconsin—one that until now has never been told. Meticulously researched through periodicals...
The Bingo Queens of Oneida
How Two Moms Started Tribal Gaming in Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Before Indian casinos sprouted up around the country, a few enterprising tribes got their start in gambling by opening bingo parlors. A group of women on the Oneida Indian Reservation just outside Green Bay, Wisconsin, introduced bingo in 1976 simply to pay a few bills. Bingo not only paid the light...