Wisconsin Historical Society Press: 190 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger
provide an insider's view of congressional, labor and party politics as well as a glimpse into the marriage and family life of a prominent Wisconsin couple. Victor Berger helped create a well-organized political machine in Milwaukee that engineered...
by Sheila Terman Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This Badger Bio shares the story of author Sterling North – his adventures and misadventures as a young boy growing up in Edgerton, Wisconsin. Young readers will learn how North’s early experience in Wisconsin influenced him in writing some of his best loved children’s books – such as Rascal...
One Room Schools
Stories from the Days of 1 Room, 1 Teacher, 8 Grades
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Have you ever wondered what it was like to attend a one-room school, to be in the same classroom as your older brother or younger sister, or to have your teacher live with your family for part of the school year?
In One Room Schools, Susan Apps-Bodilly chronicles life in Wisconsin’s early...
Cris Plata
From Fields to Stage // Del Campo al Escenario
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Raised among Mexican American farmworkers, singer-songwriter Cris Plata spoke Spanish, ate Mexican food, and heard Mexican music played by family and friends. He also spoke English, went to school with mostly white children for at least half the year, and grew more familiar with mainstream American...
Juliette Kinzie
Frontier Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In 1830, a young woman named Juliette Magill Kinzie moved from her fancy home in Connecticut to a rustic log cabin in what would later be called Wisconsin. Juliette lived there with her husband, John, who worked as an Indian agent at Fort Winnebago, one of Wisconsin’s earliest settlements. While...
Out of the Northwoods
The Many Lives of Paul Bunyan, With More Than 100 Logging Camp Tales
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Every American has heard of the lumberjack hero Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. For 100 years his exploits filled cartoons, magazines, short stories, and children's books, and his name advertised everything from pancake breakfasts to construction supplies. By 1950 Bunyan was a ubiquitous icon of...
The Silver Man
The Life and Times of Indian Agent John Kinzie
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
In The Silver Man: The Life and Times of John Kinzie, readers witness the dramatic changes that swept the Wisconsin frontier in the early and mid-1800s, through the life of Indian agent John Harris Kinzie. From the War of 1812 and the monopoly of the American Fur Company, to the Black Hawk War and...
Walking Home Ground
In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
When longtime author Robert Root moves to a small town in southeast Wisconsin, he gets to know his new home by walking the same terrain traveled by three Wisconsin luminaries who were deeply rooted in place—John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and August Derleth. Root walks with Muir at John Muir State Natural...
A Nation within a Nation
Voices of the Oneidas in Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
For the first time, the Oneidas of Wisconsin tell their own story in this richly diverse, authoritative contemporary history. A Nation within a Nation gathers first-person accounts, biographical essays, and scholars’ investigations in a sweeping and provocative consideration of the period of 1900-1969.
by Paul W. Glad
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The fifth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the years from the outbreak of World War I to the eve of American entry into World War II. In between, the rise of the woman's movement, the advent of universal suffrage, and the "great experiment" of Prohibition are explored, along...
Main Street Ready-Made
The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
The dream of the suburb is an old one in America. For more than a century, city dwellers have sought to escape the crowding and pollution of industrial centers for the quiet streets and green spaces on their fringes. In the 1930s, that dream inspired the largest migration of Americans in the twentieth...
The Quiet Season
Remembering Country Winters
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
The Quiet Season
Remembering Country Winters
Jerry Apps
“As I think back to the days of my childhood, the frost-covered windows in my bedroom,
the frigid walks to the country school, the excitement of a blizzard, and a hundred other memories, I realize that these experiences left an indelible...
Blue Men and River Monsters
Folklore of the North
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The north is a treasure trove of folklore. From magical creatures of the old country to legends of the mysterious and macabre, such lore is a fascinating record of the stories people held on to and the customs, foods, and cures that filled their lives. Collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal...
Skunk Hill
A Native Ceremonial Community in Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Rising above the countryside of Wood County, Wisconsin, Powers Bluff is a large outcrop of quartzite rock that resisted the glaciers that flattened the surrounding countryside. It is an appropriate symbol for the Native people who once lived on its slopes, quietly resisting social forces that would...