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Green Bay Packers: Trials, Triumphs and Tradition
Price $26.95
By: William Povletich
Green Bay Packers: Trials, Triumphs, and Tradition tells the improbable story of professional football’s most iconic team, and along the way gives a unique window into the rise of modern professional sports. As the NFL has evolved into a financial juggernaut, the Green Bay Packers, with more than 112,158 stockholders, stand alone as the only professional sports franchise owned by fans, thus providing the only public record of how a sports team is run.
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The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed
Price $18.95
By: Milton J. Bates
The Bark River Chronicles reports one couple’s journey by canoe from the river’s headwaters to its confluence with the Rock River and several miles farther downstream to Lake Koshkonong. Along the way, it tells the stories of Ice Age glaciation, the effigy mound builders, the Black Hawk War, early settlement and the development of waterpower sites, and recent efforts to remove old dams and mitigate the damage done by water pollution and invasive species.
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This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home
Price $22.95
By: John Zimm
Over one hundred and fifty years after it began, the Civil War still fascinates us—the vast armies marching to war, iconic leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, the drama of a nation divided. But the Civil War was also about individuals, the hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and boys who fought and died on either side and the families and friends left at home. This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home tells this other side of the story. Drawing from over 11,000 letters in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Civil War collection, it gives a unique and intimate glimpse of the men and women who took part in the War for the Union.
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The Great Peshtigo Fire: Stories and Science from America’s Deadliest Firestorm
Price $15.95
By: Scott Knickelbine
On the night of October 8, 1871, a whirlwind of fire swept through northeastern Wisconsin, destroying the bustling frontier town of Peshtigo. The Great Peshtigo Fire: Stories and Science from America’s Deadliest Firestorm explores the history, science, and legacy of the 1871 Peshtigo Fire at a fourth-grade reading level.
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Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars & Breweries
Price $29.95
By: Jim Draeger & Mark Speltz, Photographs By: Mark Fay
Bottoms Up celebrates Wisconsin’s taverns and the breweries that fueled them. Beginning with inns and saloons, the book explores the rise of taverns and breweries, the effects of temperance and Prohibition, and attitudes about gender, ethnicity, and morality. It traces the development of the megabreweries, dominance of the giants, and the emergence of microbreweries. Contemporary photographs of unusual and distinctive bars and breweries of all eras, historical photos, postcards, advertisements, and breweriana illustrate the story of how Wisconsin came to dominate brewing—and the place that bars and beer hold in our social and cultural history.
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Main Street Ready-Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin
Price $18.95
By: Arnold R. Alanen and Joseph A. Eden
Main Street Ready-Made examines Greendale as an outgrowth of public policy, an experiment in social engineering, and an organic community that eventually evolved to embrace a huge shopping mall, condominiums, and expensive homes while still preserving much of the architecture and ambiance of the original village. A snapshot of 1930s idealism and ingenuity, Main Street Ready-Made makes a significant contribution to the history of cities, suburbs, and social planning in mid-century America.
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Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home of Love and Loss
Price $35.00
By: Ron McCrea
Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs—many of which have never before been published—author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, which would be the architect’s principal residence for the rest of his life. Photos taken by Wright’s associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction and illustrate Wright’s own recollections of the first summer there and the craftsmen who worked on the site.
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The U.S.S. Wisconsin: A History of Two Battleships
Price $12.95
By: Richard Zeitlin
Battleships were instrumental in America's rise to world dominance at the end of the 19th century. Representing a major advance in American naval technology, the Wisconsin both demonstrated American strength in the Pacific and served at the setting for peace talks between Panama and Colombia when the former gained indpendence in 1903.
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This Superior Place: Stories of Bayfield and the Apostle Islands
Price $19.95
Pre-Order Now! Available May 2013
By: Dennis McCann
Picturesque little Bayfield on Lake Superior is Wisconsin’s smallest city by population but one of its most popular visitor destinations. This book captures those unique qualities that keep tourists coming back year after year and offers a historically reliable look at the community as it is today and how it came to be. Abundantly illustrated with both historical and contemporary images, This Superior Place showcases, as author Dennis McCann writes, “a community where the past was layered with good times and down times, where natural beauty was the one resource that could not be exhausted by the hand of man, and where history is ever present.”
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Poles In Wisconsin
Price $9.95
By: Susan Gibson Mikoś
In this all-new addition to the People of Wisconsin series, author Susan Gibson Mikoś traces the history of Polish immigrants as they settled in America’s northern heartland.
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Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir
Price $22.95
Now Available!
By: Jerry Apps
Polio was epidemic in the United States in the 1916. By the 1930s, quarantines and school closings were becoming common, as isolation was one of the only ways to fight the disease. The Salk vaccine was not available until 1955; in that year, Wisconsin’s Fox River valley had more polio cases per capita than anywhere in the United States. In his most personable book, Jerry Apps, who contracted polio at age twelve, reveals how the disease affected him physically and emotionally, profoundly influencing his education, military service, and family life and setting him on the path to becoming a professional writer.
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Something for Everyone: Memories of Lauerman Brothers Department Store
Price $22.95
Pre-Order Now! Available August 2013
By: Michael Leannah
Something for Everyone traces the history of the Lauerman enterprise and its importance to the community of Marinette and dozens of counties in northern Wisconsin and the UP. A Marinette native and onetime Lauermans employee himself, author Michael Leannah draws on his extensive research and interviews with former staff and customers to create a unique tapestry of family, business, and community history. He takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the store’s most memorable and delightful features, from the plethora of merchandise offered to the record-listening booths to the famous “frosted malt” ice cream cones.
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Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal (Revised 2nd Edition)
Price $24.95
Pre-Order Now! Available August 2013
By: Patty Loew
Forewords by Paul DeMain and J. P. Leary
From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, the best-selling Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal explores Wisconsin’s rich Native tradition. This long-awaited revised edition includes new material reflecting contemporary historical events and initiatives of the twenty-first century, covering the economic, social, and environmental advancements of the Native communities. New chapters are devoted to discussions of urban Indians and the Brothertown Indian Nation.
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Creating Dairyland: Audio Book
Price $34.95
Audio Book
The story of dairying in Wisconsin is the story of how our very landscape and way of life were created. By making cows the center of our farm life and learning how to care for them, our ancestors launched a revolution that changed much more than the way farmers earned their livings - it changed us.
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Jens Jensen: Writings Inspired by Nature
Price $24.95
By: William H. Tishler
Jens Jensen (1860–1951) was one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects and a pioneering conservationist. During his long and productive career, this Danish-born visionary worked for and with some of the country’s most prominent citizens and architects, including Henry Ford, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. He became internationally renowned for his design of landscapes throughout the Midwest and beyond, his contributions to the American conservation movement, and his design philosophy that emphasized the significance of nature in people’s lives. He found inspiration in the landscape, particularly the plants native to a region, and was an environmentalist long before the term became popular.
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Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave, AUDIO BOOK
Price $34.95
By Jim Fleming
A Chapter A Day™ selection from Wisconsin Public Radio!
Finding Freedom provides readers with the first narrative account of the life of Joshua Glover, the runaway slave who was famously broken out of jail by thousands of Wisconsin abolitionists in 1854. Employing original research, the authors chronicle Glover’s days as a slave in St. Louis, his violent capture and thrilling escape in Milwaukee, his journey on the Underground Railroad, and his 33 years of freedom in rural Canada.
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