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Voices & Votes: How Democracy Works in Wisconsin
Price $15.95
By: Jonathan Kasparek and Bobbie Malone Voices and Votes, the sixth book in the Wisconsin Historical Society's New Badger History Series for young readers, interweavs history and civics, providing a comprehensive overview of state, tribal, and local governance in Wisconsin.
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Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit
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By: David P. Thelen Wisconsin's "Fighting Bob" La Follette embodied the very heart of Progressive setiment and principle, an was a powerful force in shaping national political events between the eras of Populism and the New Deal.
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The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America
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By: Bernard A. Weisberger Dynastic political families have been an American tradition since the birth of the Republic. Indeed, a good part of our entire political history could be written simply by setting out the family stories of the Adamses, Roosevelts, Longs, and Kennedys. To that illustrious list must be added the La Follettes of Wisconsin, and they are brought vividly to life as never before in this collective biography by veteran journalist Bernard Weisberger.
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Wisconsin Votes: An Electoral History
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By: Robert Booth Fowler This is the first full history of voting in Wisconsin from statehood in 1848 to the present. Fowler both tells the story of voting in key elections across the years and investigates electoral trends and patterns over the course of Wisconsin’s history.
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How the States Got Their Shapes
Price $14.99
By: Mark Stein We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities—the entire state of Maryland(!)—have become so engrained that our map might as well be a giant jigsaw puzzle designed by Divine Providence. But that's where the real mystery begins. Every edge of the familiar wooden jigsaw pieces of our childhood represents a revealing moment of history and of, well, humans drawing lines in the sand.
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A Celebration of State Capitols
Price $54.95
By: Richard R. Gibson
State capitols are beautiful structures that reflect the personality of the state and its founders. No two capitols are the same. They are “the people’s house” and they belong to the citizens of their state. This vivid,
full-color on every page book is a tribute to these remarkable buildings—it is a striking scrapbook of architectural photos and facts, vintage capitol postcards, meaningful memorabilia and each states history and quest for statehood.
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Sing Not War: The Lives of Union And Confederate Veterans in the Gilded Age
Price $39.95
by James Marten
After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by non-veterans.
352 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 illus., notes, bibl., index
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Freedom Train North:Stories of the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin
Price $15.95
People running from slavery made many hard journeys to find freedom—on steamboats and in carriages, across rivers and in hay-covered wagons. Some were shot at. Many were chased by slave catchers. Others hid in tunnels and secret rooms. But these troubles were worth it for the men, women, and children who eventually reached freedom. Freedom Train North tells the stories of fugitive slaves who found help in Wisconsin.
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The Labor Movement In Wisconsin: A History
Price $24.95
By: Robert W. Ozanne
Wisconsin’s workers and their leaders have always been in the vanguard of those concerned with social justice, fair labor practices, humane working conditions, and political equality. Professor Ozanne’s book, based upon years of research in newspapers, manuscripts, and the archives of both labor and management, provides a broad overview of an important chapter in Wisconsin history.
Back in Print!
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Those Damned Black Hats!: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign
Price $19.95
By: Lance J. Herdegen
Read about the Iron Brigade, the heroic Wisconsin soldiers and their fellow western comrades as they bravely wage war beneath their unique black Hardee Hats. This is the first book-length account of their history making experiences during the fateful summer of 1863.
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Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade
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Ed. by: Alan Nolan & Sharon Eggleston Vipond Originally called the “Black Hat Brigade” because its soldiers wore the regular army’s dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, the Iron Brigade was the only all-Western brigade in the Eastern armies of the Union.
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The Legend of Old Abe: A Civil War Eagle
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By: Kathy-jo Wargin "The Legend of Old Abe" tells the story of one of the most famous mascots of the Civil War, Old Abe, a remarkable eagle from Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
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Iron Brigade: A Military History
Price $19.95
By: Alan T. Nolan This is the complete history of the most famous unit in the Union Army including observations on some of the major figures of the War – such as Abraham Lincoln and Generals Grant, McClellan, Hancock, and Doubleday – as they were viewed by the Iron Brigade.
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