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BC, HIS036050, HIS036090, Paperback - Trade, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Madison During the Civil War Era
Madison photographer John S. Fuller made these unique photographs between 1860 and 1863, which lay forgotten in a Texas collection until their discovery in 1996. The small but invaluable collection…
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BB, Hardcover, HIS036090, SOC007000, soc015000, Southern Illinois University Press
Making the Heartland Quilt
In Making the Heartland Quilt, Douglas K. Meyer reconstructs the settlement patterns of thirty-three immigrant groups and confirms the emergence of discrete culture regions and regional way stations. Meyer argues…
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BC, HIS036090, Paperback - Trade, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Odd Wisconsin
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…
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BC, HIS036050, HIS036090, Paperback - Trade, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Old Abe the War Eagle
The story of Old Abe, the bald eagle that became the mascot of the Eighth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. It is also the story of the men among whom…
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ARC020000, ARC024010, Arcadia Publishing, Arcadia Publishing Inc., BC, HIS036090, PHO001000
Rapid City
With the opening of the Black Hills region of South Dakota due to the discovery of gold in 1874, the business-savvy founders of Rapid City, in 1876, saw the potential…
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BC, BIO006000, HIS036090, HIS043000, Holocaust, Paperback - Trade, Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Remembering the Holocaust
This moving documentary volume brings together fourteen interviews of Holocaust survivors who later settled in Wisconsin. With words and photographs they describe the richness of pre-war Jewish life in Europe;…
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Arcadia Publishing, Arcadia Publishing Inc., BC, HIS036090, PHO019000, PHO023100, TRV019000
Rochester
In 1869 The Minnesota Guide summed up Rochester, Minnesota as “a fine business point.” Today Rochester is not only a fine business point but also a world-class medical center, a…
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Arcadia Publishing, Arcadia Publishing Inc., BC, HIS036090, NAT011000, TRV018000, TRV025020
Salt Fork State Park
Salt Fork State Park is Ohio’s largest park, covering about 20,000 acres of rolling, forested terrain just eight miles northeast of Cambridge. Despite the park’s timeless wilderness feel, for almost…
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Arcadia Publishing, Arcadia Publishing Inc., BC, BIO003000, BUS057000, BUS077000, HIS036090
Schaumburg’s Woodfield Mall
Woodfield Mall opened on September 9, 1971. Built in the village of Schaumburg, Woodfield Mall was a major factor in the rise of that city and all of Chicago’s northwest…
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BB, Cloth Over Boards, HIS036090, Southern Illinois University Press, TRU000000, TRU002000
Shattered Sense of Innocence
In October 1955, three Chicago boys were found murdered, their bodies naked and dumped in a ditch in Robinson Woods on the city’s Northwest Side. A community and a nation…