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The Progressive Era, 1893-1914
Published in Wisconsin’s Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World’s Columbian Exposition and the First World War when…
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The Wheaton Franciscan Heritage
The Wheaton Franciscans were among many Catholic sisters who came to minister in this country in response to the needs of a growing immigrant population. This influx of pioneering women…
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UNDER THE FLAG OF THE NATION
From these diaries and letters of a soldier in the Union Army emerges a revealing portrait of their author, a man caught up in a life-and-death struggle of national import….
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Urbanization & Industrialization 1873-1893
Although the years from 1873-1893 lacked the well known, dramatic events of the periods before and after, this period presented a major transformation in Wisconsin’s economy. The third volume in…
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War, a New Era, and Depression, 1914-1940
The fifth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the years from the outbreak of World War I to the eve of American entry into World War II. In…
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Watertown and Codington County, South Dakota
The picturesque, gently rolling hills of northeastern South Dakota were formed by glaciers 20,000 years ago. A French cartographer first mapped the area in 1838, calling it Coteau des Prairies,-French…
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West Allis
Over the years, West Allis has progressed from a busy hamlet on the banks of Honey Creek to a stout industrial city. West Allis came of age in the early…
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Wind Cave National Park
Wind Cave is one of the longest and most complex caves in the world. Complete with more than 100 miles of surveyed cavern passageways below ground and 28,295 acres of…
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Wisconsin in the Civil War
The final book by Marquette University historian Frank L. Klement (1905-1994), this is a vivid chronological narrative of Wisconsin’s role in the pivotal event in American history. In this volume,…
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Wisconsin Revisited
This visual celebration of Wisconsin’s sesquicentennial pairs ninety-five new photos by some of the state’s finest documentary photographers and photojournalists. As curator of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin’s Visual…
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Women Remember the War, 1941-1945
Women Remember the War, 1941-1945 offers a brief introduction to the experiences of Wisconsin women in World War II through selections from oral history interviews in which women addressed issues…