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Picture of Old Farm: A History

Old Farm: A History

9780870206368
Paperback: $24.95
240 pages, 114 photos, 2 maps, 8 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204067

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$24.95
Picture of Gudrun’s Kitchen: Recipes from a Norwegian Family

Gudrun’s Kitchen: Recipes from a Norwegian Family

9780870204623
Paperback: $22.95
272 pages, 20 b/w photos, 8 x 8
ISBN: 9780870204623

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir

Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir

9780870205804
Hardcover: $22.95
248 pages, 48 b/w photos, 5 ½ x 8 ¼
ISBN: 9780870205804

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters

The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters

9780870206078
Hardcover: $22.95
160 pages
ISBN: 9780870206078

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir

Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir

9780870207099
Hardcover: $22.95
128 pages, 5½ x 8
ISBN: 9780870207099

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
One-Room Country Schools

One-Room Country Schools

9780870207525
Paperback: $19.95
248 pages, 91 b&w photos, 7 x 10
ISBN: 97808702075255

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$19.95
Picture of Hunting Camp 52: Tales from a North Woods Deer Camp

Hunting Camp 52: Tales from a North Woods Deer Camp

9780870207730
Paperback: $18.95
176 pages, 44 b&w photos and illus, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 9780870207730

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$18.95
Good Seeds book cover featuring image of point of view in a canoe

Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir

9780870207716
Hardcover: $19.95
96 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN:9780870207716

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$19.95
Picture of On a Clear Night - Essays from the Heartland

On a Clear Night - Essays from the Heartland

9780870208249
Paperback: $20.00
192 pages, 1 b&w photo, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 9780870208249

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$20.00
Old Farm Country Cookbook

Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus, and Memories

9780870208300
Seasoned with personal stories, menus, and family photos, Old Farm Country Cookbook recalls a time when electricity had not yet found its way to the farm, when making sauerkraut was a family endeavor, and when homemade ice cream tasted better than anything you could buy at the store.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$28.95
Picture of Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times

Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times

9780870208577
Hardcover: $22.95
256 pages, 39 b&w photos, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-857-7

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
Living a Country Year: Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days

Living a Country Year: Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days

9780870208614
Paperback: $15.95
172 pages, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-861-4

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$15.95
Picture of Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm

Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm

9780870208874
Hardcover: $22.95
160 pages, 5 1/2x 8
ISBN: 978-0-87020-887-4

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
The Land Still Lives

The Land Still Lives

9780870209062
Details:
Author: Jerry Apps
Hardcover
192 pages. 5.5 x 8.5"
ISBN: 9780870209062
Publication Date: Fall 2019
Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$25.00
My Mom cover with gold lettering. Light pink and white flower pattern with a black book spine.

My Mom: In Her Own Words

749190029605
Create a priceless keepsake for the whole family with this prompted interview book. Fill it with memories that will be loved for generations!
$10.95
Joyworks cover featuring author Mike Cudahy dressed in red and white button down shirt with black jacket. In front of a sailboat on the dock.

Joyworks: The Story of Marquette Electronics and Two Lucky Entrepreneurs

9780938076179
The story of how Michael Cudahy and his friend and partner Warren Cozzens created Marquette Electronics, one of the miracles of modern business.
$19.95
Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods Cover featuring four different groups of Milwaukee folks.

Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods

9780692451892
Based on the popular series of posters published by the City of Milwaukee in the 1980s, this book features both historical chronicles and contemporary portraits of 37 neighborhoods that emerged before World War II
$39.99
Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee cover featuring painting of Byron.

Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee

9780938076155
Written by two Milwaukee County historians, Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers, Jr, this full-length biography of one of Milwaukee's founding fathers follows Byron Kilbourn from his boyhood home in Ohio to Wisconsin.
$14.95
Useful Work for Unskilled Women book cover with various women making handcrafts

Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project

9780938076186
Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years which trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of a variety of handicrafts.
$24.95
Love and Other Letters book cover featuring two black and white photographs of individuals and different handwritten letters

Love and Other Letters

9780615379692
Nancy Oestreich Lurie found a shopping bag filled with letters from her mother's childhood, and they turned out to be historically enlightening and entertaining.
$14.95
The Making of Milwaukee book cover featuring bold title and images of many different Milwaukee natives

