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Birds of Wisconsin: Field Guide and Audio CD Set
Price $29.95
By Stan Tekiela
The best tools for enjoying birds in Wisconsin are available in one field-friendly package! This book and CD set are designed for each other with page numbers that correspond to CD track numbers.
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Fish Fry Night Milwaukee
Price $19.95
A film about the history and tradition of the Friday night fish fry and the people who make and enjoy them.
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American Experience: Earth Days
Price $24.99
Visually Stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement - from its post-war rustling in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carsons incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.
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American Experience: The Civilian Conservation Corps
Price $24.99
In March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at preoviding relief for one out of every four American workers who were unemployed. He proposed a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide jobs in natural resource conservation. Over the next decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation's forests, parks, and farms.
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Prohibition: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Price $39.99
Prohibition, a three-part documentary series, is the fascinating story of idealism, folly, and above all, unintended consequences. In 1920, after a century of debate, America amends The Constitution to ban the manufacture and sale of alcohol, turning millions of law-abiding citizens into lawbreakers overnight. Over the next 13 years. a society founded on individual freedom becomes a nation of scofflaws - and hypocrites.
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Bottoms Up DVD
Price $16.95
Bottoms Up showcases the rich architecture and history of Wisconsin breweries and bars. This documentary produced by Wisconsin Public Television explores the rise of 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 in Wisconsin. Bottoms Up is a companion documentary to the Wisconsin Historical Society Press book of same name.
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Fill'er Up DVD: The Glory Days of Wisconsin Gas Stations.
Price $19.95
A brand-new documentary produced by Wisconsin Public Television, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Historical Society, takes a look at vintage gas stations as icons of architecture, economics and pop culture. 30 minutes
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A Braves New World (DVD)
Price $24.95
Produced by William Povletich
When the Braves relocated from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953 it served as the catalyst for baseball to reexamine itself as a big business – resulting in a flurry of franchises relocating west, multi-league expansion and cities held hostage to build civically funded stadiums.
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Henry Aaron's Summer Up North DVD
Price $14.95
Produced and Directed By: William Povletich and Joshua Adams Henry Aaron's Summer Up North chronicles the living legend's struggles, setbacks and success in one important, if not trying, summer of minor league baseball in the northwoods community of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin WWII Stories (DVD)
Price $57.95
From the home front to the frontlines, Wisconsin's veterans tell the greatest stories of their lives.
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Wisconsin WWII Stories Part V (DVD)
Price $19.95
Legacy is the fifth in a series of programs capturing the stories of Wisconsin citizens in uniform and on the home front. These are the people whose prospects were changed by the war, and whose resolve adjusted the course for generations to come.<
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Hometown Stories: Green Bay
Price $19.95
Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Green Bay follows the growth of the city at the mouth of the Fox River from its early days to the present.
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