With 3,400 entries, this is the only comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography covering Wisconsin's 150-year history.
Carl Schurz, for one, was left with an embarrassing burden of debt when Watertown stopped growing and the lots in his subdivision remained unsold. ... Diary of Jabez Brown, September 18, 1858, in the Jabez Brown Papers.
At the level of the presidential campaign, they were opposed bitterly by William J. Campbell of Oshkosh, the founder of the ... a close ally of Goodland, and the leader—together with Philip La F ollette—of the MacArthur campaign forces.
Janik finds the story of a state not only in the broad strokes of immigration and politics, but also in the daily lives shaped by work, leisure, sports, and culture.
Wisconsin History Highlights encourages middle school and high school students and teachers to use Wisconsin topics and resources to illuminate their own research in American history as they create National History Day or other research ...
Stories of sportsmen past come to life in History Afield, an account of the many and varied sporting pursuits that are part of the Wisconsin tradition.
See also Brewing industry Beffel,J. M.: 169 Beggs,John I.: 154 Belgians: 181, 412—413 Belgium: 508, 559 Belle City Malleable Iron Company: 103 Beloit: and depression of 1893-1897, 12, 14; annexes farmland, 27; milk production, 53; ...
Oscar G. Mayer, son of Oscar F., graduated from Harvard in 1909 and joined the business. While visiting relatives in Madison in 1919, Oscar G. learned of a bankrupt farmer's cooperative meatpacking plant that was for sale.
The country to the Falls . . . is almost without any timber, and above that very uneven and rugged, and closely wooded with pines, beech, maple and birch. . . . The country from the Ottawaw Lakes to Lake Superior is in general very ...
Based on her research for her award-winning title for adults, "Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Survival," author Patty Loew has tailored this book specifically for young readers.
These stories connect geologic processes to the current landscape, as well as to the evolution of flora and fauna and development of human settlement and activities, for a deeper understanding of our state’s natural history.