Wisconsin Historical Society Press: 190 books
Women's Wisconsin
From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium, a women's history anthology published on Women's Equality Day 2005, made history as the first single-source history of Wisconsin women. This unique tome features dozens of excerpts of articles as well as primary sources, such as women's...
The Flavor of Wisconsin
An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Wisconsin Historical Society published Harva Hachten's The Flavor of Wisconsin in 1981. It immediately became an invaluable resource on Wisconsin foods and foodways. This updated and expanded edition explores the multitude of changes in the food culture since the 1980s. It will find new audiences...
by Erika Janik
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. A Short History of Wisconsin recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible, historian Erika Janik covers several centuries of Wisconsin's...
by John D. Buenker
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy."
The...
Milwaukee in the 1930s
A Federal Writers Project City Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
What would it be like to take an intensive tour of Milwaukee as it was during the late 1930s—at the confluence of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the run-up to World War II? That is precisely what the participants in the Federal Writers Project did while researching their Guide to Milwaukee....
by Ethel Hurn
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
“There was too much to be done by the most of us, to keep the wolf from the door, to give way to our feelings, and it was better so. It gave us the feeling that we, too, although not enlisted in the ranks South, had a battle to fight at home on more than one line, and the worst of all was to keep...
by Patty Loew
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
"So many of the children in this classroom are Ho-Chunk, and it brings history alive to them and makes it clear to the rest of us too that this isn't just...Natives riding on horseback. There are still Natives in our society today, and we're working together and living side by side. So we need...
This Wicked Rebellion
Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Over one hundred and fifty years after it began, the Civil War still fascinates us—the vast armies marching to war, iconic leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, the drama of a nation divided. But the Civil War was also about individuals, the hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and boys...
by Sheila Terman Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Unlike the other cultural groups covered in the People of Wisconsin series, the Jews who have made their home in Wisconsin are united not by a single country of origin, but by a shared history and set of religious beliefs. This diverse group found their way to America’s heartland over several centuries...
Studying Wisconsin
The Life of Increase Lapham, early chronicler of plants, rocks, rivers, mounds and all things Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
With masterful storytelling, Bergland and Hayes demonstrate how Lapham blended his ravenous curiosity with an equable temperament and a passion for detail to create a legacy that is still relevant today.
—John Gurda
In this long overdue tribute to Wisconsin’s first scientist, authors Martha...
The Civil War Era, 1848-1873
History of Wisconsin, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This second volume in the History of Wisconsin series introduces us to the first generation of statehood, from the conversion of prairie and forests into farmland to the development of cities and industry. In addition, this volume presents a synthesis of the Civil War and Reconstruction era in Wisconsin....
Wisconsin on the Air
100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
On a wintry evening in 1917, university professor Earle Terry listened with guests as the popular music of the day filtered from a physics laboratory in Science Hall into a receiving set in his living room. Little did they know that one hundred years of public service broadcasting had just begun....
Odd Wisconsin
Amusing, Perplexing, and Unlikely Stories from Wisconsin's Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
While Bob La Follette's exploits as leader of progressive politics are legendary, his early morning exertions to save valuable government documents and executive department paintings during the disastrous 1904 capitol fire are largely unknown - until now. Odd Wisconsin captures the Wisconsin people,...
by David G. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
We know theirs to have been the hands that helped build the nation’s canals and railroads, the transport for so many immigrant groups making their way to the newly formed state of Wisconsin in the mid–nineteenth century. Yet the stories of Irish people in Wisconsin and their role in our state’s...