Books from Wisconsin Historical Society
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Flavor of Wisconsin for Kids: A Feast of History, with Stories and Recipes Celebrating the Land and People of Our...
By Bobbie Malone, Terese AllenDesigned for kids and adults to use together, The Flavor of Wisconsin for Kids draws upon the same source material that makes The Flavor of Wisconsin by Harva Hachten and Terese Allen a fascinating and authoritative document of the history ...
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Blaze Orange: Whitetail Deer Hunting in Wisconsin
By Travis DewitzA lone hunter in a tree stand as dawn arrives. A girl and her grandfather scanning a field in the fresh snow. Tired hunters laughing around the evening fire back at camp. These are snapshots of a culture touchstone.
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Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Freedom Seeker
By Ruby West Jackson, Walter T McDonaldFirst published in 2007, the groundbreaking book Finding Freedom provided the first narrative account of the life of Joshua Glover, the freedom seeker who was famously broken out of jail by thousands of Wisconsin abolitionists in 1854.
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More Than Words: A Memoir of a Writing Life
By Jerry Apps... The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County, on the problems posed by sand mining for the oilfracking industry, in 2014; Cold as Thunder, on climate change, in 2018. The most recent, Settlers Valley, tells the story of a group of disabled ...
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My Life with the Green & Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting
By Jessie GarciaIn My Life with the Green & Gold she brings fans to the sidelines at Lambeau Field, inside the locker room, aboard the Packers bus, and into the host’s chair at The Mike McCarthy Show.
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James Madison: Liberty's Advocate
By John P. KaminskiEditor John Kaminski has gathered a remarkable collection of quotations by and about James Madison for the third installment of his Word Portraits of America’s Founders series.
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The Farm on Badger Creek: Memories of a Midwest Girlhood
By Peggy Prilaman MarxenPeggy Prilaman Marxen grew up near the town of Meteor in northwestern Wisconsin's Sawyer County, isolated by geography yet surrounded by close-knit extended family.
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Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts
By Marnie O. MammingaBookended by the close of the logging era and the 1970s shift to modern lake homes, condos, and Jet Skis, the 1920s to 1960s period covered in these essays represents the golden age of Northwoods camps and cabins—a time when retreats such ...
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The Great Peshtigo Fire: Stories and Science from America’s Deadliest Fire
By Scott KnickelbineThis illuminating text covers a diverse range of topics that will enrich the reader’s understanding of the Peshtigo Fire, including the building and land-use practices of the time that made the area ripe for such a fire, the weather ...
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Skunk Hill: A Native Ceremonial Community in Wisconsin
By Robert A. BirminghamIn Skunk Hill, archeologist Robert A. Birmingham traces the largely unknown story of this community, detailing the role it played in preserving Native culture through a harsh period of US Indian policy from the 1880s to 1930s.
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Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town
By Robert A. Birmingham, Lynne GoldsteinBirmingham and Goldstein attempt to unlock some of the mysteries, providing insights and information about the group of people who first settled here in 1100 AD. Filled with maps, drawings, and photographs of artifacts, this small volume ...
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Patrick J. Lucey: A Lasting Legacy
By Dennis L. Dresang... Continuity and Change, 1940–1965, The History of Wisconsin, vol. 6 (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1988), 606. William Kraus, email to author, September 4, 2018. Kasparek, 85. Patrick J. Lucey, interview by John Powell ...
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The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
By John P. Kaminski, Merrill Jensen, Gaspare J. SaladinoThis volume covers the months of February and March, 1788. This documentary series is a research tool of remarkable power, an unrivaled reference work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the Constitution.
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One-Room Country Schools: History and Recollections
By Jerry AppsA popular collection of memories and recollections from people who learned at and taught in one-room schools in Wisconsin, including former pupil Jerry Apps, the book’s author.
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Gordon MacQuarrie: The Story of an Old Duck Hunter
By Keith CrowleyAs a result, his audience and his legend continue to grow. Gordon MacQuarrie: The Story of an Old Duck Hunter is the first full-length biography of this literary legend.
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The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
By John P. Kaminski, Merrill Jensen, Richard LefflerThis landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution'̕s progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher.
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Madeline Island & the Chequamegon Region
By John O. HolzhueterA new foreword by Steve Cotherman, director of the Madeline Island Museum, brings the text of this book up to date on the history of Madeline Island and the Chequamegon region from the days before the missions to present-day tourism.
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Steam & Cinders: The Advent of Railroads in Wisconsin
By Axel LorenzsonnBased on the author’s extensive research into the early history of Wisconsin’s rails, Steam and Cinders chronicles the boom and bust of the first railroads in the state, from the charters of the 1830s to the farm mortgages of the 1850s ...
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Germans in Wisconsin
By Richard H. ZeitlinIn this best-selling book, now with updated text and additional historical photographs, Richard H. Zeitlin describes the values and ideas the Germans brought with them from the Old Country; highlights their achievements on the farm, in the ...
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Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood
By Diane HollidayA Ho-Chunk Girlhood Diane Holliday. Nancy Oestreich Lurie To learn about Mountain WolfWoman's life in her own words, read Mountain Wolf Woman: Sister of Crashing Thunder;The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian edited by Nancy Oestreich ...