Books from Wisconsin Historical Society

Voices & Votes: How Democracy Works in Wisconsin
By Jon Kasparek, Bobbie Malone, Jonathan Kasparek
... interests court of appeals The second level in the state judicial system debate (duh bate) A discussion between sides with different points of view debated Discussed from different viewpoints defendant The person accused of breaking ...
Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir
By Thomas Pecore Weso
Weso uses humor to tell his own story as a boy learning to thrive in a land of icy winters and summer swamps. With his rare perspective as a Native anthropologist and artist, he tells a poignant personal story in this unique book.
Continuity and Change, 1940-1965: History of Wisconsin
By William F. Thompson
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.
Madison in the Sixties
By Stuart D. Levitan
... created and run by Ruth B. Doyle, begins classes.117 September 21—NAACP national field director Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights worker Medgar Evers, tells a Union Theater audience of about five hundred that racism must ...
War, a New Era, and Depression, 1914-1940
By Paul W. Glad
3" Robert L. Morlan, Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, I915—1922 (Minneapolis, 1955; reprinted, Westport, ... 238—248, 256—278; Herbert E. Gaston, The Nonpartisan League (New York, 1920; reprinted, Westport, Connecticut, ...
Voices and Votes: How Democracy Works in Wisconsin. Teacher's guide and student materials
By Sarah Clement, Bobbie Malone, Jonathan Kasparek
Voices and Votes: How Democracy Works in Wisconsin; Teacher's Guide and Student Materials features several activities for each chapter to engage students in a more in-depth exploration of the book.
The Capital Times: A Proudly Radical Newspaper’s Century Long Fight for Justice and for Peace
By John Nichols, Dave Zweifel
... 37 Johnson, Dick, 46 Johnson, Hiram, 239 Johnson, Lester, 245, 245 Johnson, Lyndon B., 1, 2, 5, 16, 20, 77, 174, 177, 181, 182, 199–201, 208–210, 213, 233, 285 Johnson, Robb, 155, 156, 157–159 Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 64 Jones, Joseph, ...
Milwaukee Braves: Heroes and Heartbreak
By William Povletich
(DAVID KLUG COLLECTION) "Spahn and Burdette had been so good for so long that people didn't realize how much Buhl meant to us. ... Baseball's twenty—third annual All—Star Game was held in Washington, D.C.'s Griffith Park.
Wisconsin in the Civil War: The Home Front and the Battle Front, 1861-1865
By Frank Klement
The Home Front and the Battle Front, 1861-1865 Frank Klement. Turner's Gap: ... 117 Vallandigham, Clement L.: Q Van Brunt Company (Horicon): m Van Dorn, Earl: Q, Q Vicksburg campaign: ®, ®, Q—il; pictured, m Vilas, Levi B.: 3 Voting: by ...
Great Ships on the Great Lakes: A Maritime History
By Bobbie Malone, Cathy Green, Jefferson J Gray
A Maritime History Cathy Green, Jefferson J Gray, Bobbie Malone. Iroquois (ir uh kwoi): a tribe that lived on the shores of Lake Ontario Oliver Hazard Perry won over the British in the Battle ...
Damn the Old Tinderbox!: Milwaukee’s Palace of the West and the Fire that Defined an Era
By Matthew J. Prigge
Gillon had sprinted to the house after hearing the fire bells. His boys roomed on the hotel's sixth floor. “My boys,” he cried. “Have my boys gotten out?”45 “All the help are out,” Delaney told him as continued to gather up cash and ...
A City At War: Milwaukee Labor During World War II
By Richard L. Pifer
For information on the dispute at A. O. Smith, see: Labor Press, June 7, 1945, 1; and Werner J. Schaefer to Marsh (no last name but may be associated with IUOE president Maloney), March 20, 1945; records of the International Union of ...
Make Way for Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War
By Jeff Kannel
F , Thirty - First WI Inf Collins , George 11/27/63 Brownsville , TX MO 7/14/65 Co. D , Twentieth WI Inf Comer , Charles 3/17/63 none listed MO 11/24/65 Co. A , Thirteenth WI Inf Cotton , Albert 3/17/63 none listed deserted 5/26/64 ...
From Exploration to Statehood: History of Wisconsin
By Alice E. Smith
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 ...
The Wisconsin Capitol: Stories of a Monument and Its People
By Michael Edmonds
Tommy Thompson was part of a wave of conservatism that swept the nation in the 1980s and changed the state's political landscape as much as La Follette progressivism had done a century earlier. Thompson was channeling the Reagan ...
Silver Screens: A Pictorial History of Milwaukee's Movie Theaters
By Larry Widen, Judi Anderson
... Truman Schroeder, retired Marcus Theatres executive; the late Milton Schultz, former theater employee; Neal Seegert, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS son of the owners of the Regent Theater; the vii Silver i-xiv 9/14/06 12:54 PM Page vii.
Never Curse the Rain: A Farm Boy’s Reflections on Water
By Jerry Apps
She had in her arms bottles of homemade root beer that she and Pa had made early in the spring. The Hires Company made a root beer extract that, when mixed with water and sugar, resulted in a fine root beer drink.
The Wisconsin Story: 150 People, Places, and Turning Points that Shaped the Badger State
By Dennis McCann
Fell. into. Iran-Contra. Mess. The scandal that came to be known as Iran-Contra began when a Wisconsin man—just a country boy, he called himself —fell from the Nicaraguan sky and into the world headlines. “Everyone knows my name from ...
The Labor Movement in Wisconsin: A History
By Robert W. Ozanne
Along the Fox River, papermaking gradually moved in on the sites of the vacated gristmills; along the Wisconsin, the Eau Claire, ... But the paper mills, with their huge factories and highly skilled work force, were permanent residents.
Justice for All: Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee
By Lloyd A Barbee
... 183 Coggs, Isaac N., x, 22–26, 58, 178 Coggs, Marcia P., x, 29, 178, 182, 183, 184 Coggs-Jones, Chloe, 182 Coggs-Jones, Davinia, 182 Coggs-Jones, Priscilla, 182 colleges and universities: and costs of non-instructional activities, ...