Wisconsin History

 

A Short History of Wisconsin by Erika Janik Paperback from Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Wisconsin: A History by Robert C. Nesbit Paperback from University of Wisconsin Press

It Happened in Wisconsin (It Happened In Series) by Michael Bie Paperback from TwoDot

They Came to Wisconsin (New Badger History) by Julia Pferdehirt Paperback from Wisconsin Historical Society

Germans in Wisconsin (Ethnic Series) by Richard H. Zeitlin Paperback from Wisconsin Historical Society Press

The Wisconsin Frontier (A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier) by Mark Wyman Paperback from Indiana University Press

Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas by Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild Hardcover from University of Wisconsin Press

Wisconsin History Highlights: Delving into the Past by Jonathan Kasparek, Bobbie Malone, Erica Schock Hardcover from Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal by Patty Loew Paperback from Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy Paperback from University of New Mexico Press

Atlantis in Wisconsin: New Revelations About the Lost Sunken City
by Frank Joseph
Paperback: 204 pages
Galde Press, Inc.; ISBN: 1880090120; (December )
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Birds of Wisconsin : Field Guide
by Stan Tekiela

Breweries of Wisconsin
by Jerry Apps
Listed under Brewing

Chippewa Treaty Rights: The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa Indians in Historical Perspective
by Ronald N. Satz, et al
Listed under Chippewa Indians

Double Take: A Rephotographic Survey of Madison, Wisconsin
by Zane Williams
Hardcover from University of Wisconsin Press

The Golden Age of Wisconsin: Auto Racing
by Dale Grubba
(Paperback)

Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
by William Lutz, Denise Gess
Book Description: A riveting account of a monster firestorm -- the rarest kind of catastrophic fire -- and the extraordinary people who survived its wrath.

On October 8, 1871 -- the same night as the Great Chicago Fire -- an even deadlier conflagration was sweeping through the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, 260 miles north of Chicago. The five-mile-wide wall of flames, borne on tornado-force winds of 100 miles per hour, tore across more than 2,400 square miles of land, obliterating Peshtigo in less than one hour and killing more than 2,000 people.

Firestorm at Peshtigo places the reader at the center of the blow-out. Through accounts of newspaper publishers Luther Noyes and Franklin Tilton, lumber baron Isaac Stephenson, parish priest Father Peter Pernin, and meteorologist Increase Lapham -- the only person who understood the unusual and dangerous nature of this fire -- Denise Gess and William Lutz re-create the story of the people, the politics, and the place behind this monumental natural disaster, delivering it from the lost annals of American history.

Drawn from survivors' letters, diaries, interviews, and local newspapers, Firestorm at Peshtigo tells the human story behind America's deadliest wildfire.
Hardcover from Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

From Far North Norway
by Eunice Kanne, Maurice Crownhart (Editor)
Listed under Wisconsin Genealogy

The Garden Book for Wisconsin
by Melinda Myers

The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait
by Glenway Wescott, Sargent Bush
"The Grandmothers is made out of thick, rich layers of human problems and personalities. To read The Grandmothers is to be washed by waves of cleansing pity."-Harry Salpeter, New York World, 1927 
Paperback from University of Wisconsin Press

The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account
by Peter Pernin
Paperback from University of Wisconsin Press

History Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin's Historical Markers
by Sarah Davis McBride
Paperback from State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Indians from New York in Wisconsin & Elsewhere: A Genealogy Reference
by Toni J. Prevost

Images of Faith: The Churches of Kewaunee County
by Mary Haegele

Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal
by Patty Loew
Paperback from Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Indian Mounds of Wisconsin
by Robert A. Birmingham, Leslie E. Eisenberg
Paperback from University of Wisconsin Press

Lost Pyramids of Rock Lake: Wisconsins Sunken Civilization
by Frank Joseph
Paperback from Galde Press, Inc.
1992

The Making of Milwaukee
by John Gurda
Hardcover from Milwaukee County Historical Society

Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960: A Study of Tradition and Change
by Robert E. Bieder
(Paperback)

New Pioneers in the Heartland: Hmong Life in Wisconsin
by Jo Ann Koltyk, Nancy Foner
Paperback from Pearson Allyn & Bacon

 

Norwegians in Wisconsin (Ethnic Series) by Richard J. Fapso Paperback from University of Wisconsin Press

Old Peninsula Days: Tales and Sketches of the Door County Peninsula
by Hjalmar Rued Holand

The Oneida Indian Journey: From New York to Wisconsin, 1784-1860
by L. Gordon McLester, et al.
Listed under Oneida Indians

Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance
by Warrington Colescott, Arthur Hove
(Hardcover)

Stalag Wisconsin: Inside WWII Prisoner of War Camps
by Betty Cowley
Paperback from Badger Books Inc./ Waubesa Press
24 January, 2002

Six Generations Here: A Farm Family Remembers
by Marjorie L. McLellan, Kathleen Neils Conzen
Listed under Wisconsin Genealogy

The 24th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment
by William J. K. Beaudot
Listed under Civil War Wisconsin

Wildflowers Of Wisconsin
by Stan Tekiela

Wisconsin Death Trip
by Michael Lesy, Warren Susman (Preface)
The last decade of the 19th century was, for some Americans, a time when great fortunes were to be made. For many others, however, the period was a time of economic dislocation, when the gap between city and countryside, rich and poor, grew ever wider. As the Indian Wars ended and the Gilded Age extended into America's first Imperial Age, social critics such as Mark Twain and William Dean Howells began to examine the dark side of the American dream: violence, poverty, degenerate behavior, suicide, and insanity. 

In the late 1960s, another desperate time, historian Michael Lesy took a long look at fin-de-siècle America. Examining a collection of several thousand glass plate negatives and historical documents from Jackson County, Wisconsin, he concocted a sprawling treatise on a past that had been willfully forgotten, a brooding rejoinder to Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology. First published in 1973, Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip, now reissued in a handsome paperbound edition, became a key text of the counterculture, a book to shelve alongside Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Custer Died for Your Sins--and it sometimes reads like a hip product of its time. Lesy documents the unsettling record of one small corner of rural America, turning up accounts of barn burnings, attacks by gangs of armed tramps, threatening and obscene letters, death by diphtheria and smallpox (the Wisconsin townsfolk had, some years, to attend several funerals a week), alcoholism, madness, business and bank failures, and even a case or two of witchcraft. 

After reading Lesy's texts and viewing the sometimes unsettling images he's turned up, you would be forgiven for thinking that no one in small-town Wisconsin in our great-great-grandparents' time was well-adjusted--which is, of course, not the case. Hyperbole notwithstanding, this is a remarkable study, one that Lesy himself rightly calls an experiment in both history and alchemy. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Paperback: 264 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.63 x 8.51 x 11.09
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press; (April )
ISBN: 0826321933

The Wisconsin Frontier (History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier)
by Mark Wyman
Hardcover from Indiana University Press

Wisconsin Indians
by Nancy Oestreich Lurie, Francis Paul Prucha
Paperback from Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Wisconsin Lighthouses: A Photographic & Historical Guide
by Ken Wardius, Barb Wardius, Elaine Wardius
Paperback from Prairie Oak Press

Wisconsin Quilts: Stories in the Stitches
by Ellen Kort, et al
Listed under Quilting

Wisconsin Underground: A Guide to Caves, Mines, and Tunnels In and Around the Badger State
by Doris Green
Listed under Caving

Wisconsin's Past and Present: A Historical Atlas
by Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild, Wisconsin Cartographers Guild, William Cronon
Hardcover from University of Wisconsin Press

 

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