The Making of Milwaukee

9780692138373
Renowned historian John Gurda chronicles the development of a community whose past has produced one of the most livable big cities in America and, at the same time, created some daunting social and economic problems. Thoroughly illustrated. Fourth edition.
$35.00
Milwaukee at the Gathering of the Waters book cover in tan with picture of Milwaukee

Milwaukee at the Gathering of the Waters

9780938076063
A pictorial and entertaining commentary on the growth and development of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
$20.00
Greater Milwaukee's Growing Pains book cover

Greater Milwaukee's Growing Pains, 1950-2000: An Insider's View

9780938076162
This book examines the historic trends and battles which shaped Milwaukee, including the boundary wars of the 1950s and lawsuits over the polluting of Lake Michigan.
$19.95
An Industrial Heritage book cover featuring black background and red industrial equipment

An Industrial Heritage: Allis-Chalmers Corporation

9780938076025
Learn about the Allis-Chalmers Company, its early history and the personalities that led the business through industrial, economic, and political cycles.
$17.95
Book cover of "Little Hawk and Lone Wolf" with an illustration of a forest scene with a river running through it. A boy and wolf are on the left bank of the river.

Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir

9781976600029
Little Hawk shares his life journey—a story that is wise and irreverent, often funny, and deeply moving.
$20.00
Book cover of "More than Words" by Jerry Apps with a photo of Mr. Apps sitting outside in a rocking chair on green grass with a building behind with brown wood siding.

More Than Words: A Memoir of a Writing Life

9780870209970
Beginning with a boyhood surrounded by storytellers, Jerry Apps engages readers with stories about his path to becoming one of the Midwest’s best-known and most revered writers. A book for book lovers! Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
$24.95
Picture of Voices from Vietnam

Voices from Vietnam

9780870202872
An unforgettable collection of 174 letters and diary entries written by ninety-two Wisconsin men and women who served in Vietnam.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$18.95
	Book cover of "Obreros Unidos" with full page black and white picture of picketing farm workers and close-up of Jesus Salas in the foreground, microphone in hand. Title of the book in bold red font at the top.

Obreros Unidos: The Roots and Legacy of the Farmworkers Movement

9781976600074
A first-hand narrative of the fight for farmworkers' rights from celebrated labor leader, Jesus Salas. Young leaders founded Obreros Unidos (Workers United) to fight for fairness and respect, and to provide services to migrant families.
$24.95
Front cover of the Wisconsin Magazine of History with black and white image of 1940's baseball player, Sophie Kurys, one foot on the base and poised to throw the baseball.

Spring 2023 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

1000000409
In this Issue: The story of the All-American Girls Softball League; Raymond Hagen's memoir of growing up on Washington Island; The story of "Stambaugh's Treaty"; book excerpt from "Obreros Unidos: The Roots and Legacy of the Farmworkers Movement."
$10.00
Illustration of solar system on a yellow background with "Daughter in Retrograde" written in red on the bottom. Below that, the author's name, "Courtney Kersten" is written in black letters.

Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir

9780299317003
Courtney Kersten charts the uncertainty of her midwestern homeland by looking to the stars and the planets in this bittersweet and transformative memoir.
$24.95 $6.24
This cover features an image of a boy wearing red pants standing with a cow. The title, "THE LAND OF MILK AND UNCLE HONEY," is written in bold, black letters. Underneath that, the subtitle "MEMORIES FROM THE FARM OF MY YOUTH," is written in thin black letters. Underneath that is the author's names "ALAN GUEBERT WITH MARY GRACE FOXWELL," written in the same font.

The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey

9780252080944
A heartfelt and humorous memoir about the hard, laborious life on a farm in the early 1960s, a dairy operation on 700 acres of rich Illinois bottomland.
$17.95 $4.49
Book cover of "When is Daddy Coming Home" with two black and white photos of parents with young children. Title in black font on white background.

When is Daddy Coming Home? An American Family during World War II

9781976600401
A powerful memoir that illuminates life on the home front and the impact of World War II on an American family.
$19.95
Front cover of the book "I Live Underwater by Max Gene Nohl, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society.

I Live Underwater: The Thrilling Adventures of a Record-Breaking Diver, Treasure Hunter, and Deep-Sea Explorer

9781976600289
COMING SOON! — The highly anticipated posthumous memoir of thrill-seeking treasure hunter Max Nohl, widely regarded as the person who revolutionized deep-sea diving. After his sudden death in 1960, Nohl’s nearly complete manuscript went unpublished, until now.
$30.00