Wisconsin Historical Society Press: 190 books
Once a Professor
A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Farm boy professor shares a life of lessons.
“I never wanted to be a professor,” writes Jerry Apps in the introduction to Once a Professor. Yet a series of unexpected events and unplanned experiences put him on an unlikely path—and led to a thirty-eight-year career at the University...
Badger Boneyards
The Eternal Rest of the Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
The bodies are buried, but the stories are not. From the ornate tombs of Milwaukee beer barons to displaced Chippewa graves and miniscule family plots, Badger Boneyards: The Eternal Rest of the Story unearths the stories of Wisconsin. Football great John Heisman is buried here, as is the state's smallest...
Six Generations Here
A Farm Family Remembers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Six Generations Here: A Farm Family Remembers
by Marjorie L. McLellan, with an essay by Kathleen Neils Conzen and a foreword by Dan Freas
Discover the story of the Krueger family, as images of farm, family, and landscape reveal the struggles of rural immigrant life in Wisconsin. Drawing on...
by John O. Holzhueter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
An updated reprint of the definitive history of a storied corner of the Upper Great Lakes—Madeline Island and the Chequamegon region on Wisconsin’s Lake Superior. A new foreword by Steve Cotherman, director of the Madeline Island Museum, brings the text of this book up to date on the history...
by Sheila Terman Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The story of Mai Ya Xiong and her family and their journey from the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand to a new life in Madison, Wisconsin, is extraordinary. Yet it is typical of the stories of the 200,000 Hmong people who now live in the United States and who struggle to adjust to American society...
Gaylord Nelson
Champion for Our Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Earth Day creator Gaylord Nelson comes to vivid life in this addition to the Badger Biographies series for young readers. Accessibly written and richly illustrated with historic images, Gaylord Nelson: Champion for Our Earth includes a glossary of terms, sidebars on World War II, DDT, and several...
by Josephine L. Harper
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In the mid-nineteenth century the Wisconsin Historical Society's first director, Lyman C. Draper, gathered outstanding materials such as the Daniel Boone papers, which include Draper's interviews with Boone's son, and the papers of Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. These two collections...
Cindy Bentley
Spirit of a Champion
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Cindy Bentley: Spirit of a Champion celebrates the life of one of Wisconsin's most inspirational leaders and activists. Born with an intellectual disability as the result of fetal alcohol syndrome, Cindy Bentley spent much of her childhood at the Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled....
The Great Peshtigo Fire
Stories and Science from America’s Deadliest Fire
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
On the night of October 8, 1871, a whirlwind of fire swept through northeastern Wisconsin, destroying the bustling frontier town of Peshtigo. Trees, buildings, and people burst into flames. Metal melted. Sand turned into glass. People thought the end of the world had come. When the “tornado of fire”...
Justice for All
Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Civil rights leader and legislator Lloyd A. Barbee frequently signed his correspondence with "Justice for All," a phrase that embodied his life’s work of fighting for equality and fairness. An attorney most remembered for the landmark case that desegregated Milwaukee Public Schools in...
Belle and Bob La Follette
Partners in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The most famous couple in Wisconsin politics, "Fighting Bob" La Follette and his wife, Belle Case La Follette, come to life in the pages of the newest addition to the Badger Biographies series for young readers. In an accessible format that includes historic images, a glossary of terms,...
Something for Everyone
Memories of Lauerman Brothers Department Store
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
In 1890 the Lauerman brothers opened a general store in the lumber-boom town of Marinette, Wisconsin. The business prospered, and soon the brothers abandoned their small quarters on Main Street for a magnificent department store on Dunlap Square in the heart of Marinette. Thanks to the Lauermans’...
Finding Freedom
The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
"Shall a man be dragged back to Slavery from our Free Soil, without an open trial of his right to Liberty?" —Handbill circulated in Milwaukee on March 11, 1854
In Finding Freedom, Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald provide readers with the first narrative account of the life...
Thousand-Miler
Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
In thirty-six thrilling days, Melanie Radzicki McManus hiked 1,100 miles around Wisconsin, landing her in the elite group of Ice Age Trail thru-hikers known as the Thousand-Milers. In prose that’s alternately harrowing and humorous, Thousand-Miler takes you with her through Wisconsin’s forests,...